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Released today was a new version of the Raspberry Pi OS (nee Raspbian) with various improvements over its prior update from March...

Raspberry Pi OS Updated With Faster OpenSSH, Software Upgrades  Phoronix

How to Fix Line Breaks in Text Files Using Dos2Unix and Unix2Dos  MUO - MakeUseOf

OpenZFS 2.1-rc6 Released - Will Now Scale Worker Threads With CPU Core Count  Phoronix

Yet another release candidate of OpenZFS 2.1 is now available for testing and this time around there are some interesting changes to note...

Linux Operating System Market Investment Analysis | Arch Linux, Elementary Inc, Debian, IBM Corporation – The Manomet Current  The Manomet Current

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U - Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 Linux Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

While yesterday was the Threadripper 3990X Windows 10 vs. Linux benchmarks, with recently picking up the $450 Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15 with Ryzen 5 5500U, prior to wiping the Windows 10 preload I ran some benchmarks to see how that default Microsoft Windows 10 Home installation compared to a fresh install of Ubuntu 21.04 for maximizing the performance potential of this budget six core / twelve thread laptop.

Which Is the Best Linux OS: Fedora or Ubuntu?  MUO - MakeUseOf

Researchers Warn of Facefish Backdoor Spreading Linux Rootkits  The Hacker News

Chrome 91 released this week with WebAssembly SIMD by default, new JavaScript APIs, and other improvements. Plus there are also some performance improvements too, here are some benchmarks...

Chrome 91 Benchmarks On Linux Showing Off Even Better Performance  Phoronix

Last year we wrote about Dell working on a hardware privacy driver for Linux as with 2021 laptops they are beginning to add hardware-based privacy buttons for disabling microphone and camera support. That Dell Hardware Privacy platform support is now set to be introduced to the mainline kernel with Linux 5.14...

Dell Hardware Privacy Support Slated For Linux 5.14  Phoronix

The Linux 5.14 kernel this summer is going to bring a reworked user-space API for Intel's DG1 graphics card and their future discrete graphics offerings. This change to the Intel kernel graphics driver's user-space API, which is currently flagged as "broken" until it has been proven sufficiently capable for user-space needs and stable, is principally needed for handling of device local memory (dedicated vRAM)...

Linux 5.14 To Bring Reworked User-Space API For Intel Discrete Graphics  Phoronix

Major open source projects abandon Freenode following hostile takeover  TechRadar

Major open source projects abandon Freenode following hostile takeover  Techradar

Added to the Arch Linux install media back in April was Archinstall as a quick/easy installer for the Linux distribution. Released today is now Archinstall 2.2 as the latest advancement for this convenient Arch Linux installer...

Archinstall 2.2 Released For Improving This Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer  Phoronix