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It's 2021 and proposed patches by upstream developers would finally remove Linux's legacy IDE driver code...

Linux Systems Administrator  IT-Online

How to Take and Edit Screenshots in Ubuntu With Shutter  MUO - MakeUseOf

For a long while now Linux kernel developers have discusses the prospects of optionally allowing the Rust language to be used for new device drivers within the Linux kernel areas and other areas within the kernel for this language that prides itself on safety and performance. As the first baby step towards that dream, initial Rust support appeared this week in the Linux-Next tree...

Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next  Phoronix

Recently Ubuntu maker Canonical committed to using Google's Flutter user-interface toolkit as its "default choice" for their mobile and desktop applications moving forward. There is now an Ubuntu Blog post further detailing their interests in Flutter...

Canonical Continues To Talk Up Google's Flutter UI Toolkit  Phoronix

10 Best File Managers for Linux Power Users  MUO - MakeUseOf

Improve your Linux admin skills with these pro tips  TechRepublic

The release candidate of GNOME 40 is available today while the official GNOME 40.0 debut is still on track for next week...

Lead Linux Systems Administrator  IT-Online

How to Install the Chrome Browser on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

Following yesterday's release of the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card and the updated Radeon Software for Linux 20.50 driver, AMD has now released AMDVLK 2021.Q1.6 as their updated open-source Vulkan driver with Navi 22 / RX 6700 XT support...

While Intel upstreamed their forthcoming "Ice Lake" Xeon processor support long ago and has been focused on next-gen Sapphire Rapids enablement now for the better part of the past year, there still are some Ice Lake Xeon tweaks taking place here and there. This week a new bleeding-edge patch is in testing for tweaking the power/performance behavior of Ice Lake Xeon with Intel's idle driver...

Intel Tweaking Ice Lake Xeon Linux Power Management Code For Higher C6 Latency  Phoronix

Oracle Linux: How to install a LAMP stack  TechRepublic

How to migrate from CentOS 8 Linux to AlmaLinux 8 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

It looks like the Linux 5.13 kernel will be supporting an interesting RISC-V feature this spring...

RISC-V XIP Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 To "eXecute In Place"  Phoronix

It's been a while since hearing much about Wayland efforts on FreeBSD, but it turns out the Sway i3-inspired Wayland compositor can run on this BSD after a number of setup steps. However, the likes of KDE Plasma on Wayland still aren't working well outside of Linux...