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Linux Foundation Energy’s Executive Director, Dr. Shuli Goodman, On Decarbonization At The Electron Level  CleanTechnica

Wine 6.16 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this widely-used software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other systems...

Linux 5.14 set to boost future enterprise application security  TechCrunch

Windows, Linux, and Mac commands everyone needs to know (free PDF)  TechRepublic

AMD Radeon RDNA 2 Refresh Possibly Confirmed Via Linux Kernel Driver Update  Hot Hardware

Current Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe started out in the late 90's taking over maintainership of the Linux kernel's CD-ROM driver code. However, as he's busy these days with IO_uring and other prominent I/O activities for Linux, he's hoping someone interested and capable would want to take over the Linux kernel's CD-ROM code...

How to level up your Linux developer skills  TechRepublic

Manage Your PostgreSQL Database With pgAdmin on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

Open source Kodi 19 Matrix-based LibreELEC 10 Linux distribution available for download  BetaNews

3 ways to install Emacs text editor on Ubuntu 20.04  H2S Media

The evolution of Open Source - a retrospective as Linux turns 30-years-old  DIGIT.FYI

Easy way to Install PHP 8.0 on Debian 11 Bullseye Server  H2S Media

A number of Phoronix readers have been asking about some fresh file-system comparisons on recent kernels. With not having the time to conduct the usual kernel version vs. file-system comparison, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS file-system benchmarks on a speedy WD_BLACK SN850 NVMe solid-state drive...

Linux 5.14 SSD Benchmarks With Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS  Phoronix

The Linux kernel has already sported SM4 cipher algorithm implementation optimized for AES-NI and AVX while now an Alibaba engineer has contributed an AVX2 optimized variant for even greater performance...

The 8 Best Productivity Apps for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

AMD Adds 17 PCI IDs to Linux Kernel Driver, Teasing a Possible RDNA 2 Refresh  Tom's Hardware

For nearly the past decade there has been calls for deprecating the Liux kernel's frame-buffer "FBDEV" device code though the code remains within the kernel. While these days most display drivers are DRM-based even in the embedded world, a lot of FBDEV code still ends up in kernel builds even when just wanting to use DRM's FBDEV emulation layer. But a patch proposal out of Red Hat would further split-up the FBDEV core support to allow less of it to be built...

On top of all the PCI IDs in place already for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver, another 17 PCI IDs were added in a new patch for this open-source Radeon graphics driver...

Every so often, I need to do some calculations related to dates. A few days ago, a colleague asked me to set up a new project definition in our (open source, of course!) project management system. This project is to start on the 1st of August and finish on the 31st of December. The service to be provided is budgeted at 10 hours per week.

So, yeah, I had to figure out how many weeks between 2021-08-01 and 2021-12-31 inclusive.

This is the perfect sort of problem to solve with a tiny Groovy script.

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