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While Fedora has been well known for years in always shipping the very latest packages in its distribution as of release even if it means using the likes of a near-final GCC compiler pre-release, developers have decided to postpone the shipping of PHP 8.0 until the autumn with their Fedora 35 release...

Can a Linux phone replace my iPhone or Android device?  Liliputing

You Can Now Upgrade from Linux Mint 20 to Linux Mint 20.1, Here's How  LXer

As part of Intel's lengthy "Keem Bay" upstreaming for Linux as their latest-generation Movidius VPU offering, now that much of the core infrastructure bits are all mainlined, the latest focus has been on their Vision Processing Unit enablement...

Intel Vision Processing Unit Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Rust 1.49 Released with Tier-1 Support of 64-Bit ARM Linux  InfoQ.com

Rust 1.49 Released with Tier-1 Support of 64-Bit ARM Linux  InfoQ.com

Nvidia Patches Security Flaws Plaguing Windows and Linux Users  PCMag UK

Comprehensive Study of Linux Operating System Market provides an in-depth insight of Sales and Trends Forecast to 2026  Jumbo News

How to remove background microphone noise in Windows, Mac, Linux  BleepingComputer

Nvidia Patches Security Flaws Plaguing Windows and Linux Users  PCMag

Stemming from the renewed attention this week of Haswell GT1 graphics being broken for the past half-year under Linux with the latest versions of the kernel, a revised patch was sent out to restore that graphics support for low-end Haswell Celeron/Pentium processors. As part of that, a new option is being introduced to allow disabling security mitigations of the Intel graphics driver...

Microsoft Flight Simulator VR Now Working On Linux Thanks To Proton Experimental  Happy Gamer

A New Malware Working On Windows, Linux, and MacOS Targets Your Cryptocurrency: Report  CryptoPotato

C++ Developer Backend Linux Python  Gi Media

How Linux was born, as told by Linus.... - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

This week AMD engineers published their initial code for the AMDGPU/AMDKFD Linux kernel driver for providing a Heterogeneous Memory Management based Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) memory manager that ultimately will be used by their ROCm compute stack...

AMD Making Progress On HMM-Based SVM Memory Manager For Open-Source Compute  Phoronix

Alibaba developers released an updated version of their "blazing fast" lightweight deep learning framework MNN, or the Mobile Neural Network...

With last week's release of dav1d 0.8 for CPU-based AV1 video decoding we provided a number of x86_64 benchmarks while questions were raised around the ARM64 and POWER9 performance. Here are such benchmarks for those wondering about the AV1 video decoding speed on those architectures...