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For those that are fans of the 7 Days to Die open-world shooter / horror game, the performance on Linux is now as much as 30% higher as a result of Mesa GL threading...

In this article, you will learn how to install wget non-interactive network downloader in Linux. Wget is a tool developed by the GNU project used for retrieving or downloading files from web or FTP...

World’s Top 500 Supercomputers Run On Linux  Fossbytes

One and a half years late, the "DANOS" (known formerly as "dNOS") network operating system is now open-source under the Linux Foundation...

AT&T Finally Opens Up dNOS "DANOS" Network Operating System Code  Phoronix

Over the years there have been many interesting Wayland projects to take flight focused on new and interesting use-cases. One of these interesting (and experimental) Wayland compositors was NEMO-UX focused on providing a shell for computing environments that span large surfaces like virtual chalkboards or tabletops...

Today the community celebrates KEDA 1.0, an open source project aimed at providing event-driven scale capabilities for container workloads.

NextCry Ransomware Encrypts Files On NextCloud Linux Servers  Fossbytes

ALT Linux: Linux Worthy Alternative, With a Catch  Herald Journalism 24

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced from SC19 today in Denver that they are releasing a "reference design" of hardware and software to help in deployments of their graphics processors within Arm-based servers focused on HPC and AI...

NVIDIA Releasing Reference Design For Stuffing Their GPUs Into Arm Servers  Phoronix

Valve has confirmed recent rumors around one of their new virtual reality games in development being Half-Life: Alyx...

With yesterday's much anticipated Intel oneAPI beta being built around open-source standards like SYCL, the "cross-device" support can at least in theory extend beyond just Intel platforms. Codeplay is already showing that's possible with a to-be-open-source layer that will allow oneAPI and SYCL / Data Parallel C++ to run atop NVIDIA GPUs via CUDA...

The Linux who command tells who's logged in and a lot more  Techworld Australia

The Linux who command tells who’s logged in and a lot more  Network World

A patch series was merged today for the in-development Mesa 20.0 to further lower the CPU overhead of Intel's open-source Vulkan driver...

Linux, Windows Users Targeted With New ACBackdoor Malware  BleepingComputer

Making waves today is that Intel will be removing very old BIOS and driver downloads from their site on or after 22 November. Though these software downloads for the products in question are around ~20 years old so the real-world impact should be small plus with Linux drivers being in the mainline kernel, all you'd really be losing out on are BIOS updates that themselves haven't seen updates in years...

Intel To Drop Very Old Drivers/BIOS From Their Site, But The Linux Impact To Be Minimal  Phoronix