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Hard to believe that former Linux developer Hans Reiser was already eligible for parole, but it was denied this month. The former developer responsible for creating the once-promising ReiserFS and Reiser4 file-systems will remain locked up for at least three more years...

Former Linux Developer Hans Reiser To Remain Locked Up  Phoronix

GNU Automake 1.16.2 is out this weekend as the first update to this important piece of the GNU build system in two years. While such length of time has passed, Automake 1.16.2 is only made up of just over three dozen commits...

Linux fsinfo() System Call Continues Maturing For Exposing More File-System + Mount Info  Phoronix

There has been a lot of interesting work happening in the Linux storage space in recent time like IO_uring, the countless file-system innovations, and other features -- including one addition that's now up to its nineteenth revision and is for providing more VFS/file-system and mount topology information...

Install the privacy-focused Tor Browser on your Chromebook in 4 simple steps  Chrome Unboxed

Facebook is looking to hire more compiler engineers as they ramp up their investment in LLVM and its sub-projects like the Clang C/C++ compiler and LLD linker...

Linux: No need to be afraid of the penguin  The Star Online

For those looking to work on Blender 3D modeling from a laptop, having a NVIDIA RTX graphics processor can do wonders with the OptiX back-end for dramatically speeding up render times. Here is a look at how the different back-ends compare when running the HP ZBook 17 G6 mobile workstation with Quadro RTX 5000 graphics...

session.save_path (/tmp) is not writable for web server :: security-risk!? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Linux Mint Released LMDE 4 Called “Debbie”, Based on Debian OS  TechDator

System76 is preparing to begin shipping their new Lemur Pro laptop in early April. This will be their most open laptop yet albeit still based on Intel. But it looks like when they move on with their ambitious plans to begin manufacturing their own devices, we may finally see a System76 AMD-powered laptop...

System76 May Offer AMD Ryzen Laptops When They Begin Their Own Manufacturing  Phoronix

How to install the latest version of Telegram Desktop on Chrome OS  Chrome Unboxed

For those wondering what the buzz was about earlier this month when there was word of a high quality GPU compression codec going open-source, details on that have now been revealed...

Well known open-source AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák has been focusing recently on improvements to glthread for OpenGL threading that is generally able to offer better performance...

Linux Mint Released LMDE 4 Called “Debbie”, Based on Debian OS  TechDator

Debian is the latest Linux distribution flipping on WireGuard within their kernel builds...

Debian Testing Is Enabling WireGuard Within Their Linux Kernel Build  Phoronix

Debian Testing Is Enabling WireGuard Within Their Linux Kernel Build  Phoronix