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'No Man's Sky Beyond' Just Got Patched For Linux, Even Though It's A Windows-Only PC Game  Forbes

There are subtle signs emerging that Valve's Proton -- a compatibility solution that lets you play Windows-exclusive games on Steam for Linux -- is making a ...

Following Chromebooks switching to BFQ and other distributions weighing this I/O scheduler for better responsiveness while maintaining good throughput capabilities, beginning with Fedora 31 there will be BFQ used as well...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS 6 Receive Important Kernel Security Update  Softpedia News

Users are urged to update their systems immediately.

Released nearly one month ago was the systemd 243 release candidate while the official update has yet to materialize. It looks though like it may be on the horizon with a second release candidate being posted today...

There have been a lot of announcements pertaining to Qt as of late, most of which have been about forthcoming efforts around Qt 6 development. A new announcement out of The Qt Company catching us off-guard is their plans for the tool-kit on micro-controllers...

Microsoft and others join the Linux Foundation's Confidential Computing Consortium  BetaNews

Microsoft, Google, Red Hat, IBM and Intel are among those to join the newly formed Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC). The new organization will be ...

Linux kernel development activity has shown light on a new Intel SoC we haven't anything about to date... Lightning Mountain...

Linux Begins Preparing For Intel's New "Lightning Mountain" SoC  Phoronix

Linux kernel development activity has shown light on a new Intel SoC we haven't anything about to date... Lightning Mountain. We haven't seen Intel Lightning ...

The second development release of the forthcoming Phoronix Test Suite 9.0-Asker is now available for testing...

From 0 To 6000: Celebrating One Year Of Proton, Valve's Brilliant Linux Gaming Solution  Forbes

One year ago, Valve completely changed the conversation we were having about gaming on Linux. One year ago, playing thousands of Windows-exclusive ...

11 Best Linux Distro for hacking and programming  H2S Media

Looking for some Open Source but best Linux distro to learn hacking and Pen Testing? Kali Linux distribution is always there… Kali Linux is one of the best ...

VirtualBox is a most popular x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization software for organizations as well as home users with an highly feature rich, high performance software solution that is freely available as Open Source product...

I first installed Linux in 1993. At that time, you really didn't have many options for installing the operating system. In those early days, many people simply copied a running image from someone else. Then someone had the neat idea to create a "distribution" of Linux that let you customize what software you wanted to install. That was the Softlanding Linux System (SLS) and my first introduction to Linux.

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Moving files in Linux can seem relatively straightforward, but there are more options available than most realize. This article teaches beginners how to move files in the GUI and on the command line, but also explains what’s actually happening under the hood, and addresses command line options that many experience users have rarely explored.

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I love learning the what, why, and how of new open source projects, especially when they gain popularity in the DevOps space. Classification as a "DevOps technology" tends to mean scalable, collaborative systems that go across a broad range of challenges—from message bus to monitoring and back again. There is always something new to explore, install, spin up, and explore.

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The UBports community that maintains the (currently 16.04 LTS derived) Ubuntu Touch have now shipped OTA-10 as their newest over-the-air feature update...

Google, Microsoft, Intel Join Hands With Linux Foundation To Protect Your Data  Fossbytes

Major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Intel, Alibaba, Arm, IBM, Red Hat, Baidu, etc., have come together to form the Confidential Computing ...

Flameshot is a brilliant screenshot tool for Linux  Ghacks Technology News

Flameshot is an incredible screenshot tool for Linux. It is user-friendly and has some really good editing options, and a cloud-share option.

Intel's Clear Linux team on Wednesday announced their Deep Learning Reference Stack 4.0 during the Linux Foundation's Open-Source Summit North America event taking place in San Diego...

Clear Linux Releases Deep Learning Reference Stack 4.0 For Better AI Performance  Phoronix

Intel's Clear Linux team on Wednesday announced their Deep Learning Reference Stack 4.0 during the Linux Foundation's Open-Source Summit North America ...