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Install MySQL 5.7 server and client on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux  H2S Media

How to install a digital certificate on your computer (Windows, Mac ...  Gearrice

Earlier this week I wrote about a budget Gigabyte motherboard for AMD Ryzen CPUs seeing Linux sensor monitoring support with the addition to the Gigabyte WMI sensors driver. Two more Gigabyte motherboards are now enabled for this driver in time for the Linux 6.3-rc5 release...

Two More Gigabyte Motherboards See Sensor Monitoring With Linux 6.3  Phoronix

Sent to Linus Torvalds on Saturday and already merged ahead of today's Linux 6.3-rc5 release were a set of input driver fixes. Most notable with that round of fixes were addressing some touchpad and keyboard issues with some TUXEDO Computers laptops when resuming from suspend...

Linux 6.3-rc5 Bringing Fix For Touchpad/Keyboard Issues With ...  Phoronix

FreeBSD 13.2-RC4 was scheduled to be the last release candidate for this BSD operating system update but then 13.2-RC5 came with one fix. Now in dragging out the release into April, FreeBSD 13.2-RC6 has been released with another fix...

FreeBSD 13.2-RC6 Released Due To Lingering Issue  Phoronix

Valve Shows A Huge Drop In Linux Gamers For March, But The ...  Phoronix

Valve just published their Steam Survey results for March 2023 and these initial numbers show a 0.54% drop to the Linux gaming marketshare, putting the overall Linux gaming population at around 0.84% of the Steam customer base. However, once again these numbers appear skewed/inaccurate...

Valve Shows A Huge Drop In Linux Gamers For March, But The Numbers Are Questionable  Phoronix

15 Common Ubuntu Terms, Jargon, and Lingo: Explained  MUO - MakeUseOf

Introduced with Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen "Sapphire Rapids" processors was the In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) for hardware accelerating data compression/decompression combined with primitive analytics functions for helping to accelerate the likes of RocksDB and ClickHouse. Intel IAA with Sapphire Rapids has already been supported for some time on an open-source stack as laid out in the Intel Sapphire Rapids accelerator setup guide while now Intel engineers are preparing Linux for IAA 2.0...

Intel IAA 2.0 Accelerator Preparations Coming With Linux 6.4  Phoronix

Wine 8.5 released with WinRT dark theme support  Neowin

Linux Lite 6.4 released with WebP support, runs on just 768 MB RAM  Neowin

How to Install the Dell iDRAC Service Module  ServeTheHome

The Blender open-source 3D modeling software as well as the GTK toolkit are the latest open-source projects this week ironing out support for Wayland's fractional scaling protocol...

Following yesterday's Wine 8.5 bi-weekly development release, Wine-Staging 8.5 is out for this experimental/testing version where some 500+ extra patches are applied atop the upstream Wine code-base...

The KDE developers ended March on a high note with more fixes, continued porting around Qt 6, and also taking care of more Plasma Wayland issues...