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With AMD Zen 4, It's Surprisingly Not Worthwhile Disabling CPU Security Mitigations  Phoronix

While some Linux enthusiasts eagerly recommend users boot their systems with the "mitigations=off" kernel parameter for run-time disabling of various relevant CPU security mitigations for Spectre, Meltdown, L1TF, TAA, Retbleed, and friends, with the new AMD Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" processors while still needing some software mitigations, it's surprisingly faster for the most part leaving the relevant mitigations enabled...

How to Install Rancher Desktop on Linux  BollyInside

9 Useful Ways to Reuse an Old Mac  MUO - MakeUseOf

Currently Linux's Logitech HID++ driver "hid-logitech-hidpp" relies on a static list of device quirks for indicating which Logitech mice support high resolution scrolling. With the upcoming Linux 6.1 kernel, the plan is to change that list of devices/quirks and to automatically determine if a device supports high resolution scrolling...

Linux 6.1 Change Aims To Auto-Detect Logitech HID++ High Resolution Scrolling Support  Phoronix

Amazon lets you rent Ubuntu Pro. Yes, it's Linux on the virtual desktop  The Register

The Best Linux VPN in 2022 | Paid and Free Linux VPNs  Business 2 Community

In this article we will try to teach you how to Install Samba on RHEL-Based Linux Distributions. Samba is a popular freeware program that allows end users  BollyInside

Red Hat gives enterprise Linux a major boost  TechRadar

AMD Sends Last Minute Fixes To Linux 6.0 For RDNA3 Graphics Cards  Phoronix

Linux 6.0 should be released as stable on Sunday unless Linus Torvalds has last minute reservations and decides to extend the cycle by an extra week. AMD has sent in a last minute set of patches for their AMDGPU kernel driver with Linux 6.0 for dealing with what appear to be the upcoming RDNA3 graphics cards...

The 'Heavy Machinery' update for survival game Volcanoids looks awesome  GamingOnLinux

Linux Mint 21.1 “Vera” to Arrive on Christmas with Improved Driver Manager, New ISO Verifier  9to5Linux

Linux Mint 21.1 Codenamed ‘Vera’, Will Arrive at Xmas  OMG! Ubuntu!

5 Nautilus Extensions to Enhance Your GNOME File Manager  MUO - MakeUseOf

Using Chmod Recursive to Change File Permissions on macOS and Linux  Petri.com

This week was word of the Intel Arc Graphics A770 launching for $329+ on 12 October, yesterday was the embargo lift on the Arc Graphics A750 also shipping on 12 Ocrober for $289+, and now today is another embargo lift concerning Intel Arc Graphics.....

Intel Arc Graphics A750 + A770 Are Ready To Run On Open-Source Linux Drivers  Phoronix

The Ubuntu-based Linux Mint operating system has been working to enhance its Driver Manager utility for dealing with proprietary and other out-of-tree kernel hardware drivers...