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The best Linux apps aren't necessarily the most powerful. They're the ones that helped make Linux a practical operating system for regular people.
Turns out, there is a much lazier way to deal with a carefully configured Linux desktop!
Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel stable release expected to occur in the coming hours, a last minute "x86/urgent" pull request was submitted with one patch for adding the new tlbi= boot option...
Nextcloud Native is a new open-source client bringing Files, Photos, Talk, Calendar, Mail, and more into one polished native interface.
Today marks thirty three years since the Debian Linux distribution was started by the late Ian Murdock...
Google engineer Eric Biggers back in June posted an AVX-512 optimization for Linux RAID yielding up to a 41% improvement on a modern AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (Zen 5) processor. A revised patch then put it as much as a 43% improvement for this AVX-512 optimized xor_gen() function. The code hasn't yet been merged to mainline but an updated version of it is now available...
The Linux kernel's binfmt_misc functionality allows non-native/custom files to ne run directly such as for Windows EXE files to be handled by Wine or JAR files to be handled by the Java runtime. For the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window, the miscellaneous binary formats support is being extended so a binary type can be matched programmatically and the interpreter determined on a per-exec basis. BPF programs can also then be attached to dynamically choosing an execution environment on a per-binary basis...
For those concerned about current imbalance or voltage changes with the 12VHPWR power connectors and having an ASUS ROG Astral graphics card, there is now an open-source driver for Linux available that integrates with the hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem for 12VHPWR reporting on these ASUS graphics cards...
Founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock, Debian celebrates 33 years as one of the most influential projects in the Linux ecosystem.
Microsoft is to blame as much as Linux, Apple, and Google.
Legendary Mesa Radeon Gallium3D driver developer Marek OlΕ‘Γ‘k who was a longtime AMD employee and then joined Valve's Linux graphics driver team earlier this year has continued his focus now on perfecting his art around the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler...
nnn 5.3 βMai Taiβ introduces a native preview pane, improved fuzzy filtering, lazy-loaded plugins, new plugins, and numerous usability fixes.
A read-only system may sound limiting, but it will free you from dependency hell and irreversible mistakes.
The Apache-licensed project seeks to elevate independent sources, demote SEO spam, and ultimately loosen Big Techβs grip on web search. The post Alpha-Stage NeoSearch Brings Openness to Search appeared first on FOSS Force.
These systems had slick UIs, multiprocessor support, multitasking and MIDI. What happened?