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Linux kernel has been stripped of Russians - Linus Torvalds responds harshly to criticism

The creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, has confirmed the removal of twelve Russian developers from the kernel support team. He responded firmly to criticism of this decision. Initially, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the lead kernel developer, announced the rem...

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It happened, Doom ran on a graphics card. Without a processor or anything else

It seems that enthusiasts are tired of playing Doom on vibrators, tractors, and bacteria. One of them has launched the game exclusively on a graphics card — on just one graphics card. The project, titled doomgpu, available on GitHub, runs Doom purel...

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launched on RISC-V processor - FPS is small, but everything works

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has successfully been launched on a RISC-V processor thanks to the Box64 environment for Linux. Although the frame rate is low, the game runs completely. The free, open-source RISC-V processor architecture is at an earlier s...

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Linux market share hits new record of 4.4%

The analytics firm StatCounter reports that Linux's share of the desktop operating system market has reached a historic high of 4.44%. This marks a significant increase compared to July of last year (3.12%) and July 2022 (2.76%). While this figure ma...

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Raspberry Pi runs a full 3D game for the first time - thanks to PCIe x4 and AMD Radeon graphics card

Pineboards, a manufacturer of expansion boards for Raspberry Pi, showcased the advancements in PCIe support with the Pi 5. With one of their products, the company connected an AMD Radeon graphics card to the Raspberry Pi 5 and successfully played a f...

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From Linux kernel panic to critical Windows crash - CrowdStrike antivirus "kills" PCs with different operating systems

Last week, a significant computer failure shook the world. Due to the "blue screen of death" and cyclical reboots, Windows computers ceased to function in numerous organizations, including banks, transportation, and financial firms, among others. It ...

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A Linux program allows you to enter text in Morse code by opening and closing the laptop lid

An open-source Linux program by Jessie Lee called Open and Shut, available on GitHub, allows entering messages in Morse code by opening and closing the laptop lid. Its functionality was demonstrated on a Lenovo Thinkpad laptop. Of course, not every l...

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From software to hard: Winamp interface player plays music and is controlled from the touch screen

The enthusiast Rodmg has created a physical implementation of the musical retro player Winamp based on Raspberry Pi 4 called Linamp. It can play mp3, m4a, FLAC, and other digital formats from the file system, including from the SMB network. There is ...

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Linux gaming got a performance boost with new NVIDIA NVK Vulkan graphics card driver with new graphics card driver

The NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver for Linux has received a significant update that will greatly improve gaming performance by implementing implicit pipeline caching. This optimization method allows the GPU to reuse visualized content and pipeline configur...

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"Digital Sovereignty. German authorities have switched 30,000 civil servants to Linux

The authorities of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein have transferred 30 thousand state employees from the Microsoft Windows operating system to Linux. This was reported by ArsTechnica. It is noted that the government has finally completed the p...

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A backdoor has been discovered in xz Utils. Users are urged to stop using Fedora distributions

In the popular xz Utils package for lossless data compression and working with the .xz format, a backdoor was discovered. A backdoor is a method of bypassing standard authentication procedures, providing unauthorized remote access to a computer. On F...

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Windows Subsystem for Linux will get a graphical interface

It should be noted that we are not talking about the graphical interface of Linux in Windows, but about the implementation of some functions of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in the interface of the Microsoft OS. The company has created a grap...

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AMD adds Zen 5 support to GCC Linux compiler

AMD has added support for its future processors based on the Zen 5 microarchitecture to the GCC compiler. Znver5 is now a target in the GCC Git repository until the stable release of GCC 14.1. This step ensures that developers will have the necessary...

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