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• Carl George on Twitter — "I’ve been playing around with matplotlib to chart this data over time. Due to the difference in scale it’s necessary to split into different ranges. The “Liberty” systems started showing up in August, with a high of 79 systems the week of 2021-09-06 to 2021-09-12."
• Microsoft transforms the Windows Subsystem for Linux into a Windows 11 app — “Our goals are to make WSL in the Microsoft Store the best way to install and use WSL, as you’ll be able to get the latest updates fastest through that route, and in the long term we’d like to move WSL users to use the store version.”
• A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available!
• Craig Loewen on Twitter — "A preview of WSL inside of the Microsoft Store is now available for Windows 11 machines!"
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter — "So many new goodies today! WSL in the Store, WSLg bundled with WSL, new WSL2 kernel version, a bunch of fixes for ARM64 👀, wsl.exe --mount, and a handful of nice refinements and fixes."
• Ubuntu 21.10 Release Date & New Features — Ubuntu 21.10 will be available to download from October 14, 2021.
• Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri - New Features and Release Date
• Ubuntu 21.10 is upon us, and it’s small changes for major improvements
• Ubuntu 19.10 To 21.10: AMD Zen 2 + Radeon Performance On Linux Over Two Years — Ubuntu 19.10 was the first release following the Zen 2 debut in the summer of 2019. The benchmarks today are looking at the Ubuntu 19.10 performance up against the Ubuntu 21.10 daily ISO in its near final form ahead of the official release on Thursday.
• MATE 1.26 released | MATE — The theme for this release has been adding new functionality to the MATE Desktop while maintaining the look and feel that we all know and love. While all the added features are surely quite exciting we also did not forget to do tons of bugfixing, modernising the code base and optimizing the performance.
• KDE Plasma desktop 5.22 Release Announcement — This time around, the big new feature is Adaptive Transparency: This means the panel and panel widgets will usually be pleasantly translucent, but will become entirely opaque if there are any maximized windows, to avoid any visual distractions when you need to focus.
• Bug #1944468 “Electron applications all crash upon launch”
• quickemu — Quickly create and run highly optimised desktop virtual machines for Linux, macOS and Windows; with just two commands. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu will figure out the best way to do it for you.
• A GUI for Quickemu — Provides an interface for setting up new VMs with Quickget, starting and stopping existing VMs.
• PN50 review from Anandtech
• Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking — Windows 11 support and various Windows improvements, a wide variety of Phoromatic fixes and improvements from cleaning-up/unifying the CSS to log improvements and making use of the new log viewer, and more.
• Why I have decided to step down from the AlmaLinux OS Foundation Board — "So, here we are. I am no longer on the board - and I am no longer deciding what is next for AlmaLinux OS Foundation. I will continue to be heavily involved in the day-to-day of AlmaLinux. CloudLinux and TuxCare will continue being just one of many corporate sponsors. benny Vasquez was voted to become a new chair of the board, and I am sure that the foundation and the board will flourish under her guidance."

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• Assigning GPU Devices - Red Hat Customer Portal — To assign a GPU to a guest virtual machine, you must enable the I/O Memory Management Unit (IOMMU) on the host machine, identify the GPU device by using the lspci command
• Ubuntu 19.10 To Bundle NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver — The open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" drivers will remain the default for NVIDIA graphics on new Ubuntu installations, but this change is positioning the mainline and legacy NVIDIA proprietary drivers onto the Ubuntu ISO so that they can be easily obtained locally post-install.
• ZFS On Linux 0.8 Released With Native Encryption and TRIM — ZFS On Linux 0.8 adds native encryption support as well as raw encrypted ZFS send/receive support.
• Please don’t theme our apps — An open letter from independent app developers to the wider GNOME community
• Leave the themes alone — If you don't like our themes, create your own Linux distribution, where Adwaita theme will be installed, which cannot be changed, or close source code of GNOME.
• Texas Linux Fest 2019 — Texas Linux Fest is an annual Linux and open source software event for Texas and the surrounding region. We are excited to bring you two days of general sessions and vendor sessions this year along with two full days of expo floor! Texas Linux Fest is for the business and home Linux user, and for the experienced developer and newcomer alike.
• The Friday Stream Episode 5: Junk Yard Sale — Chris and Brent are back from their buddies trip to Portland and share a few stories, but the big surprise comes when Chris’ wife joins to share big life-changing news.
• Linux Academy Redesigned Hands-On Labs UI — After returning from the holiday weekend, we are ready to show off the new Hands-On Labs interface along with a ton of new hands-on labs and two new courses.
• Mobile Apps Now Open to Community Edition students — Starting with today’s release (3.0), Community Edition students will be able to log in and use the our mobile apps
• Ell's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 ARTICLE — Great pictures and more details from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019.
• Barcelona '19: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon - YouTube — KubeCon talks posted on their YouTube Channel.
• More Pictures from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019
• Brent's Clear Linux OS 2019 ARTICLE — The part of the story that can only be told in pictures.
• phmccarty (Patrick McCarty)
• Clear Linux OS - Architecture Overview — Describes how Clear Linux OS is designed, highlighting core features, operating models, and foundational tools that are key to understanding how the distro operates.
• Clear Linux OS MeetUp: An Introduction and Beyond Source - YouTube — We had the Intel Clear Linux OS MeetUp last night in Oregon and it was a success!
• Docker Bug Allows Root Access to Host File System — The basic premise of this attack is that FollowSymlinkInScope suffers from a fairly fundamental TOCTOU attack