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vlock: The Smart Way to Lock Your Linux Terminal

Tecmint - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 12:00
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Virtual consoles are very important features of Linux, and they provide a system user a shell prompt to use the system in a non-graphical setup

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Systemd 256-rc1 Brings A Huge Number Of New Features

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 08:35
Systemd 256-rc1 is available this evening and it comes with many new features and improvements to existing features. It's a big one...

NVIDIA Developer Opens Feature Pull Request For Open-Source NVK Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 05:06
If your interest didn't pique enough when the former Nouveau lead developer joined NVIDIA and sent out a big patch series for this originally-reverse-engineered, open-source NVIDIA kernel driver, here's another plot twist: another NVIDIA engineer opening a merge request adding to the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver...

Red Hat Offering Up To 4 Years Extra Support For RHEL7

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 04:43
This year already marks ten years since the introduction of RHEL 7. While the Red Hat Enterprise Linux support period is typically 10 years, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 they have decided to extend that by up to four years with Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS)...

Wayland 1.23 Alpha Released With OpenBSD Support & New APIs

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 01:14
As expected, the Wayland 1.23 Alpha release is now available as this next Wayland release looks to officially roll-out toward the end of May...

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X & Intel Core i9 14900K: Ubuntu 22.04 vs. 23.10 vs. 24.04 Linux Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 00:02
As part of my ongoing benchmarking of the newly-released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux distribution, today's focus is looking at the high-end Intel Core i9 14900K and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X desktops while comparing the performance across Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu 23.10, and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for dozens of workloads.

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2024.1 With More Gen AI & LLM Features

Phoronix - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 23:00
Intel engineers have just released OpenVINO 2024.1, the newest feature release for this excellent open-source AI toolkit that continues expanding its features and capabilities particularly around Generative AI "GenAI" and Large Language Models (LLMs)...

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