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Intel Lunar Lake "Xe2" Graphics Firmware Upstreamed For Xe Linux Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 02/19/2024 - 22:17
Intel is upstreaming the necessary Lunar Lake "LNL" graphics firmware nice and early to linux-firmware.git for their "Xe2" integrated graphics...

Mozilla Firefox 123.0 Available With Improved Translation Support, New Developer Features

Phoronix - Mon, 02/19/2024 - 22:03
Firefox 123.0 binaries are available today ahead of the official announcement tomorrow for this newest monthly web browser update...

Linux Still Working To Disable RNDIS Drivers In 2024

Phoronix - Mon, 02/19/2024 - 19:35
Back in January 2023 was an attempt to disable kernel drivers for Microsoft's RNDIS protocol. The Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) is home to security concerns for this protocol built atop USB for virtual Ethernet functionality. Later in the year the effort to disable RNDIS on Linux was tried again without going mainline. In recent days it looks like there will be a fresh attempt at getting the RNDIS driver support disabled...

Third Version Of Linux Atomic Console Support Posted

Phoronix - Mon, 02/19/2024 - 19:24
Posted on Sunday was the third iteration of the patches working toward the threaded/atomic non-blocking console "NBCON" support that is known to be one of the last blockers to sort out before the remainder of the Linux real-time "RT" patches can be upstreamed...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Wrapping Up Adaptive Sync SDP Support

Phoronix - Mon, 02/19/2024 - 19:08
The Intel "i915" LInux kernel graphics driver has been working to wrap-up support for enabling Adaptive Sync SDP for DisplayPort (DP) for their graphics cards...

Smem – Reports Memory Consumption Per-Process and Per-User in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 02/19/2024 - 13:31
The post Smem – Reports Memory Consumption Per-Process and Per-User in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Memory management, particularly monitoring memory usage, is crucial for your Linux system. There are many tools available across different Linux distributions to monitor memory usage,

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How to Use Awk for Text Filtering with Pattern-Specific Actions – Part 3

Tecmint - Mon, 02/19/2024 - 12:51
The post How to Use Awk for Text Filtering with Pattern-Specific Actions – Part 3 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In the third part of the following awk command series, we shall take a look at filtering text or strings based on specific patterns that

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Linux 6.8-rc5 Released With Documented Process For CVE Security Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Mon, 02/19/2024 - 05:22
Linux 6.8-rc5 is out as the latest weekly test release of Linux 6.8 ahead of its stable debut in March...

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