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The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away

Phoronix - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 18:45
Alpine Linux remains one of the most popular lightweight Linux distributions built atop musl libc and Busybox. Alpine Linux has found significant use within containers and the embedded space while now sadly the most prolific maintainer of packages for the Linux distribution has decided to step down from her roles...

Linus Torvalds: "Let's Just Disable The Stupid [AMD] fTPM HWRND Thing"

Phoronix - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 18:27
Linux creator Linus Torvalds is growing frustrated with AMD fTPM hardware random number generator bugs on recent Ryzen systems plaguing the kernel and has expressed a desire in potentially disabling its use...

Building Debian For RISC-V Currently Relies Upon Nine HiFive Unmatched Boards

Phoronix - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 18:12
RISC-V is now an official Debian architecture for the Debian 13 "Trixie" release to happen in about two years time. Over the weekend a brief status update was issued surrounding this newest CPU architecture to be supported by the Debian GNU/Linux team. Arguably most interesting is how they are currently building out the Debian RISC-V packages...

FreeCAD 0.21-rc Brings Improvements To This Great Open-Source CAD Solution

Phoronix - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 17:53
FreeCAD 0.21 is nearing release as this wonderful open-source CAD solution...

Archinstall 2.6 Released For Latest Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer

Phoronix - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 17:32
Just in time for the next monthly ISOs of Arch Linux, Archinstall 2.6 has been released as the latest feature update for this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux distribution installer...

How to Create and Run New Service Units in Systemd Using Shell Script

Tecmint - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 14:31
The post How to Create and Run New Service Units in Systemd Using Shell Script first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

A few days ago, I came across a Centos 8 32-bit distro and I felt the desire to test it on an old 32-bit machine.

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Glances – An Advanced Real Time System Monitoring Tool for Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 13:41
The post Glances – An Advanced Real Time System Monitoring Tool for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Earlier, we’ve written about many Linux System Monitor Tools that can be used to monitor the performance of Linux systems, but we think that most

The post Glances – An Advanced Real Time System Monitoring Tool for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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