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Roblox's Linux Dilemma: Balancing Act Between Compatibility and Cheating Crackdown  BNN Breaking

We can probably say a final goodbye to Roblox on Linux with Wine soon  GamingOnLinux

We can probably say a final goodbye to Roblox on Linux with Wine soon  GamingOnLinux

Released last June was the SDDM 0.20 display manager with experimental Wayland support and other enhancements after being in development for three years. Out this morning is SDDM 0.21 as another step toward SDDM 1.0 with improved Wayland support and other enhancements to this Qt-tooled display manager...

Longtime AMD open-source Mesa developer Marek Olšák after more than one decade working officially for AMD and years before that as an independent open-source contributor going back to the R300g days still has not run out of new performance optimizations to pursue. The most recent accomplishment for this leading Mesa contributor are some refinements to the OpenGL threading "glthread" code for lowering the memory footprint...

Intel confirmed at their MWC 2024 briefings that Granite Rapids D will debut in 2025 as the successor to Ice Lake D for Xeon D edge processors...

Starting over: Rebooting the OS stack for fun and profit  The Register

The post Level Up Linux: 20 Advanced Commands for Mid-Level Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

You may have found the first article, ‘Useful Commands for Beginners‘ very helpful, as it was intended for newbies, this article is tailored for middle-level

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When it comes to neural processing unit NPU/AI accelerators for Linux there is open-source options with the likes most notably of Intel-owned Habana Labs leading the way, Intel's iVPU driver for the NPU found within Meteor Lake SoCs, AMD recently posting a Ryzen AI Linux driver, etc. When it comes to reverse-engineered efforts, the Etnaviv project has expanded its scopes from just Vivante graphics IP to also embracing the Vivante NPU IP for running workloads like TensorFlow Lite. With the latest open-source achievements, the Etnaviv NPU performance is coming incredibly close to the proprietary and official driver...

8220 Hacker Group Attacking Linux & Windows Users to Mine Crypto  GBHackers

The post Top 5 Command Line Browsers for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

For some people around the globe, a web browser that renders both text and graphics is important since it provides an easy-to-use and attractive interface.

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 25th, 2024  9to5Linux

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 25th, 2024  9to5Linux

WayVNC 0.8 was released this weekend as the VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC attaches to wlroots-using compositors and creators virtual input devices and exposes the display via the RFB protocol for the lack of Wayland having any standardized VNC-type support for remote/network computing...

The post Pydio Cells: Free Self-Hosted Document Collaboration Platform first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Formerly known as just Pydio, Pydio Cells is an open-source document sharing and synchronization software that combines fast performance, granular security, huge file transfer sizes,

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Breathe new life into aging PCs: Tiny Core Linux 15.0 challenges Windows 11  BetaNews

The Linux 6.8 kernel continues coming together well and the v6.8-rc6 milestone is now available for testing. If all goes well Linux 6.8 will debut as stable in two weeks but with how things are currently pacing could end up being three weeks...

Linux 6.8-rc6 Released: This Kernel May Need An Extra Week For Testing  Phoronix

You can now destroy your GPU on Linux with FurMark 2  XDA Developers

It would be great if we could flip a switch on the networks that currently consume about 3% of the world's power and emit roughly 2% of the world's greenhouse gasses to make them more sustainable. And I’m sure any telecommunications service provider would want to reduce their network operating costs by being more energy efficient. But achieving sustainability goals is a complex and layered problem, and one that requires an entire ecosystem to work together to reduce the telecommunication industry’s carbon dioxide footprint. Many service providers are looking to advanced data analytics powe