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3 Best Document Collaboration Platforms for Linux in 2024

Tecmint - Wed, 02/14/2024 - 13:05
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Having a good document collaboration platform is what can help you increase your productivity and allow you to collaborate with other Linux users in real-time,

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LZ4 Compression For Hibernation Images Queued For Linux 6.9: Faster Restore Times

Phoronix - Wed, 02/14/2024 - 09:24
In development the past several months has been patches to allow changing the compression algorithm used by the hibernation images of the Linux kernel while preserving the system memory contents. With using LZ4 yields faster system restore times from hibernation than the current de facto compression algorithm used of LZO. This work is now queued for introduction in Linux 6.9...

HITMAN 3 Will Now Launch On Intel GPUs Under Linux After Hiding The GPU Vendor

Phoronix - Wed, 02/14/2024 - 08:55
While Intel is the company behind XeSS - Xe Super Sampling, under Linux it's an ongoing story of having to hide the fact that Intel graphics are in use when trying to enjoy Windows games running on Steam Play that are XeSS-enabled. The latest example is the HITMAN 3 game that can work on modern Arc Graphics as long as you conceal the fact under Linux that Intel graphics are being used...

Linux 6.9 To Allow RISC-V Kernel Builds With Clang Link-Time Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 02/14/2024 - 00:28
Adding to the list of features slated for the upcoming Linux 6.9 cycle is allowing RISC-V kernel builds to be compiled with Clang Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) enabled...

New WiFi Authentication Vulnerabilities For Linux's IWD & WPA_Supplicant

Phoronix - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 22:16
Kicking off what may end up being a fairly busy Patch Tuesday are two WiFi authentication vulnerabilities being made public that affect Intel's IWD daemon as well as the WPA_Supplicant software -- between the two they are the most common solutions for wireless daemons on Linux systems...

The Current State & Plans For Porting Linux/BSD Software To Redox OS

Phoronix - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 22:03
A new blog post was posted by the Redox OS team that is working on their Rust-written micro-kernel designed open-source operating system. Their latest post lays out their porting strategy for getting more Linux and BSD user-space software running on this Rust-based OS...

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