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How to Install and Run Rust on Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 04/24/2023 - 10:07
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Rust (commonly known as Rust-Lang) is a relatively new, open-source practical systems programming language that runs extremely fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety. It is a safe and concurrent language developed by Mozilla

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GNU Linux-libre 6.3-gnu Cleans Up New ath12k WiFi Driver, Other New Additions

Phoronix - Mon, 04/24/2023 - 09:00
Following this afternoon's release of the Linux 6.3 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 6.3-gnu has already been released as this downstream kernel flavor that removes support for loading binary-only modules and trying to de-blob other driver code that otherwise depends upon "non-free" code...

GNU Linux-libre 6.3-gnu Cleans Up New ath12k WiFi Driver, Other New Additions

Phoronix - Mon, 04/24/2023 - 09:00
Following this afternoon's release of the Linux 6.3 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 6.3-gnu has already been released as this downstream kernel flavor that removes support for loading binary-only modules and trying to de-blob other driver code that otherwise depends upon "non-free" code...

Message to Red Hat associates today

Red Hat News - Mon, 04/24/2023 - 08:00
<p><em>Editor’s note: Earlier today, president and chief executive officer of Red Hat, Matt Hicks, shared the following email with Red Hatters.&nbsp;</em></p> <p>—</p> <p>Hi all,</p> <p>There have been several occasions where we’ve had to make tough decisions at Red Hat, but no decision has been harder than the one I must communicate to you today: We will reduce the associate base of Red Hat over the next few months. Our reductions will focus on g

Linux 6.3 Released With More Meteor Lake Enablement, Zen 4 Auto IBRS & Much More

Phoronix - Mon, 04/24/2023 - 03:30
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.3 as the newest stable kernel version...

Linux 6.3 Features Have A Lot For AMD & Intel, Steam Deck, ASUS Motherboards & More

Phoronix - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 20:51
The Linux 6.3 stable kernel is likely to be released later today so here is a reminder about the most exciting aspects of this spring kernel release...

Libreboot 20230423 Allows A Few More Boards To Run On Fully Open-Source Firmware

Phoronix - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 20:22
Libreboot as the downstream of Coreboot focused on ensuring 100% open-source system firmware support without any lurking binary blobs is out this Sunday with a new feature release...

Improved Linux Power Savings For Intel Haswell/Broadwell Laptops In 2023

Phoronix - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 18:52
It's been just shy of ten years since Intel launched their Haswell processors that were very successful at the time and was followed by Broadwell. While Intel's open-source Linux driver engineers are primarily concentrated on recent and future Intel hardware platforms, occasionally there is an improvement worth mentioning for mature platforms like Haswell and Broadwell. A new patch series this week will help with some minor graphics power-savings for those still running a nearly decade old Intel Linux laptop...

Flashrom Splits Into Two For This Firmware/ROM Flashing Utility

Phoronix - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 18:31
The Flashrom project that serves as an open-source firmware/ROM flashing utility not only for system BIOS/UEFI on motherboards but also capable of flashing firmware for various network / GPU / storage controller cards and other programmable devices has decided to effectively split into two...

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