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System76 Making COSMIC Improvements To Their Launcher, Better Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 04/07/2023 - 21:50
In addition to working on their in-house Linux laptop prototype and other hardware endeavors, System76 continues being quite busy working on their COSMIC desktop environment to be used by their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

12 Ping Command Examples to Test Your Network

Tecmint - Fri, 04/07/2023 - 20:34
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Ping is a simple, widely used, cross-platform networking utility for testing if a host is reachable on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. It works by sending a series of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)

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Rust Support Is Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel's V4L2/Media Subsystem

Phoronix - Fri, 04/07/2023 - 20:14
As the latest effort in the quest of bringing Rust programming language usage to the Linux kernel, sent out on Thursday were initial patches for bringing Rust infrastructure to the Video 4 Linux 2 (V4L2) framework within the media subsystem...

AMD Instinct MI300 "GFX940" Support Merged To Mesa 23.1

Phoronix - Fri, 04/07/2023 - 18:43
While going back a year there has been "GFX940" open-source driver work happening within the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end and AMDGPU/AMDKFD Linux kernel drivers and the like, only this week was support merged for GFX940 into Mesa...

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