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Intel Has A Number Of WiFi Improvements Ready For Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Tue, 12/28/2021 - 00:07
Intel's modern WiFi driver "IWLWIFI" is set to see a number of improvements with the Linux 5.17 kernel development cycle kicking off in January...

AMDVLK 2021.Q4.3 Released To Fix Poor Wayland Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 12/27/2021 - 20:20
AMD's official Vulkan driver team is ending out the year by pushing out AMDVLK 2021.Q4.3 as their official open-source Radeon Vulkan driver implementation for Linux systems. This alternative to the Mesa RADV driver finally has fixed up its very poor performance for Vulkan under Wayland...

Enlightenment 0.25 Released With Improvements To This Lightweight Window Manager

Phoronix - Mon, 12/27/2021 - 19:40
Carsten Haitzler released a new version of the Enlightenment window manager / shell (and Wayland compositor) for Christmas. Various Enlightenment components have also seen new releases...

Sound Open Firmware 2.0 Released For The Intel-Led Open-Source DSP Stack

Phoronix - Mon, 12/27/2021 - 18:55
It was nearly four years ago already that Intel announced Sound Open Firmware in pushing for open-source sound firmware for their hardware. The Sound Open Firmware effort has been a great success even if it's not a shiny project widely talked about among consumers. Just prior to the holidays Sound Open Firmware 2.0 was quietly released...

Linux Kernel Preparing Support For A More Practical Virtual M68k Machine

Phoronix - Mon, 12/27/2021 - 18:30
When it comes to the Motorola 68000 "m68k" virtual machine targets, the most powerful option under Linux right now is the Quadra 800. That though for virtualization purposes isn't too useful by today's standards with being limited to 1GB of RAM and limited interface support. But a new Virtual M68k Machine aims to provide a more useful target and support has already landed in QEMU while the Linux kernel support is pending...

5 ways open source software transformed business in 2021

opensource.com - Mon, 12/27/2021 - 16:00

Open source software isn't just about creating alternatives to proprietary software. On the business side, open source has become a "force multiplier" to transform how organizations do business. At the same time, more companies have started to adopt more open source methodologies, even in managing teams and processes.

In the last year, we ran many great articles that show how businesses connect with open source software. Here are some of the most-read articles:


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Install Lighttpd with PHP and MariaDB on Rocky/AlmaLinux

Tecmint - Mon, 12/27/2021 - 15:05
The post Install Lighttpd with PHP and MariaDB on Rocky/AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Lighttpd is an open-source, high-performance, super-fast, flexible, and simple to configure secure web server that provides support for the broad technologies that include PHP, FastCGI, Auth, SSL, URL rewriting, reverse proxy, load balancing, and

The post Install Lighttpd with PHP and MariaDB on Rocky/AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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