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Building A Silent Linux Desktop For 2022 With The Streacom DB4

Phoronix - Thu, 01/20/2022 - 21:00
The long time Phoronix reader, with an excellent long-term memory, may remember an odd article from back in August 2017 on buying a passively cooled computer. It tells the tale of the consumer who decided to buy a rather niche, fanless, therefore passively cooled computer.

Intel's Unaccepted Memory Support Updated For Substantially Faster Booting Of TDX VMs

Phoronix - Thu, 01/20/2022 - 19:42
Way back in August Intel posted a set of Linux kernel patches for supporting "unaccepted memory" by the Linux kernel in preparation for next-generation Xeon processors and speeding up the boot time for guest virtual machines making use of Intel's Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) security feature. Unaccepted memory support hasn't yet made it to the mainline kernel but now a second iteration of the patches have been posted...

Linux 5.17 Making It Easier To Build A Kernel With All The Shiny Debug Features

Phoronix - Thu, 01/20/2022 - 19:19
Over the years the Linux kernel has picked up many different sanitizers, memory leak detectors, and other features for helping to diagnose and address deficiencies in the kernel. However, all of these debugging-optimized features aren't centrally located that can make it difficult for system administrators and developers to spot these numerous features when configuring a kernel build manually. Now with Linux 5.17 that is changing...

AMD SMCA Updates Land In Linux 5.17 For Future CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 01/20/2022 - 19:02
Last week I noted about EDAC changes in Linux 5.17 for future AMD CPUs. The "Error Detection and Correction" work included AMD adding RDDR5 / LRDDR5 support to their driver and new CPU model IDs that appear to be for Zen 4. Also working on next-gen AMD processor support in Linux 5.17 are recent SMCA changes...

Solve network fragmentation with MTU

opensource.com - Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:01

During the implementation of OpenStack workloads, a common issue is fragmentation throughout the network, causing unforeseen performance issues. Fragmentation is normally difficult to address because networks can get complex, so the path of packets can be hard to trace or predict.


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How to back your open source project's stack

opensource.com - Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:00

On GivingTuesday, the Mautic project—an open source marketing automation platform—shared its intention to allocate part of its budget each year to financially support the other open source projects on which it depends, as part of the Back Your Stack initiative.


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Webmin – A Web Based System Administration Tool for Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 01/20/2022 - 13:40
The post Webmin – A Web Based System Administration Tool for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Webmin is an open-source web-based system configuration tool for Linux system administration. With the help of this tool, we can manage internal system configuration such as setting up user accounts, disk quotas, services configuration

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Building better businesses: Announcing our Red Hat EMEA Digital Leaders 2021

Red Hat News - Thu, 01/20/2022 - 13:00

Life moves fast. Innovation moves faster. We’re all in a rush to keep up. Every now and then, it’s important to hit the pause button and reflect on achievements. Reflection isn’t just good for the soul. The accomplishments of others can be the gateway to our own progress. By taking inspiration and learnings from others, we can overcome organizational groupthink, draw on a more diverse pool of ideas and experiences, and shortcut our way to solutions and success.

Genode OS Planning For WireGuard, Mobile Usability With The PinePhone

Phoronix - Thu, 01/20/2022 - 13:00
I've been writing about Genode OS for over a decade as one of the interesting original, open-source operating system frameworks that has taken novel approaches to many design elements and continues persevering with their efforts. For 2022 the project has yet more ambitious goals ahead...

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