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Ubuntu Had A Great Year In Switching To Wayland, Continued Commercial Success

Phoronix - Thu, 12/30/2021 - 20:15
Ubuntu and parent company Canonical had another great year not only on the Linux desktop but continuing its commercial successes around the server, cloud, and IoT sectors too. Ubuntu 21.04 and 21.10 delivered new features across all fronts this year and developers are now busy preparing for the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release next spring...

RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Adds Sparse Texture Support For GFX9/Vega & Newer

Phoronix - Thu, 12/30/2021 - 19:10
As one of the last major feature changes heading into Mesa Git this calendar year, RadeonSI Gallium3D as the open-source OpenGL driver for modern AMD Radeon GPUs there is now sparse texture support...

Recapping Intel's Open-Source/Linux Achievements For 2021

Phoronix - Thu, 12/30/2021 - 18:38
It was another exciting year for Intel on the open-source/Linux front with countless contributions to the Linux kernel, Mesa, and other open-source projects. Intel's oneAPI toolkits continue humming along and they continue maintaining tons of other projects from Clear Linux to SVT-AV1 to IWD and many more. Intel's Linux graphics driver developers have also been extremely busy preparing the open-source support for next year's discrete GPU launches. Here is a look at the most popular Intel articles on Phoronix during the course of 2021...

OpenRGB 0.7 Released With Many More Devices Supported, Improved Settings

Phoronix - Thu, 12/30/2021 - 18:16
OpenRGB 0.7 is out as the newest feature release for this vendor-independent software that provides for RGB lighting controls for many different devices/brands and works across Linux / macOS / Windows...

OBS Studio 27.2 Beta Brings SVT-AV1 Support, Official Flatpak Support

Phoronix - Thu, 12/30/2021 - 17:49
In preparing for an exciting 2022, the OBS Studio open-source software that is popular with game streamers and for other screencasting purposes, is out with its first beta of OBS Studio 27.2. This next update to OBS Studio is bringing some exciting improvements for this leading cross-platform streaming solution...

12 inspiring examples of open source in education this year

opensource.com - Thu, 12/30/2021 - 16:00

Open source has a learning solution for you no matter where you are on the education continuum. This year our writers provided readers with a wide variety of articles that spanned that spectrum from PreK-12 to higher education. Here are 12 you won't want to miss:


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Disable or Enable SSH Root Login and Limit SSH Access in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 12/30/2021 - 12:06
The post Disable or Enable SSH Root Login and Limit SSH Access in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Everyone knows that Linux systems come with root user access and by default, root access is enabled for the outside world. For security reasons, it’s not a good idea to have ssh root access

The post Disable or Enable SSH Root Login and Limit SSH Access in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Mesa 21.3.3 Released With Fixes For Old ATI R300~R500 GPUs, RADV Fixes Too

Phoronix - Thu, 12/30/2021 - 08:35
For those sticking to stable Mesa point releases, Mesa 21.3.3 is out today to close out the year. Notable with Mesa 21.3.3 is the large number of fixes for older ATI Radeon R300 through R500 (X1000 series) GPU fixes with the R300 Gallium3D driver...

GCC 12 Adds Support For Using The Mold Linker

Phoronix - Thu, 12/30/2021 - 03:47
A small but noteworthy change that landed today for the GCC 12 compiler itself is support for using the Mold linker...

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