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Intel Posts "GSC" Linux Driver To Enable HDCP Media Protection For Discrete GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 12/15/2021 - 22:19
Intel Linux engineers have posted a new set of patches enabling the Graphics Security Controller "GSC" support under Linux as a chassis controller for discrete graphics cards...

The End-Of-Year 2021 State Of Linux On Apple's M1 SoC

Phoronix - Wed, 12/15/2021 - 20:39
The Asahi Linux project has published their October and November status update to provide an overview of where the Apple Silicon / Apple M1 open-source support is now at as we approach the end of 2021...

Intel Raptor Lake S Graphics Ready For Linux 5.17, Alder Lake P Now Considered Stable

Phoronix - Wed, 12/15/2021 - 18:37
Intel's stellar open-source graphics driver team sent in their latest batch of feature updates to DRM-Next for staging ahead of next month's Linux 5.17 cycle kicking off. Notable with this pull among other changes is initial support for next-generation Raptor Lake S graphics while Alder Lake P graphics are considered stable / promoted from being behind the experimental flag...

Binary Blobs Continue To Prove Challenging For POWER10 Plus Very Expensive Motherboards

Phoronix - Wed, 12/15/2021 - 17:00
While POWER CPUs have generally been well received by the free software community for being open-source friendly especially with the OpenPOWER Foundation, IBM's latest-generation POWER10 processors are continuing to be an upset...

How to Install Samba Server in RHEL, CentOS and Fedora

Tecmint - Wed, 12/15/2021 - 16:33
The post How to Install Samba Server in RHEL, CentOS and Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Samba is an open-source and most popular widely used program that enables end-users to access Linux shared directory from any Windows machine on the same network. Samba is also named as a network file

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Deploy Mycroft AI voice assistant on Raspberry Pi using Ansible

opensource.com - Wed, 12/15/2021 - 16:01

Mycroft AI is a virtual assistant application that can respond to verbal requests and complete tasks such as searching the Internet for some information you need, or downloading your favorite podcast, and so on. It's a fine piece of open source software that, unlike similar software from companies in the business of harvesting personal data, provides privacy and platform flexibility.


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4 ways you can edit a PDF with the pdftk-java command

opensource.com - Wed, 12/15/2021 - 16:00

Between technology whitepapers, manuscripts, and RPG books, I deal with lots of PDFs every day. The PDF format is popular because it contains processed PostScript code. PostScript is the native language of modern printers, so publishers often release a digital version of a book as a PDF because they've invested in the time and effort to produce a file for print anyway. But a PDF isn't intended to be an editable format, and while some reverse processing is possible, it's meant to be the last stop for digital data before it's sent to the printer.


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QEMU 6.2 Released With Intel SGX VM Support, Apple Silicon Compatible For macOS Hosts

Phoronix - Wed, 12/15/2021 - 15:00
QEMU 6.2 is now officially available as the newest feature release for this widely used key open-source component to the Linux virtualization stack...

10 lsof Command Examples in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 12/15/2021 - 14:36
The post 10 lsof Command Examples in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

This is our ongoing series of Linux commands and in this article, we are going to review lsof command with practical examples. lsof meaning ‘LiSt Open Files’ is used to find out which files

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