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FontOnLake: Previously unknown malware family targeting Linux  We Live Security

Intel's CM Compiler is out with its first big update since earlier in the year for advancing their "C For Metal" GPU programming language effort...

How to install Gfortran 9, 10 or 11 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  H2S Media

Somewhat of a surprising change with Intel Gen12.5 graphics is that they have removed the hardware supporting Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC). Intel's Linux graphics driver has now been updated to address Gen12.5+ foregoing hardware support for ASTC texture compression...

Best and Cheap VPS Server Hosting in Dubai Provider Linux | Windows | TheServerHost  Pro News Report

The GNU toolchain (initially with the GNU Assembler) has begun landing support for RISC-V's Zbs instructions that are part of the Bitmanip extension to the processor ISA...

Logs are great for finding out what an application is doing or troubleshooting a possible problem. Almost every application we deal with generates logs, and we want the applications we develop ourselves to generate them too. The more verbose the logs, the more information we have. But left to themselves, logs can grow to an unmanageable size, and they can, in turn, become a problem of their own. So it's a good idea to keep them trimmed down, keep the ones we're going to need, and archive the rest.

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Linux is now ‘usable as a basic desktop’ for M1 Macs  9to5Mac

DevSecOps is another step in the DevOps journey for your organization. Breaking down your transformation into phases facilitates working directly with developers and other team members. A phased approach also allows you to get feedback from those affected by the change and iterate as necessary.

Here are the first three phases of a DevSecOps transformation:

Phase 1: analysis, education, and training

In phase 1, you do the preliminary work necessary to make DevSecOps the next step in your DevOps journey.

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How to Install Vivaldi Browser on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distributions  It's FOSS

Editor’s note: Paul Cormier, Red Hat's president and chief executive officer, shared the following email with Red Hat associates today.

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For the better part of the past decade Google has been pursuing performance improvements to their Chrome/Chromium web browser as the "RenderingNG" initiative to provide faster web page performance, lower memory consumption, and better battery life. This current work is finally wrapping up in 2021 to great success...

NVIDIA today published their newest Vulkan beta driver update for Windows and Linux with some new extension support plus Vulkan Video enhancements...

Linux Finally Runs on Apple's M1-Based Computer Natively  Tom's Hardware

Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14: Linux notebook lightweight with GeForce RTX 3050 Ti  Market Research Telecast

What's new with the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11  Windows Central

FWUPD and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) continue to serve as a resounding open-source success for allowing an increasing amount of hardware to support firmware updates on Linux from system/motherboard UEFI to disk drives and various peripherals. LVFS is now serving up more than two million firmware downloads a month while FWUPD 1.7 is out today with supporting firmware updates on even more hardware...

Next month's release of Chrome 96 is a bit more exciting now thanks to the work of Jan Grulich at Red Hat...

Red Hat today made available the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 (RHEL 8.5) beta, incorporating a half-year of improvements to this flagship enterprise Linux distribution...

The Soul of the Movement: 30 Years of Linux (Part 2)  Marketscreener.com