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Calculate Linux: Gentoo, but for businesses  The Register

Calculate Linux: It's like Gentoo, but for businesses  The Register

Red Hat Planning A Hackfest To Further Advance HDR Support On The Linux Desktop  Phoronix

Red Hat has been among the key Linux stakeholders working for years toward the ultimate goal of ensuring the Linux desktop will have suitable High Dynamic Range (HDR) support in place. They are working to organize a hackfest this year to further the progress being made on HDR application support on the GNOME desktop as well as associated open-source graphics driver infrastructure...

Fault-Tolerant SFTP scripting - Retry Failed Transfers Automatically  Linux Journal

How to Speed Test Your Internet From the Linux Command Line  MUO - MakeUseOf

Lighttpd 1.4.68 was released on Tuesday as the newest version of this lightweight, high performance open-source web server...

Google proclaims official Android RISC-V support - comments  GSMArena.com

How to Host A Monero Node on Tor in Linux  Make Tech Easier

Linux software, steps to migrate Windows from big drive to small drive?  HardForum

Endpoint Security Solutions for the Growing Threat Landscape  BlackBerry Blog

Researchers Discover New Linux Malware Targeting WordPress Sites  OODA Loop

In addition to Fedora 38 now allowing "no-omit-frame-pointer" to enhance profiling/debugging with possible performance costs, this next Fedora Linux release is also planning to use "_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3" compiler defenses to further bolster security...

Humble Choice for January 2023 has DOOM Eternal, a good month ...  GamingOnLinux

AlmaLinux, CentOS Stream, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora & Ubuntu ...  Phoronix

Over the holidays some fun benchmarking was to be had with the dual AMD EPYC 9654 "Genoa" processors providing a combined 192 cores / 384 threads and seeing how various modern Linux distributions were competing for this flagship 4th Gen EPYC server configuration. Up on the testing block was AlmaLinux 9.1, CentOS Stream 9, Clear Linux 37930, Debian 12 Testing, Fedora Server 37, Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, Ubuntu 22.10, and Ubuntu 23.04 daily.

Classic 1990s series Catacomb lives on with the CatacombGL ...  GamingOnLinux

Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team has landed a few patches into Mesa 23.0 for further reducing the CPU overhead of the Vulkan driver's draw path...

AMD Ray Tracing on Linux gets closer with Mesa enabling specific ...  GamingOnLinux

Since GCC 11 there has been support for AMX and the upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPU features, which has been further improved in the open-source compiler over the past two years. GCC 13 meanwhile as the next GNU Compiler Collection release is bringing Meteor Lake and Sierra Forest, Grand Ridge, and Granite Rapids. Basic enablement of Intel's Emerald Rapids meanwhile was merged yesterday for GCC 13 too...