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How to Create Sudo User in openSUSE Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 05/25/2022 - 12:31
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The sudo command allows a user to administer a Linux system with the security privileges of another user, by default, the superuser or root. In this guide, we will walk you through the process

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Customer success stories: Red Hat helps scale automation efforts, 2022 Red Hat Innovation Awards, and more

Red Hat News - Wed, 05/25/2022 - 12:00

In this month’s customer success highlights, you’ll learn how Red Hat solutions and services helped three organizations achieve their goals in three very different types of digital transformation projects.

First, however, we’d like to give a quick shout out to the 2022 Red Hat Innovation Award winners and honorable mentions.

Btrfs Gets Some Buttery Good Improvements With Linux 5.19

Phoronix - Wed, 05/25/2022 - 06:41
David Sterba of SUSE has submitted the ~4k lines of code worth of feature changes for the Btrfs file-system driver in the Linux 5.19 kernel...

Google Chrome 102 Released With Capture Handle, File Handling For Given MIME Types

Phoronix - Wed, 05/25/2022 - 03:12
Google just promoted Chrome 102 to stable as the latest feature update to their cross-platform web browser...

Linux 5.19 Makes It Much Easier To Clear CPUID Features

Phoronix - Wed, 05/25/2022 - 02:40
The Linux x86/x86_64 kernel has long honored the "clearcpuid=" kernel parameter to disable select CPUID features from being used by the kernel or readily advertised. However, it hasn't been very intuitive to use since it relied on passing the bit numbers for the specific features. With Linux 5.19 it's much easier to deal with in now allowing the CPUID string from /proc/cpuinfo to be passed if wanting particular CPUID features disabled...

Vulkan 1.3.215 Released With Barycentric Fragment Shader Extension

Phoronix - Wed, 05/25/2022 - 02:12
Vulkan 1.3.215 is out today with a handful of fixes/clarifications to the Vulkan specification plus one new extension...

Nginx 1.22 Released With OpenSSL 3.0 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 05/25/2022 - 01:54
Nginx as the lightweight web-server known for its speedy performance is out today with the version 1.22 feature release...

Linux Continues Playing Catch Up To Windows For Desktop Hardware Monitoring Support

Phoronix - Wed, 05/25/2022 - 00:00
In recent kernel versions there has been an uptick in new driver activity around improving hardware sensor monitoring support for AMD/Intel desktop motherboards, but still it's generally behind that of the support found under Microsoft Windows. With Linux 5.19 there is more hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem work with improving sensor coverage on various motherboards and other components...

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