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How to Utilise the findmnt Command on Linux - BollyInside

Google News - Sun, 04/17/2022 - 02:40

How to Utilise the findmnt Command on Linux BollyInside

Box86 0.2.6 / Box64 0.1.8 Released With Working Steam & Steam Play On Non-x86 CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 04/17/2022 - 00:47

Box86/Box64 is out with new versions today for this open-source project getting x86/x86_64 binaries running on other architectures like Arm and possibly RISC-V and more moving forward. Exciting with Box86 v0.2.6 and Box64 v0.1.8 is getting Steam and Steam Play working for at least the basics...

How to Change File Permissions on Linux PC - BollyInside

Google News - Sun, 04/17/2022 - 00:08

How to Change File Permissions on Linux PC BollyInside

LXQt 1.1 Released With XDG Desktop Portal Integration, Other New Features

Phoronix - Sat, 04/16/2022 - 23:57

In time for making your open-source Easter basket is the release of LXQt 1.1 as the newest feature release to this open-source, Qt-based desktop environment born out of the merging of the former Razor-qt and LXDE projects...

How to Type Faster and Increase Your Productivity Using Espanso - MUO - MakeUseOf

Google News - Sat, 04/16/2022 - 21:45

How to Type Faster and Increase Your Productivity Using Espanso MUO - MakeUseOf

Intel Adding Linux Idle Driver Support For Alder Lake

Phoronix - Sat, 04/16/2022 - 20:00

While Intel Alder Lake has been out for roughly a half-year now and has been working out well on Linux particularly with v5.16+ kernels, the "intel_idle" driver for CPU idle time management hasn't supported these latest Intel desktop/mobile processors but now there is that support on the way for possible power-savings benefits...

How To Kill a Process in Linux - Tom's Hardware

Google News - Sat, 04/16/2022 - 20:00

How To Kill a Process in Linux Tom's Hardware

GNU C Library Dropping Various SSSE3 Optimized Code Paths

Phoronix - Sat, 04/16/2022 - 18:03

The latest GNU C Library (Glibc) development code this week has begun dropping various SSSE3 optimized code paths...

MediaTek Preparing Stateless AV1 Video Linux Decode Driver For Newer SoCs

Phoronix - Sat, 04/16/2022 - 18:01

MediaTek this week posted their initial "request for comments" code on stateless AV1 decoder support for their video codec driver...

Huawei Working On UEFI Mirrored Memory Support For Linux AArch64

Phoronix - Sat, 04/16/2022 - 17:55

Since 2015 the Linux kernel has supported UEFI mirrored memory functionality for x86/x86_64 while now Huawei is working on adding that functionality for AArch64...

GNU Coreutils 9.1 Released With Efficiency Enhancements

Phoronix - Sat, 04/16/2022 - 17:42

GNU Coreutils 9.1 is out this weekend as the latest feature update to these widely-used core utilities on Linux and other platforms with supplying cp, cat, ls, and other common commands...