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Firefox 86.0 Released With Total Cookie Protection, Stack Clash Protection

Phoronix - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 23:02
Firefox 86.0 is out today as the latest monthly update to this open-source web browser that continues to work on ramping up its security offerings...

Radeon RADV Driver Enables Displayable DCC For Some Performance Benefit

Phoronix - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 21:58
The open-source Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has now enabled displayable DCC (Delta Color Compression) support that should yield some performance benefit while there still is more work to be completed...

Sony PlayStation DualSense Driver Headlines The HID Updates For Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 20:32
The HID subsystem updates were sent in this morning for the ongoing Linux 5.12 merge window...

Libinput 1.17 Brings New Debugging Tool, 2/3 Finger Tap-And-Drag

Phoronix - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 19:32
Libinput 1.17 is out as the newest version of this Wayland/X.Org input handling library for the Linux desktop...

GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Beta Released With Wayland Improvements, Overview Redesign

Phoronix - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 18:58
GNOME 40 beta is coming together with the GNOME Shell and Mutter components having seen new releases on Monday...

A guide to Python virtual environments with virtualenvwrapper

opensource.com - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 16:01

For some time, Python has included support for managing virtual environments. Python 3.3 even added the built-in venv module for creating environments without third-party libraries. Python programmers use several different tools to manage their environments, and the one I use is called virtualenvwrapper.


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What makes the Linux community special?

opensource.com - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 16:00

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. The community is a cornerstone reason to use Linux.

Many a Linux user has said that the key feature of Linux is its community. That might seem strange to a new user because "community" is a pretty popular term these days. There are actual jobs for building and managing communities. With communities seemingly a dime a dozen, what makes the Linux community unique?


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How To Prevent PHP-FPM From Consuming Too Much RAM in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 14:04
The post How To Prevent PHP-FPM From Consuming Too Much RAM in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you have deployed a LEMP (Linux, NGINX, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP) stack, then you are probably using FastCGI proxying within NGINX (as an HTTP server), for PHP processing. PHP-FPM (an acronym of FastCGI Process

The post How To Prevent PHP-FPM From Consuming Too Much RAM in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Introducing Red Hat Vulnerability Scanner Certification

Red Hat News - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 13:00

As container and Kubernetes adoption in production has grown, concerns regarding container security, monitoring, data management and networking remain. In order to address these challenges, organizations must lay a secure foundation for modern workloads. Red Hat is an established leader in security for enterprise open source solutions - container security is Linux security.

dav1d 0.8.2 AV1 Decoder Showing Nice Uplift On Intel, AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 02/23/2021 - 13:00
Released yesterday was dav1d 0.8.2 as a fairly significant update to this AV1 CPU-based decoder. For those wondering what this update means for performance, here are some initial benchmarks...

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