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Genode OS 22.02 Improves Ability To Use Linux Device Drivers, Adds VirtualBox 3D Guests

Phoronix - Tue, 03/01/2022 - 19:21
Genode OS continues to be developed as an innovative open-source operating system framework. Genode developers closed out February by issuing the Genode OS Framework 22.02 release with many new features and improvements...

Intel Continues Linux Preparations For Xe HP Compute Accelerators

Phoronix - Tue, 03/01/2022 - 19:08
While Intel's DG2/Alchemist Arc graphics card support with the open-source Linux driver stack appears to be getting into shape with the latest upstream code ahead of the graphics cards expected to ship next quarter, the Xe HP compute accelerator support remains very much a work-in-progress for the open-source Intel Linux kernel driver...

Steam Deck, GNOME 42 Advancements & AMD Linux Updates Excited Readers In February

Phoronix - Tue, 03/01/2022 - 18:21
During the course of February on Phoronix were 236 original news articles covering the state of open-source affairs and Linux performance. While the pandemic seems to be lightening up, sadly the ad industry is still in a downward state, but in any event here is a look at the most popular Phoronix content for the past month...

Smartmontools 7.3 Released For Monitoring Disk Drive SMART Status

Phoronix - Tue, 03/01/2022 - 16:00
Smartmontools 7.3 was released as the first update to this open-source package in more than one year for providing a utility (smartctl) and daemon (smartd) for monitoring the SMART capabilities built into modern (S)ATA / NVMe / SCSI / SAS disk drives...

4 Vim features to use to improve productivity

opensource.com - Tue, 03/01/2022 - 16:00

There's always Vim. Vim is one of the most popular text editors in use today. This is in large part because it's available everywhere. When you SSH into another system, you may not find EmacsNano, or VSCodium installed, but you can rest assured that Vim is there for you. 


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Boost your home network with DNS caching on the edge

opensource.com - Tue, 03/01/2022 - 16:00

If you've been hearing a lot of talk about "the cloud" over the past several years, then you may also have heard rumblings about something called "the edge."


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How to Convert a /Home Directory to Partition in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 03/01/2022 - 13:54
The post How to Convert a /Home Directory to Partition in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

This topic might seem a bit peculiar. I mean, why should you convert your home directory into a separate partition? Whenever you are installing Linux, the installer already selects the ‘guided‘ partitioning by default.

The post How to Convert a /Home Directory to Partition in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

OpenShift at the core of stc’s digital transformation strategy

Red Hat News - Tue, 03/01/2022 - 13:00

In mid-2020, stc embarked on an ambitious project to pivot away from being a communications service provider (CSP) to become a comprehensive digital service provider (DSP). Here's a closer look at this project, the challenges they encountered, and how they leveraged Red Hat products and services towards achieving these transformative business objectives.

Wasmer 2.2 Released With AArch64 Improvements, SSE 4.2 Support For Singlepass

Phoronix - Tue, 03/01/2022 - 13:00
Wasmer 2.2 was released on Monday for this WebAssembly (WASM) run-time that aims to "run any code on any client" with this open-source stack working across operating systems / platforms and supporting a variety of programming languages...

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