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Linux security  Analytics India Magazine

The Linux kernel's random number generator code has been seeing a number of improvements recently led by Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard fame...

Being introduced with Linux 5.18 is the new x86-android-tablets driver that is just used for dealing with quirky Intel-powered Android tablets that were designed around running custom vendor kernels for these consumer electronic devices and never the mainline Linux kernel. This x86-android-tablets driver provides workarounds/quirk handling for improving what would otherwise be a buggy experience when trying to run Linux on these devices...

Intel has released libva 2.14 as the newest version of this VA-API (Video Acceleration API) driver-agnostic library. Notably with libva 2.14 is adding an AV1 encode interface for upcoming GPUs having hardware-accelerated AV1 encode...

How to Run Android Apps on Linux Without Emulator  BollyInside

If you are still using a motherboard with a VIA x86 chipset, it's really long past due to consider upgrading to a newer platform, but if that is not feasible the UniChrome IGP graphics support continues to still be worked on occasionally for Linux in 2022. The OpenChrome driver project remains in a sad state and out-of-tree, but is continuing to see fixes and re-based against newer versions of the Linux kernel...

OpenChrome DRM Driver For Open-Source VIA Continues To See Some Activity In 2022  Phoronix

Squeezing into the GCC 12 compiler release is support for the Shadow Call Stack functionality on 64-bit Arm (AArch64)...

Linux Operating System Market Companies Is Booming Worldwide to Show Significant Growth over the Forecast Period 2022-2028 – ZNews Africa  ZNews Africa

GNOME has a tendency for minimalist design. It's a beautiful desktop experience, and holds the honor of being the first free desktop that's ever elicited vocalized admiration from someone looking over my shoulder as I use Linux. Then again (and pardon the armchair philosophizing), you can't have minimalism without complexity, and KDE is well known for being very customizable.

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Linux's getrandom() Sees A 8450% Improvement With Latest Code  Phoronix

DevOps and DevSecOps require agile documentation practices to deliver quality documentation on time with an iterative software delivery cycle. It's a similar journey to DevOps with a move to automation and a more agile approach to content. If documentation is only now entering your organization's DevOps discussions, it's time to catch your documentation practices up to DevOps.

Here are the four levels of DevOps documentation maturity:

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The post 10 Useful Tools to Create Bootable USB from an ISO Image first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

CD and DVD writers are a thing of the past. You are not likely to find them in modern-day laptops. If your goal is to create a bootable medium, then creating a bootable USB

The post 10 Useful Tools to Create Bootable USB from an ISO Image first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

We’re delighted to welcome Albert Chai to Red Hat as a general manager for Red Hat’s Rest of Southeast Asia (RoSEA) region. In his new role, Albert will be responsible for Red Hat’s business operations in a dynamic region with accelerated growth.

Linux Beats Apple, Microsoft, And Google At Security Patches  Screen Rant

OBS Studio 27.2.1 Improves Camera Support and PipeWire Capture on Linux  9to5Linux

OBS Studio 27.2.1 Improves Camera Support and PipeWire Capture on Linux  9to5Linux

With there being some renewed development interest around FBDEV with the kernel subsystem now having a maintainer, restoring hardware-accelerated scrolling, and other patches pending to clean-up and optimize the frame-buffer device code, there is also a new performance optimization series...

FBDEV Console Patches Optimize Performance - Print Directory Listing ~25% Faster  Phoronix

The 9 Best Linux Network Troubleshooting Commands  MUO - MakeUseOf