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Microsoft To Acquire Activision Blizzard

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 22:00
Microsoft announced plans this morning to acquire Activision Blizzard in a nearly $69 billion (USD) deal...

LVFS Activity Going Wild Ahead Of New Security Disclosure Requiring Firmware Update

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 20:45
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that integrates with Fwupd for delivering firmware updates primarily to Linux users is surging with around three times the normal traffic volume. Unfortunately, this boost in traffic appears to be due to vendor(s) releasing new system firmware updates ahead of disclosing a presumptive security issue...

AMD Radeon Open-Source OpenGL Driver Expands Its Sparse Texture Capabilities

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 18:51
At the end of last year AMD introduced OpenGL sparse texture support into its RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. This functionality for Vega GPUs and newer flipped on ARB_sparse_texture support while now with the very latest Mesa 22.0-devel code ARB_sparse_texture2 is now flipped on too...

Qt Launches Digital Advertising Platform To Integrate Ads Into App UIs

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 18:29
The Qt Company this morning announced Qt Digital Advertising 1.0 as its new ad platform that allows for developers to easily integrate advertising campaigns into Qt-based, cross-platform applications...

NVIDIA CUDA 11.6 Brings Convenient "-arch=native", Defaults To New "GSP" Driver Mode

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 18:23
NVIDIA has released CUDA 11.6 as the latest version of their widely used but proprietary GPU compute stack. With CUDA 11.6 there are some good improvements and new features in store...

Some Older AMD Systems Can Boot Faster On Linux 5.17+

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 18:19
A change merged overnight with the libata subsystem updates for Linux 5.17 means that some older AMD hardware will be able to boot quicker by avoiding an otherwise mandated sleep period...

Folio Improvements For Linux 5.17, Large Folio Patches Posted

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 17:58
Back in November memory folios were merged into Linux 5.16 as a fundamental change to the memory management code. Now for Linux 5.17 there are improvements for folios merged and then out likely for Linux 5.18 is introducing the notion of large folios...

Perform unit tests using GoogleTest and CTest

opensource.com - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 16:01

This article is a follow-up to my last article Set up a build system with CMake and VSCodium.


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How curiosity helped me solve a hardware problem

opensource.com - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 16:00

I typically have a dozen computers up and running on my home network—yes, 12. And I am responsible for several more in other locations. With so many computers, there are always failures of various types, and I ultimately diagnose many of them as hardware problems. But it can be difficult to diagnose which hardware component is causing the issue.


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How to Install Ajenti Control Panel to Manage Linux Servers

Tecmint - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 13:43
The post How to Install Ajenti Control Panel to Manage Linux Servers first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Ajenti is an open-source web-based system management control panel for managing remote Linux system administration tasks from the web browser much similar to the Webmin system administration tool. Ajenti is a much powerful and

The post How to Install Ajenti Control Panel to Manage Linux Servers first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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