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Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver For Linux  Phoronix

Beginning in Dell's 2021 laptop models they are providing hardware-based "privacy buttons" to disable microphone and camera support. In preparations for more Dell laptops coming to market with these buttons, a Dell privacy driver is being prepared for the Linux kernel...

One of the areas of the Qt 6.0 toolkit with the greatest number of improvements is on the Qt Quick 3D front...

Global Linux Computer Market Expected To Reach Highest CAGR By 2026: Dell, System76, Purism, Slimbook, TUXEDO Computers etc.  TechnoWeekly

Meet DahliaOS: Is This The Fuchsia OS We All Wanted?  Fossbytes

Build 88.0.685.3 brings Mac and Linux changes to the Microsoft Edge Dev Channel  OnMSFT

There's still more than one month to go until the Linux 5.11 merge window kicks off but Intel open-source developers have already submitted their initial batch of kernel graphics driver updates to DRM-Next...

Intel's Initial Graphics Updates For Linux 5.11: More DG1, Integer Scaling, Async Flips  Phoronix

Open source software is everywhere these days—which is great—but how can you be sure that you should trust the software you've downloaded to do what you want? The area of software supply chain management—of which this discussion forms a part—is fairly newly visible in the industry but is growing in importance. I'm going to consider a particular example.

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JavaScript is a popular programming language that started out as a single-threaded, synchronous language, meaning that one step runs after another step without waiting to fetch any external resources or perform any lengthy calculation or process. If the script requires such a resource or calculation, this synchronous behavior results in an error. This blocks all other processes in the queue from running whether or not they were dependent on the step that produced the error.

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With Intel Gen12 Xe-LP / Tiger Lake supporting AV1 accelerated decoding, Intel has provided this support via their open-source media stack on Linux that is then exposed via the Video Acceleration API (VA-API). Intel has now landed their patches for supporting VA-API AV1 decode with FFmpeg...

BpyTOP is another Linux command-line utility for resource monitoring among many other utilities like a top, Htop, Bashtop, etc. bashtop users can expect similar features in bpytop since bpytop is ported from bashtop and

The post BpyTop - Resource Monitoring Tool for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

In addition to OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.10 having just been released, OmniOS v11 r151036 as another operating system long ago derived from OpenSolaris is also out with a big new release...

With the increasing demand in the marketplace for open source technologies, ensuring that the workforce is adequately skilled to meet these demands head-on is a top priority for CIOs. Large organizations are facing a crucial skills gap, which can disrupt delivery capabilities and lead to client dissatisfaction.

Microsoft Edge Dev Build 88.0.685.3 adds support for pre-rendered new tab pages on Linux and more; Changelog  WinCentral

Microsoft Edge Dev Build 88.0.685.3 adds support for pre-rendered new tab pages on Linux and more; Changelog  WinCentral

Emmabuntüs DE3 1.03 Released: An All-In-One GNU/Linux Distribution  Fossbytes

Linux-driven 4K camera SoC targets the low-power AI edge  LinuxGizmos.com

The trek to OpenZFS 2.0 continues with the fifth release candidate now being outed...

HBO Max quietly restored service to Linux users  Ars Technica