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10 Wget (Linux File Downloader) Command Examples in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 16:29
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In this article, we are going to review the wget utility which retrieves files from World Wide Web (WWW) using widely used protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and FTPS. Wget is a free command-line

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Open source design collaboration with Penpot

opensource.com - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 16:00

When a team of designers works together on a project, one of the most important goals is consistency. Whether you need a consistent look because of a corporate identity or just for visual cohesion, the look and layout of pages and screens must be reasonably similar within any given project. It's hard enough to do this as a solo artist, and it gets more complex with added contributors. It becomes a monumental task when several mock-ups from a design team must be approved by a client, signed off by an accessibility expert, and then translated by a team of programmers.


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OpenBLAS 0.3.19 Released With Alder Lake & Sapphire Rapids Detection

Phoronix - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 13:00
OpenBLAS as the popular, open-source BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library implementation posted its newest release on Sunday...

Linux 5.16-rc6 Kernel Released

Phoronix - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 08:00
Linus Torvalds has released the sixth weekly release candidate of Linux 5.16 for testing this Christmas week...

AMD P-State CPU Frequency Control Driver Revised A 6th Time

Phoronix - Mon, 12/20/2021 - 01:10
Making a Sunday debut are the amd-pstate v6 patches as the latest iteration of this work for improving the AMD CPU frequency control behavior on Linux for more optimized power efficiency with modern Zen 2 / Zen 3 series (and future) processors...

Linux 5.17 Bringing New Driver For Some NZXT Lighting/Fan Controls & Monitoring

Phoronix - Sun, 12/19/2021 - 22:20
Thanks to the reverse-engineering, open-source community there has been mainline Linux driver support for select NZXT all-in-one water cooling solutions while for the upcoming Linux 5.17 kernel is another new NZXT driver for some of their other products...

FUSE Introducing Per-File DAX Option With Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Sun, 12/19/2021 - 18:34
Last year with Linux 5.10 FUSE added DAX support for use with VirtIO-FS. Like with DAX for other file-systems, enabling this direct access mode allows bypassing the page cache. For use-cases when running on persistent memory like devices or VirtIO, having this direct access to the storage device can be beneficial for performance. With Linux 5.17 FUSE is expanding the DAX support to allow per-inode control as well...

Ubuntu Developers Figuring Out Dual-Boot Changes Ahead Of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Phoronix - Sun, 12/19/2021 - 18:10
Due to changes with the upstream GRUB 2.06 bootloader, Ubuntu developers are figuring out how they are going to be managing dual-boot/multi-boot scenarios moving forward with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS...

Open source file sharing with this Linux tool

opensource.com - Sun, 12/19/2021 - 16:01

In the early days of my Linux experience, I was the technology director of a small PreK-12 school district in the state of New York. Our technology budget was always stretched to the limit. We were a Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain, but we had limited central server disk space and no teacher home directories. In addition, we experienced a dozen or so hard disk failures for staff computers.


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