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It's been over one month since the release of AMDVLK 2021.Q4.1 as the latest open-source AMD Vulkan driver update, which is off the wagon compared to the prior weekly/bi-weekly release cadence. But today thankfully it's been succeeded by AMDVLK 2021.Q4.2 as the newest driver release...

AMDVLK 2021.Q4.2 Released With Dynamic Rendering, Other New Extensions  Phoronix

Install VNC Server on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04 LTS to access GNOME  H2S Media

Install VNC Server on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04 LTS to access GNOME  Linux Shout

AMD Adds Further Zen 4 CPU Support In Linux Patches, Enables RDDR5 & LRDDR5 For EPYC CPU With Up To 12-Channels  Wccftech

Using GPG to Encrypt and Decrypt Files on Linux [Hands-on for Beginners]  It's FOSS

In film post-production, there's a phase called compositing, which puts the actual footage in a camera with footage generated purely by software. What that actually means to the compositing artist depends on the movie. Sometimes there are just a few overlays, other times there's some minor special effect like laser beams or explosions, sometimes it's a green screen, and still other times it's a little bit of everything. Most video editing applications can do basic compositing.

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I'm a huge fan of open source.

One of the little ways I've supported the cause is by keeping my personal blog site open from the very beginning. I do this partly to let people see the history of changes behind each page. But I also do it because, when I started using Jekyll, I didn't find many open source Jekyll blogs to learn from. My hope is that keeping my website open and exposing my trials and errors will save someone else a lot of time.

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The post 10 Linux Dig (Domain Information Groper) Commands to Query DNS first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In our previous article, we have explained nslookup command examples and usage, which is a networking command-line tool used for querying and getting information of DNS (Domain Name System). Here, in this article, we

The post 10 Linux Dig (Domain Information Groper) Commands to Query DNS first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Displaying images from shell - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

The post 8 Linux Nslookup Commands to Troubleshoot DNS (Domain Name Server) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

nslookup is a command-line administrative tool for testing and troubleshooting DNS servers (Domain Name Server). It is used to query specific DNS resource records (RR) as well. Most operating systems come with a built-in

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Patches started earlier this year for allowing the parallel bring-up of secondary CPU cores for x86_64 processors have gotten back to being worked on and were sent out on Thursday for review...

Kali Linux 2021.4 released with 9 new tools, further Apple M1 support  BleepingComputer

While earlier this year AMD dropped pre-Polaris support from their mainline Radeon Software Windows driver, under Linux with open-source software older GPUs can live on much longer with superior driver support... Pending for Mesa 22.0 and as a surprise Christmas gift for those with nearly two decade old GPUs, a big optimization is pending for those with ATI Radeon R300/R400/R500 series graphics cards still in operation...

Radeon Linux Driver Has A Huge Optimization Two Decades Later For ATI R300~R500 GPUs  Phoronix

Systemd 250 is gearing up for release this month and today marked the availability of the first release candidate (and RC2 as a brown paper bag update). Systemd 250 is packing a rather large number of new features and changes across the board for this dominant Linux init system and service manager...

systemd 250 Is Coming For Christmas With A Boat Load Of New Features  Phoronix

How to Make and Implement Bash Scripts on Linux  BollyInside

Sifive Essential 6-Series RISC-V processors target Linux, real-time applications  CNX Software

Open source fuels the world’s innovation, yet building impactful, innovative, high-quality, and secure software at scale can be challenging when meeting the growing requirements of open source communities. Over the past two decades, we have learned that ecosystem building is complex. A solution was needed to help communities manage themselves with the proper toolsets in key functional domains.

From infrastructure to legal and compliance, from code security to marketing, our experience in project governance among communities within the Linux Foundation has accumulated years of expertise and proven best practices. As a result, we have spent the year productizing the LFX Platform, a suite of tools engineered to grow and sustain and grow the communities of today and build the communities of tomorrow. 

LFX: The Open Source Community Management Toolsuite for Continued Growth

The LFX Platform tools provide our members and projects with tools to support every stage of an open source project, from funding to community management to application security. LFX is built to support the needs of all community participants; maintainers, contributors, community managers, security professionals, marketers, and more.

• Open source communities need access to better tools to scale.
• Developers need to be able to make effective code contributions, scan for security vulnerabilities, and deploy.
• Community managers need to facilitate meetings, host meet-ups online or in-person, support governing boards, and decide on proper governance structures.
• Project leadership needs to be responsive, provide support, engage in training, and promote their latest developments. 

We aim to help reduce the complexity of building and managing open source ecosystems by delivering a new platform that brings people, information, tools, and supporting programs together.

We want to invite you to explore LFX. First, create your LFID needed to login. Then jump into experiencing LFX elements such as your Individual Dashboard, Mentorship, EasyCLA, Insights, or Security. The LFX platform provides open source communities the following areas of key functionality:

LFX Platform Key Functional Areas LFX Platform: New Features and Capabilities

Global Trends and Compare Projects capabilities extend LFX insights with new reports and enable community members to easily answer common questions about their open source ecosystem or quickly compare open source communities to identify and drive best practices.

Global Trends and Compare Projects Dashboards

Security Vulnerabilities and Code Secrets Scanning, with Remediation powered by Snyk and BluBracket, is now available in LFX Security. Enabling communities to automatically scan code and detect potential vulnerabilities or exposed code secrets then recommend fixes to remediate the identified issues.

Security Vulnerabilities and Code Secrets Scanning with Remediation

Non-Inclusive Language Detection is now a part of LFX Security through integration with BluBracket, enabling the identification and elimination of non-inclusive language to attract and retain more participants and deliver on the power and promise of more diverse and inclusive open source communities.

Non-Inclusive Language Detection Console Tool Highlight: LFX Security

The world’s most critical infrastructure is built on open source, and therefore the security of open source software is essential. LFX Security builds on the Core Infrastructure Initiative and the Open Source Security Foundation and years of learned security best practices to provide communities with the capabilities required to secure their code continuously. LFX Security is powered by integrations with leading security vendors and supports existing tools and languages.

• Automatic vulnerability scanning, with recommended fixes and inline remediation
• Risk analysis with intuitive and informative scoring 
• Automatic detection of potential code secrets
• Identification of non-inclusive language in code 

Learn more about LFX Security at lfx.dev/tools/security

Tool Highlight: LFX Insights

Successful open source communities require effective management of everything from code quality and build to collaboration and marketing. But to manage them effectively, data has to be gathered across disparate repositories, tools, and activities. LFX Insights integrates data from source code repositories to issue trackers, social media platforms to mailing lists and contextualizes projects, project groups, or the entire Linux Foundation ecosystem.

Learn more about LFX Insights at lfx.dev/tools/insights

The LFX platform is designed to address these issues and more. LFX aggregates dozens of data sources and commonly used management. It provides visualization tools with an added layer of intelligence to reveal best practices for numerous open source stakeholders, including developers, project leaders, open source program offices, legal, operations, and even marketing. 

LFX is a suite of elements engineered to grow and sustain and grow the communities of today and build the communities of tomorrow. By automating and consolidating many of the most critical activities needed by open source projects and stakeholders, we hope to reduce complexities that sometimes hinder innovation and progress. 

The LFX platform provides our members and project with tools to support every stage of an open source project. As we head into 2022, we plan to release even more functionality to support our growing community.

Create your LFID and Explore LFX at lfx.linuxfoundation.org

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