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NVIDIA 495 Linux Beta Driver Released With GBM Support

Phoronix - Thu, 10/14/2021 - 21:36
NVIDIA 495.29.05 is out today as the first public Linux driver in the 495 series...

OpenBSD 7.0 Released With RISC-V 64-bit Port, Better Apple Silicon Support

Phoronix - Thu, 10/14/2021 - 21:00
Not only is Ubuntu 21.10 releasing today but over on the BSD side of the table is the debut this morning of OpenBSD 7.0...

9-Way H2'2021 Linux OS Performance Comparison On Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 10/14/2021 - 20:30
While we recently looked at autumn 2021 Linux distributions on Intel Tiger Lake for seeing how these various latest distributions are competing on client platforms, in today's article is a look at how well the latest Linux distributions perform when using the latest-generation Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen "Ice Lake" server hardware with two Xeon Platinum 8380 processors. AlmaLinux, Arch Linux, CentOS Stream, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu were battling it out on this Intel reference server.

KDE Plasma 5.23 Released In Marking 25 Years Of KDE

Phoronix - Thu, 10/14/2021 - 18:22
KDE Plasma 5.23 is officially out this morning as the newest major open-source desktop release and is known now as the KDE 25th Anniversary Edition...

Qt Creator 6 Beta Released With Updated C++ Code Model, Binaries Built Against Qt 6.2

Phoronix - Thu, 10/14/2021 - 18:15
With Qt 6.2 LTS having shipped at the end of September, The Qt Company is now turning their attention to Qt Creator 6 as the next version of their Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment...

openSUSE Leap ISOs To See Regular Respins For Integrating Latest Updates

Phoronix - Thu, 10/14/2021 - 17:27
Moving forward regular respins of the openSUSE Leap images are expected to include the latest package updates in making for a more pleasant out-of-the-box experience...

9 ways to use open source every day

opensource.com - Thu, 10/14/2021 - 15:01

Recently I was invited to present on free and open resources that are available on the web. This presentation was part of a local effort to keep our community working—sponsored by the Foster Center at St. Bonaventure University near my home. Some of the resources I shared were not open source and merely cost $0, but many of the tools were also open source.


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5 common bugs in C programming and how to fix them

opensource.com - Thu, 10/14/2021 - 15:00

Even the best programmers can create programming bugs. Depending on what your program does, these bugs could introduce security vulnerabilities, cause the program to crash, or create unexpected behavior.

The C programming language sometimes gets a bad reputation because it is not memory safe like more recent programming languages, including Rust. But with a little extra code, you can avoid the most common and most serious C programming bugs. Here are five bugs that can break your application and how you can avoid them:


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