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Phoronix Ad-Free/Premium Special For Oktoberfest 2021

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 21:10
While Oktoberfest was once again cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic (then again, due to the state of the ad industry / ad-block users we haven't had any European meet-up / open-source gathering in years), the wiesn would have kicked off this past weekend. So as is tradition, there is the Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest sale where you can join the ad-free service as a reduced rate. If you enjoy the daily, original Linux and open-source content on Phoronix with plenty of benchmarking, you can do so at a reduced rate...

Rust Lands Support For The Motorola 68000 Processors

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 21:02
With the m68k community continuing to be active around supporting the vintage Motorola 68000 series with modern open-source software, Rust has now merged support for these old processors...

AMD Continues CRIU Work To Checkpoint/Restore ROCm Compute Workloads

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 20:21
Earlier this year AMD went public with prototyping CRIU support for Radeon GPUs around ROCm to be able to checkpoint/freeze running compute workloads and to then restore them at a later point. This CRIU focus is driven by their big accelerator needs and forthcoming supercomputers for migrating workloads particularly within containers. AMD continues working on CRIU support for GPUs and last week provided an update on the project...

NVIDIA Prepares The Linux Kernel For Future Laptops With EC-Driven Backlights

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 19:17
NVIDIA is contributing a new open-source driver to the upstream Linux kernel for dealing with upcoming laptops where the backlight controls are handled by the device's embedded controller (EC)...

Red Hat's Upstream Contributions Are Making For A Great Fedora Workstation 35

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 18:00
Fedora Workstation 35 will hopefully be out at the end of October (currently the beta is running behind schedule) and when it does ship it's once again at the bleeding-edge of Linux features. Fedora Workstation 35 is shaping up to be another great release for those interested in a feature-rich desktop experience...

xf86-input-libinput 1.2 Brings Touchpad Gestures, High Resolution Scrolling

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 17:38
For those continuing to make use of the X.Org Server, xf86-input-libinput 1.2 is now available for integrating the latest functionality of libinput input handling library...

Use this Linux command-line tool to learn more about your NVMe drives

opensource.com - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 15:01

NVMe stands for Non-Volatile Memory Express, and it refers to how software and storage communicate across PCIe and other protocols, including TCP. It's an open specification led by a non-profit organization and defines several forms of solid-state storage.

My laptop has an NVMe drive, as does my desktop. And they're fast. I love how quickly my computers boot and how quickly they're able to read and write data. There's no perceptible delay.


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Use Vagrant to test your scripts on different operating systems

opensource.com - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 15:00

I've been happy using Vagrant for quite a while now. I work with several DevOps tools, and installing them all on one system can get complicated. Vagrant lets you do cool things without breaking your system because you don't have to experiment on your production system at all.


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How to Install Joomla on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux

Tecmint - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 14:48
The post How to Install Joomla on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Written in PHP, Joomla is a popular CMS (Content Management System) used for creating stunning websites and blogs using themes, and tons of nifty add-ons. It comes second to WordPress as the most popular

The post How to Install Joomla on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux 5.15-rc2 Released With Many Fixes, Addressing Issues Raised By "-Werror"

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 08:48
Linux 5.15-rc2 is now available as the latest weekly release candidate for this next version of the Linux kernel. Linux 5.15 in turn should be out as stable around the start of November...

HarfBuzz 3.0 Released With Unicode 14.0 Support, More APIs Considered Stable

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 04:11
HarfBuzz 3.0 has been released as a new version of this widely-used, open-source text shaping library that is used by the major Linux desktop environments along with Chrome OS, Java, Android, Chrome, and a plethora of other software projects and UI toolkits...

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