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With the Linux 5.15 merge window out of the way, the first drm-misc-next pull request has been sent in to DRM-Next for staging until the Linux 5.16 merge window opens up about two months from now...

The latest work landing for Mesa 21.3 is supporting FP16 within the LLVM-based software driver code namely for the LLVMpipe Gallium3D OpenGL and Lavapipe Vulkan drivers...

The post How to Setup SSH Passwordless Login in Linux [3 Easy Steps] first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

SSH (Secure SHELL) is an open-source and most trusted network protocol that is used to log in to remote servers for the execution of commands and programs. It is also used to transfer files

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There are many times when you need to wait for something to finish, such as:

• A file download.
• Creating or extracting a tar file.
• An Ansible job.

Some of these processes have some sort of progress indication, but sometimes the process is run through a layer of abstraction, and the only way to measure the progress is through its side effects. Some of these might be:

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Ruby, unlike Python, makes lots of things implicit, and there's a special kind of if expression that demonstrates this well. It's often referred to as an "inline-if" or "conditional modifier", and this special syntax is able to return one value when a condition is true, but another value (nil, specifically) when a condition is false. Here's an example:

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It's been known that Google has been using the open-source "MSM" DRM/KMS driver on Qualcomm-powered devices that originally started out as a reverse-engineered driver project separate from the company. Now it's also been confirmed how Google is successfully using the open-source Mesa Freedreno OpenGL and TURNIP Vulkan drivers on Qualcomm-powered Chromebooks too...

NumPy, or Numerical Python, is a library that makes it easy to do statistical and set operations on linear series and matrices in Python. It is orders of magnitude faster than Python lists, which I covered in my notes on Python Data Types. NumPy is used quite frequently in data analysis and scientific calculations.

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The post 15 Practical Examples of ‘echo’ command in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The echo command is one of the most commonly and widely used built-in commands for Linux bash and C shells, that typically used in a scripting language and batch files to display a line

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The post 15 Basic ‘ls’ Command Examples in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

ls command is one of the most frequently used commands in Linux. I believe the ls command is the first command you may use when you get into the command prompt of Linux Box.

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What’s New in Linux Kernel 5.14: 8 Major Improvements  MUO - MakeUseOf

The post 3 Ways to Find Out Which Process Listening on a Particular Port first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

A port is a logical entity that represents an endpoint of communication and is associated with a given process or service in an operating system. In previous articles, we explained how to find out

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The latest area where BPF is looking to expand within the Linux kernel is its CFS scheduler...

Mozilla VPN adds advanced privacy features: Custom DNS servers and Multi-hop  Mozilla & Firefox

$150 "Qux" gadget sure looks a lot like this generic Linux TV box that wholesalers list for $15  Boing Boing

While Microsoft has long had WGL as an API analogous to EGL for residing between OpenGL and the Windows interfaces, Microsoft has now wired up an EGL implementation for Mesa that works on Windows...

Purism Librem 5 Linux smartphone is getting another (big) price hike  Liliputing

Trend Micro Detected Nearly 13 Million Malware Events Targeting Linux-based Cloud Environments  Global Banking And Finance Review

Malicious Linux version of Cobalt Strike hacking tool found  IT World Canada

Critical Flaws Discovered in Azure App That Microsoft Secretly Installs on Linux VMs  The Hacker News

Alyssa Rosenzweig spoke today at the virtual X.Org Developers Conference about the ongoing work for bringing up Linux display and graphics support on the Apple M1 graphics processor...