Open-source News

How to compress a folder in Linux from the command line with tar  TechRepublic

While NVIDIA has been supporting Resizable BAR for a while now with their GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards, for those exclusively using Linux it remains more of a challenge due to AIB partners generally not releasing any vBIOS updates for ReBAR support that can be easily applied under Linux. But if you do carry out an update -- such as under Windows -- the performance uplift can be worthwhile if using a game that can benefit from the support.

Many players report that Splitgate is crashing for them on Linux  PiunikaWeb

"Intel Seamless Update" is a forthcoming feature for Intel platforms seemingly first being exposed by their new Linux kernel patches working on the functionality... Intel is working on being able to carry out system firmware upates such as UEFI updates but doing so at run-time and being able to avoid the reboot in the process...

Managing and monitoring swap space on Linux  Network World

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Size, Growth And Analysis By Leading Keyplayers – Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs, Softmaker (freeoffice) – Stillwater Current  Stillwater Current

Steam Deck might only be able to run 72% of the top 50 games on Steam  TechRadar

Libinput 1.19 is now available as the newest version of this Linux input handling library commonly used these days by both X.Org and Wayland desktops...

The Amazing Benefits of CBD Oil by Denzel Washington CBD Oil ! - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Hackers develop Linux port of Cobalt Strike for new attacks  IT PRO

Red Hat to back Linux Foundation-supported open source project tackling climate change  WRAL Tech Wire

Open source communities don’t just happen. They require work. Sometimes the technical interest in an open source project is enough to attract a group of people to get involved.

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Red Hat to back Linux Foundation-supported open source project tackling climate change  WRAL Tech Wire

While Linux 5.15-rc1 was released on Sunday with its many changes, landing on Monday was a late change to raise the baseline GCC version requirement for building the Linux kernel...

In the first four parts of this series on the open source software supply chain, I explored open source as a supply chain, what a product is, what product managers do, and ways to differentiate open source software products from their upstream projects. 

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Manjaro Linux 21.1 with fresh desktop environments  Market Research Telecast

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NTT DOCOMO has published a comprehensive, "5G Open RAN Ecosystem Whitepaper" describing the Open Radio Access Network (RAN) Ecosystem - OREC project in detail.  Honore LaBourdette, Vice President, Telecom Media & Entertainment Industry at Red Hat and Sadayuki Abeta, Vice President & General Manager of the Radio Access Network Development Department at NTT DOCOMO, had a joint interview with Telecom TV that explains how the OREC project can accelerate Open RAN and can help 5G intelligent RAN deployment. 

Screen Recording in Linux With OBS and Wayland  It's FOSS

Mesa 21.3 today landed a debug option that can help with the XWayland-based gaming performance around latency and for power management as well...