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Use lspci on Linux to see your hardware

opensource.com - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 15:01

When you're running Linux on a desktop or server, sometimes you need to identify the hardware in that system. One command used for this is lspci. It works by showing all devices attached to the PCI bus. It's provided by the pciutils package and is available for a wide range of Linux and BSD-based operating systems.


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Finer Grained KASLR Patches Revived For The Linux Kernel To Enhance Security

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 15:00
For more than a year there has been work on FGKASLR for finer grained kernel address space layout randomization. While KASLR is widely-used these days, with enough guessing or unintentional kernel leakage, the base address of the kernel can be figured out. Finer grained KASLR allows for randomization at the per-functional level to dramatically boost defenses. The latest take on FG-KASLR has now been published...

How to use BusyBox on Linux

opensource.com - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 15:00

It's easy to take Linux commands for granted. They come bundled with the system when you install Linux, and we often don't question why they're there. Some of the basic commands, such as cd, kill, and echo aren't always independent applications but are actually built into your shell.


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How to Install OwnCloud on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux

Tecmint - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 13:19
The post How to Install OwnCloud on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

File sharing and collaboration is one of the key functions that users leverage on the Cloud in order to streamline workflows. This enables teams and users to get their projects done in a timely

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Customer success stories: speeding data insights with Red Hat

Red Hat News - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 12:00

In this month’s customer success highlights, we’ll share how two media companies, Verizon and Globo, used Red Hat OpenShift to manage their data and stay ahead of the market.

Linux 5.15 Adds New Syscall To More Quickly Free Memory Of Dying Processes

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 07:23
To help out memory pressure / out-of-memory killing solutions like systemd-oomd or Android's LMKD, Linux 5.15 is introducing the "process_mrelease" system call to more quickly free the memory of dying processes...

Linux 5.15 Further Tunes Its RISC-V Support

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 03:13
The RISC-V architecture updates have landed in the Linux 5.15 kernel with more software features now being supported...

Notcurses 2.4 Released - Now Works On Windows & macOS For Terminal "Bling"

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 01:39
Notcurses as an open-source library designed for complex and "blingful" text user interfaces and character graphics, now works not only on Linux but also Windows and macOS. Notcurses makes it easy for CLI-based programs to support a wide range of colors, multimedia, Unicode, and other features not normally associated with command-line applications...

Intel Compute-Runtime Prepares oneAPI Level Zero 1.2 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 00:00
Intel Compute Runtime 21.35.20826 is available today with initial support for oneAPI Level Zero v1.2...

OpenRISC Gets Working Ethernet With LiteX FPGA SoC Setups

Phoronix - Mon, 09/06/2021 - 23:40
While RISC-V garners most of the interest these days when it comes to open-source processor ISAs, OpenRISC continues pushing forward with its Linux kernel support...

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