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The Linux community is attempting to revive these 20-year-old GPUs  TechRadar

1. The Linux community is attempting to revive these 20-year-old GPUs  TechRadar
2. Linux Community Updates 20 Year Old AMD GPU Driver  Tom's Hardware
3. Twenty years later, the ATI Radeon R300 GPU receives update to driver from supportive Linux community  Wccftech
4. Radeon Linux Driver Has A Huge Optimization Two Decades Later For ATI R300~R500 GPUs  Phoronix
5. These 20-year-old GPUs are being revived by the Linux community.  Ceng News
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Linux Foundation spends 20% more in 2021, highlights new LFX platform  The Register

Queued up as part of the x86/core changes intended for the Linux 5.17 cycle is dropping of the AMD 3DNow! code within the kernel. While 3DNow! brings back fond memories from the days of AMD's K6 and early Athlon processors, AMD deprecated the instructions a decade ago and no longer found in newer processors. Removing of the 3DNow! kernel code is being done as part of some code improvements...

Ubisoft issued a new job posting for a Linux developer, which has many Linux gamers excited especially as it's mentioned for an "unannounced project." Unfortunately, contrary to all the emailed tips in overnight about the job posting, it ultimately will likely prove to be of little interest to the gaming community...

Ubisoft Is Hiring A Linux Developer For An "Unannounced Project" But Don't Get Too Excited  Phoronix

It looks like EXT4 come Linux 5.17 could be making use of the kernel's new mount API. Queued up into EXT4's "dev" branch is transitioning the EXT4 file-system driver to using the kernel's modern mount API...

Intel's mystery Linux muckabout is a dangerous ploy at a dangerous time  The Register

High security Linux on USB stick: Surf and work safely with Tails  Market Research Telecast

Ooh, an update. Let's install it. What could possibly go wro-  The Register

I used to stay away from images when working online. Handling and optimizing images can be both imprecise and time-consuming.

Then I found some commands that changed my mind. To create web pages, I use Jekyll, so I've included that in the directions. However, these commands will also work with other static site generators. 

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I love a good game, and I particularly enjoy tabletop games because they have many of the same traits that open source has. When you're playing a card game in real life with friends sitting around a table, you can as a group decide that Jokers are wild. Alternately, you could arbitrarily decide that should a Joker come into play, anyone holding an Ace must discard that Ace. Or when a Queen of Diamonds comes into play, everyone must pass their hand to the player on their right.

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How to run multiple Linux containers in Chrome OS for extra build environments  TechRepublic

AMD's "RDNA" class GPUs support wavefront sizes of 32 and 64 compared to older GCN GPUs at 64 threads. Going back to 2019 RadeonSI began making use of Wave32 for some shaders but now for Mesa 22.0 next quarter there are greater Wave32 improvements that have landed...

Using open source components has become the de facto way to develop modern applications. The increased adoption of open source has brought with it a new set of challenges and obstacles, and Tidelift, for the fourth year in a row, has laun

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How to install Bitwarden server on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS via docker  H2S Media

The post How to Setup Samba Server in RHEL, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Sharing files is an essential part of server administration. It allows sharing of resources across the network which are needed by users to carry out their tasks. One of the widely used file-sharing software

The post How to Setup Samba Server in RHEL, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux 5.16 is coming after a slight delay, offers improved support for Surface devices  Neowin

Is it decadent that I use four different computers each day, at different times?  The Register

Log4Shell explained – how it works, why you need to know, and how to fix it  Naked Security