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Last year Sabrent launched the Rocket 4 Plus PCIe 4.0 NVMe solid-state drive and left me puzzled for months finding that the Linux performance was coming in short of expectations under Linux. However, Sabrent recently released a firmware update (v1.2) for the Rocket 4 Plus and now the drive seems to be much better positioned under Linux.

Connect Ubuntu Linux Desktop 21.04 to an Active Directory domain: Here's how  TechRepublic

How to Find and Remove Duplicate Photos in Linux  It's FOSS

AMD and Valve Are Building a Better CPU Driver For Linux  ExtremeTech

After being started by LinkedIn and open-source now for more than a half-decade while incubating at the Apache Software Foundation the past three years, Apache Pinot is the latest project graduating to become a top-level Apache project...

LLVM 13.0 feature development has ended with the code now branched and the first release candidate tagged...

Steam Hardware Survey Shows Linux Finally Breaks the 1% Barrier  eTeknix

Make-me-admin holes found in Windows and Linux kernels • Registers  Illinoisnewstoday.com

X-Plane is not only the most realistic flight simulator that has long offered native Linux support but it's the only instance of a Vulkan-powered flight simulator I am aware of. While long tied to OpenGL, the company behind X-Plane is making it clear that the graphics rendering future is with Vulkan (and Metal when talking about Apple platforms)...

Monday marked the release of Git 2.33-rc0 as the first test release of the next version of this distributed revision control system...

To navigate through the directories of your computer in a graphical interface, you're probably used to opening a window to get "into" your computer, and then double-clicking on a folder, and then on a subfolder, and so on. You may also use arrow buttons or keys to back track.

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Percentage of Linux Gamers on Steam Tops 1% for First Time in Years  PCMag AU

Have you been connected to an untrusted network such as a hotel or café WiFi and need to securely browse the internet from your smartphone or laptop? By using a virtual private network (VPN), you can access that untrusted network anonymously and as safely as if you were on a private network.

VPN is an amazing tool for safeguarding private data. By using a VPN, you can connect to a private network on the internet while maintaining anonymity.

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In a typical push-based deployment, tools like Ansible and Jenkins connect directly to the server or cluster and execute the provisioning commands. This approach works well when the cluster is accessible on the network and there is direct connectivity between your deployment server and the destination server. For compliance or security reasons, connectivity between the deployment tool and the cluster may not be possible.

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Data encryption is a must-have feature in today’s world of cybersecurity. It allows you to encode your data making it unintelligible to someone who doesn’t have the authorized access. To be more secure online,

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Xubuntu Linux dumps open source Pidgin  BetaNews

Linux Now Makes Up 1% Of Steam Users Once Again  GameSpot

AMD continues pushing new code out for Linux in better exposing their platform's capabilities in the open-source world. The latest AMD driver work now queued via "-next" branches for introduction this autumn in Linux 5.15 is SB-RMI sensor support...

Paragon NTFS driver might finally make it into Linux  ZDNet

Percentage of Linux Gamers on Steam Tops 1% for First Time in Years  PCMag