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Debian Improves Docs To Inform Users Their Systems Might Not Work Without Non-Free Firmware

Phoronix - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 18:38
Debian 11 "Bullseye" is set to be released mid-August while out this morning is the third release candidate of the Debian Bullseye installer. With this installer update is more documentation for users letting them know the risks of modern graphics cards and the like that are often inoperable unless loading firmware that isn't considered free software...

Work Is Back Underway On A Task Isolation Interface For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 18:09
Red Hat's Marcelo Tosatti has submitted his latest patches implementing a basic task isolation interface for the Linux kernel that would be particularly useful for real-time workloads and high-bandwidth networking applications making use of user-space drivers...

GNU C Library 2.34 Released With More Functionality Squeezed Into libc

Phoronix - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 17:53
Version 2.34 of the GNU C Library (glibc) is now available with a wide variety of changes that accumulated over the past six months...

X.Org's XEyes 1.2 Released, Other Updated X11 Components Too

Phoronix - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 17:29
Several X.Org/X11 components saw new releases on Sunday for kicking off August, including the xeyes program seeing its first non-point release in eleven years...

dav1d 0.9.1 Released With More Optimizations - Particularly For Older CPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 15:00
Dav1d 0.9.1 was released on Sunday as the newest feature update to this leading open-source CPU-based AV1 video decoder...

How to open and close directories in the Linux terminal

opensource.com - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 15:00

To open a directory on a computer with a graphical interface, you double-click on a folder. It opens, and you are now "in" that folder.

To open a directory in a terminal, you use the cd command to change your current directory. This essentially opens that folder and places you in it.


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How to Install Java 16 in Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux

Tecmint - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 14:21
The post How to Install Java 16 in Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Java is a cross-platform, object-oriented, and multipurpose programming language that is primarily used for creating mobile, web, and cloud applications. Additionally, you can use Java to create games, chatbots, enterprise applications, and a whole

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7 Best Mail Transfer Agents (MTA’s) for Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 12:45
The post 7 Best Mail Transfer Agents (MTA’s) for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

On a network such as the Internet, mail clients send mails to a mail server which then routes the messages to the correct destinations (other clients). The mail server uses a network application called

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