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How to Securely Transfer Files on Linux With sftp  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux eBPF bug gets root privileges on Ubuntu - Exploit released  BleepingComputer

July ’21 Newsletter  Security Boulevard

AMD driver engineers have submitted their latest batch of AMDGPU feature updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of the Linux 5.15 merge window opening up in about one month's time. With this latest pull request the big addition is the new "Cyan Skillfish" GPU support...

VMware Hits A Nasty Performance Regression With Linux 5.13  Phoronix

VMware has found the Linux 5.13 kernel that was released as stable one month ago has led to a serious performance regression for their ESXi enterprise hypervisor...

Install balenaetcher using repository on Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Microsoft: This unusual Windows and Linux malware does everything it can to stay on your network  ZDNet

1. Steam Beta Brings Linux Improvements Ahead of Steam Deck  Tom's Hardware
2. Latest Steam Client Beta Adds a Storage Manager, Linux Improvements  PCMag
3. Steam Beta Brings New Downloads Page, Linux Container Updates  Phoronix
4. No more Linux games - developers switching to Valve's Proton  AfterDawn
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Steam Beta Brings Linux Improvements Ahead of Steam Deck  Tom's Hardware

Years ago particularly when the open-source Linux GPU drivers were in their infancy it was known in some cases having to fake/spoof the GPU driver name or model in order to workaround artificial bugs / problematic code paths targeted to a particular OpenGL driver or even to achieve greater performance. With a new Mesa merge request called "Unleash the dragon!", this is still very much a problem in 2021 even now in the Android space...

For those wondering what has been going on in the Xubuntu camp for this Xfce desktop spin of Ubuntu, a Xubuntu 21.10 development update was shared concerning package changes and other happenings...

Following last week's release of Chrome 92, Google has now made available the Chrome 93 beta as the next iteration of their cross-platform web browser...

In addition to the AOCC compiler for Zen CPUs, another LLVM/Clang downstream maintained by AMD is the AOMP compiler as where they host their various patches not yet merged around Radeon OpenMP offloading support. This week marked the release of AOMP 13.0-5 as their latest work on that front for the newest OpenMP GPU offloading capabilities...

You can now install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with a single command - MSPoweruser  MSPoweruser

For today's sysadmin, many companies expect you to have cross-platform knowledge, network knowledge, and application knowledge. Add to that a dash of programming ability, a pinch of sysadmin experience, a heaping portion of social skills, and a fanatical commitment to reliability and automation.

What do we call this new, post-modern sysadmin? Do we use the same term and simply stretch the responsibilities? Or do we give this evolved role a new name?

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MariaDB is a free and community-developed relational database system that is a compatible drop-in replacement for the hugely popular MySQL database management system. It was forked from MySQL after the original developers of MySQL

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AMD just lifted the embargo on the Radeon RX 6600 XT, its newest entry in their RDNA2 line-up and optimized for delivering a superior 1080p gaming performance against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 series. The RX 6600 XT isn't hitting retail availability until August and that is when we'll be able to publish benchmarks, but for now here is an overview of this new graphics card launching at the $379 price point.

Valve just pushed out a rather significant Steam beta update for gamers across Windows, macOS, and Linux...

Steam Beta Brings New Downloads Page, Linux Container Updates  Phoronix