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Manjaro 21.1 Bringing Enhanced Support For Btrfs, Automatic Backups

Phoronix - Thu, 07/29/2021 - 18:53
Manjaro 21.1 is on the way as the newest release of this Arch Linux based operating system that is popular for its desktop ease of use...

AMD PMC Updates, Intel Alder Lake HID, Gigabyte-WMI Patches Land In Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Thu, 07/29/2021 - 17:46
While solidly into the "fixes" stage of Linux 5.14 kernel development, the x86 platform driver pull request this week -- which has already been merged to mainline -- does have some new additions worth mentioning...

RenderDoc 1.15 Released For Cross-Platform/API Graphics Debugging

Phoronix - Thu, 07/29/2021 - 17:30
RenderDoc continues maturing gracefully as the leading frame-capture based graphics debugging system for OpenGL / Direct3D / Vulkan across all major operating systems as well as some consoles...

Use df to check free disk space on Linux

opensource.com - Thu, 07/29/2021 - 15:01

Drive space isn't quite as precious as it was in the early days of computing, but no matter how much space you have, there's always the potential to run out. Computers need a little space just to operate, so it's important to check occasionally to ensure you haven't inadvertently used up literally all the space available on your drive. In the Linux terminal, you can do that with the df command.

The df command displays the amount of disk space available on the file system.


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Systemd/Microsoft Effort For A Global Counter On Block/Disk Changes Coming To Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Thu, 07/29/2021 - 15:00
Last month I wrote about a possible global counter for block/disk changes on Linux being discussed by Microsoft and systemd developers to better track changes via a system-wide monotonically increasing number as an alternative to the existing per-disk tracking. That functionality is now queued up as part of the block subsystem changes ahead of the Linux 5.15 merge window in a few weeks...

5 reasons you should run your apps on WildFly

opensource.com - Thu, 07/29/2021 - 15:00

WildFly, formerly known as JBoss Application Server, is an open source Java EE application server. Its primary goal is to provide a set of vital tools for enterprise Java applications.

According to the Jakarta EE 2020/2021 survey, WildFly is head and shoulders above in the recent application servers and in the rating categories. Here are some of the reasons why:


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Mesa 21.2-rc3 Offered For Testing, Mesa 21.1.6 Reaches Stable

Phoronix - Thu, 07/29/2021 - 08:17
The Mesa release train continues at full speed ahead for these open-source Linux graphics driver components...

Intel's Iris Gallium3D OpenGL Driver Now Supports Threaded Shader Compilation

Phoronix - Thu, 07/29/2021 - 04:00
Intel's open-source "Iris" Gallium3D driver for providing modern OpenGL driver support on their graphics hardware from Broadwell through all current Gen12 / Xe Graphics era hardware has been in great shape for some time and works wonderfully. But Intel's not done furthering this Linux OpenGL driver and today they now have threaded shader compilation merged...

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