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AMD Ryzen 5 5600G / Ryzen 7 5700G Linux Gaming Benchmarks

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 21:20
Recently with my Linux benchmarks of the Ryzen 5 5600G and Ryzen 7 5700G Zen 3 APUs with Radeon Vega graphics I touched on the GPU graphics/compute performance in some of the basic benchmarks while in this article are a number of Steam Play and native Linux gaming benchmarks for looking at the potential for these latest-generation desktop APUs for Linux gaming.

OpenSSL 3.0 Officially Released

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 21:08
After many development snapshots and three years worth of work, OpenSSL 3.0 is now available as a major update to this widely-used SSL library...

X.Org DMX Dropped After More Than A Decade Of Crashes

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 19:53
The X.Org Distributed Multihead X (DMX) DDX driver has been dropped from the X.Org Server source tree due to its rather broken state for more than one decade...

FUSE With Linux 5.15 Now Allows Mounting An Active FUSE Device

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 19:44
While Linus Torvalds isn't much of a fan of FUSE / user-space file-systems, the FUSE code within the kernel does continue making improvements...

Vulkan 1.2.191 Released With New Extension To Make Wiser Memory Decisions

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 17:56
Vulkan 1.2.191 is out this morning as the latest update to this graphics/compute API. As usual is a variety of bug fixes / clarifications to the specification while this time around is also one new extension...

Use lspci on Linux to see your hardware

opensource.com - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 15:01

When you're running Linux on a desktop or server, sometimes you need to identify the hardware in that system. One command used for this is lspci. It works by showing all devices attached to the PCI bus. It's provided by the pciutils package and is available for a wide range of Linux and BSD-based operating systems.


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Finer Grained KASLR Patches Revived For The Linux Kernel To Enhance Security

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 15:00
For more than a year there has been work on FGKASLR for finer grained kernel address space layout randomization. While KASLR is widely-used these days, with enough guessing or unintentional kernel leakage, the base address of the kernel can be figured out. Finer grained KASLR allows for randomization at the per-functional level to dramatically boost defenses. The latest take on FG-KASLR has now been published...

How to use BusyBox on Linux

opensource.com - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 15:00

It's easy to take Linux commands for granted. They come bundled with the system when you install Linux, and we often don't question why they're there. Some of the basic commands, such as cd, kill, and echo aren't always independent applications but are actually built into your shell.


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How to Install OwnCloud on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux

Tecmint - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 13:19
The post How to Install OwnCloud on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

File sharing and collaboration is one of the key functions that users leverage on the Cloud in order to streamline workflows. This enables teams and users to get their projects done in a timely

The post How to Install OwnCloud on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Customer success stories: speeding data insights with Red Hat

Red Hat News - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 12:00

In this month’s customer success highlights, we’ll share how two media companies, Verizon and Globo, used Red Hat OpenShift to manage their data and stay ahead of the market.

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