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Linux 5.15 Adds New Syscall To More Quickly Free Memory Of Dying Processes

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 07:23
To help out memory pressure / out-of-memory killing solutions like systemd-oomd or Android's LMKD, Linux 5.15 is introducing the "process_mrelease" system call to more quickly free the memory of dying processes...

Linux 5.15 Further Tunes Its RISC-V Support

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 03:13
The RISC-V architecture updates have landed in the Linux 5.15 kernel with more software features now being supported...

Notcurses 2.4 Released - Now Works On Windows & macOS For Terminal "Bling"

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 01:39
Notcurses as an open-source library designed for complex and "blingful" text user interfaces and character graphics, now works not only on Linux but also Windows and macOS. Notcurses makes it easy for CLI-based programs to support a wide range of colors, multimedia, Unicode, and other features not normally associated with command-line applications...

Intel Compute-Runtime Prepares oneAPI Level Zero 1.2 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 00:00
Intel Compute Runtime 21.35.20826 is available today with initial support for oneAPI Level Zero v1.2...

OpenRISC Gets Working Ethernet With LiteX FPGA SoC Setups

Phoronix - Mon, 09/06/2021 - 23:40
While RISC-V garners most of the interest these days when it comes to open-source processor ISAs, OpenRISC continues pushing forward with its Linux kernel support...

ASUS Platform Profile Support, Alder Lake PMC Support + More Land For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Mon, 09/06/2021 - 17:51
The platform-drivers-x86 area of the kernel continues to be quite active with particularly offering better support for modern Intel/AMD laptops. With Linux 5.15 there is another big batch of improvements that landed at the end of last week...

Learn everything about computers with this Raspberry Pi kit

opensource.com - Mon, 09/06/2021 - 15:01

I like history, and I like computers, so I enjoy hearing stories about computing before computers were an everyday household appliance, much less a personal accessory. One tale I hear often is about how the computers of long ago (in computer years, anyway) were pleasantly basic. They were so basic, in fact, that it was relatively trivial for a curious user to figure out how to program one.


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Resize an image from the Linux terminal

opensource.com - Mon, 09/06/2021 - 15:00

ImageMagick is a handy multipurpose command-line tool for all your image needs. ImageMagick supports a variety of image types, including JPG photos and PNG graphics.


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