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Bringing up Intel discrete graphics on Linux especially when it comes to accelerated 3D rendering has been a very lengthy process for the DG1 graphics card enablement, but it may soon actually start working...

Intel Discrete Graphics On Linux Nearing The Point Of A Working, Accelerated Desktop  Phoronix

The PHP 8.1 alpha releases got underway in June in working towards the next annual feature release for the PHP scripting language...

PHP 8.1 Alpha Releases Get Underway With Enums, Fsync, Fibers, More Performance  Phoronix

The Linux 5.14 RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) and EDAC (Error Detection And Correction) changes have landed with several improvements this time around on the Intel side...

Linux 5.14 Lands Changes For On-Package HBM Xeons, More Intel CPUs With In-Band ECC  Phoronix

Besides Sapphire Rapids introducing Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX), new developer documentation has detailed AFX-512 FP16 capabilities coming with the next-generation Xeon processors. Intel has posted initial developer documentation around AVX512FP16 as well as a big set of GCC and LLVM Clang compiler patches for handling the new intrinsics...

Nasty security flaw discovered at the heart of Linux RPM  TechRadar

Nasty security flaw discovered at the heart of Linux RPM  Techradar

Nasty security flaw discovered at the heart of Linux RPM  TechRadar

Creating a PKGBUILD to Make Packages for Arch Linux  It's FOSS

While Clang PGO support was sent in for Linux 5.14 as part of Clang compiler handling updates for this next kernel version, the functionality was subsequently dropped out and a new pull request issued after criticism from Linus Torvalds and others...

Clang PGO Shot Down For Now From The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

The Direct Rendering Manager (kernel graphics/display driver) updates for Linux 5.14 are putting on the pounds with nearly 300k lines of new code added (312,187 insertions, 22,367 deletions). The big increase is driven by new AMD Radeon graphics support added, a new Microsoft driver added, and other changes...

Nitrux 1.5 Is One of the First Distros to Support Linux Kernel 5.13, Ships with KDE Plasma 5.22  LXer

Linux Launches New License Agreement For Open-Source Datasets  Analytics India Magazine

The make utility and its related Makefile have been used to build software for a long time. The Makefile defines a set of commands to run, and the make utility runs them. It is similar to a Dockerfile or Containerfile—a set of commands used to build container images.

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Senior Linux System Administrator - HPC, GPU- and Cluster computer  Nature.com

No matter what industry you work in, a key aspect of sustaining your business is keeping your customers. In the customer-relations domain, we call this customer retention.

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