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Benchmarking on Crostini (Linux for Chrome OS) with Vulkan produces unexpected results  BollyInside

How to Install and Use Jitsi Meet on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Scheduler Changes For Linux 5.15 - Still No Sign Of Any Intel Thread Director Optimizations  Phoronix

Ingo Molnar began sending in his pull requests bright and early as usual for the just-opened Linux 5.15 merge window. With the scheduler changes for this next kernel version there are some improvements worth mentioning but also worth mentioning is what hasn't found its way to the kernel yet: any software optimizations around Intel Thread Director for upcoming Alder Lake processors...

Worked on for more than one year is the patches out of Amazon for allowing opt-in L1 data cache flushing on context switching. This L1d flushing is done in the name of greater security given the various CPU speculative execution hardware vulnerabilities these days and protecting against other possible future vulnerabilities. After trying to get the code merged last summer, Linus Torvalds called it "beyond stupid" and reverted the code but now for Linux 5.15 a revised form of it was submitted...

Linux/BSD command line wizardry: Learn to think in sed, awk, and grep  Ars Technica

That Linux lawsuit: 20 years later, SCO vs IBM may finally be ending  ZDNet

Linux at 30: 5 Linux Myths that Persist Today | IT Pro  ITPro Today

For those after an easy-to-use desktop distribution built off Arch Linux, Endeavour OS continues filling the void left by the former Antergos project. Endeavour OS is closing out August by releasing new ISOs that include a number of updates to its installer...

Endeavour OS ISOs Updated With Better Btrfs Support, Pacman Parallel Downloads  Phoronix

One of the very first pull requests for Linux 5.15 now that its merge window is open following the Linux 5.14 release is to merge KSMBD, the in-kernel SMB3 protocol file server...

In-Kernel SMB3 File Server Looks To Land In Linux 5.15  Phoronix

How to connect to AWS ec2 instance from Ubuntu terminal  H2S Media

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PgAdmin 4 is an open-source, powerful, and front-end PostgreSQL database administration tool. PgAdmin 4 allows administrators to seamlessly manage PostgreSQL databases from a web browser and run SQL queries among other database tasks. It’s

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How to connect to AWS ec2 instance using Putty & SSH  H2S Media

I have a printer in my office, but sometimes I work on my laptop in another room of the house. This isn't a problem for me for two reasons. First of all, I rarely print anything on paper and have gone months without using the printer. Secondly, though, I've set the printer to be shared over my home network, so I can send files to print from anywhere in the house. I didn't need any special equipment for this setup. It's accomplished with just my usual Linux computer and the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS).

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Linux 5.14 offers new security protections  IT PRO

Decades old $1B Linux lawsuit involving IBM is settled – or is it?  WRAL Tech Wire

In my last article, I gave a brief introduction to using the ncurses library to write text-mode interactive applications in C. With ncurses, we can control where and how text gets displayed on the terminal.

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Trend Micro Detected Over 13 Million Malware Events Targeting Linux-based Cloud Environments  Taiwan News