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Linux 5.18 Preparing Another New Driver For Quirky Keyboards

Phoronix - Tue, 02/08/2022 - 16:00
The "hid-sigmamicro" driver is queued up in HID-next ahead of Linux 5.18 for dealing with keyboards exhibiting problematic behavior that use SiGma Micro keyboard control ICs...

My tips for maintaining dotfiles in source control

opensource.com - Tue, 02/08/2022 - 16:00

Ever started using a new computer, by choice or because the old one let the magic smoke out, and got frustrated at how long it took to get everything just right? Even worse, ever spent some time reconfiguring your shell prompt, then realizing you liked it better before?


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UDP IPv6 Optimizations Queued Up For Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Tue, 02/08/2022 - 13:00
With Linux 5.17 are some nice networking performance optimizations touching different areas while the never-ending optimization work will continue with Linux 5.18...

11 Best Tools to Access Remote Linux Desktop

Tecmint - Tue, 02/08/2022 - 12:18
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Accessing a remote desktop computer is made possible by the remote desktop protocol (RDP), a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft. It gives a user a graphical interface to connect to another/remote computer over a

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Linux Gets Patches For Threaded Console Printing

Phoronix - Tue, 02/08/2022 - 08:20
There has been a multi-year effort to overhaul the Linux kernel's printk() code and as part of that the newest patch series out is providing threaded console printing support...

Fwupd 1.7.5 Adds New Hardware Support, Prepares For EOL/Alternative Firmware

Phoronix - Tue, 02/08/2022 - 03:30
Fwupd 1.7.5 is out as the latest feature update to this open-source solution for updating system and component firmware under Linux that is easily distributed by the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

Intel Joins RISC-V International, Will Help With RISC-V Open-Source Software

Phoronix - Tue, 02/08/2022 - 02:56
Intel Foundry Services already courted SiFive as a customer and there were even those talks last year of Intel reportedly trying to acquire that leading RISC-V chip designer while today Intel has announced it joined RISC-V International as its latest move around this open-source processor ISA...

Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 02/08/2022 - 01:00
Last week marked the long awaited release of a 64-bit spin of Raspberry Pi OS. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has now made available a 64-bit build of their default Linux OS build derived from Debian for all recent Raspberry Pi hardware supporting AArch64. For those curious, here are some benchmarks looking at the performance improvement by switching from Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit to 64-bit.

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