Open-source News

Last summer I wrote about Intel prototyping their Mesa drivers to use the IGC compiler, which followed Intel transitioning their Windows driver to use this compiler that was originally written for their open-source Linux compute stack. While they were making good progress last year on having their Mesa drivers use the IGC compiler, the project has been pushed back...

Systemd 249 has been promoted to stable as the newest version of this Linux init system...

What to do when 2FA won't allow you into your Linux servers  TechRepublic

For quite a while now Samsung engineers have been developing an in-kernel SMB3 file sharing server for the Linux kernel. In recent months that code has been maturing more and now the latest version of this KSMBD kernel code has been published...

Samsung Posts Newest "KSMBD" Linux Patches For In-Kernel SMB3 Server  Phoronix

The Linux 5.14 input subsystem updates have landed with new hardware support and other changes...

Linux 101: How to find drive space usage from the command line  TechRepublic

Help Wanted -- Staff Shortages for Detecting and Resolving Security Vulnerabilities on Data Center Servers  Business Wire

Earlier this year was the proposed NVIDIA code from NVIDIA for allowing Mesa's GBM to support alternative back-ends. This support is notable given that most Wayland compositors are catering to using Mesa's Generic Buffer Manager (GBM) rather than EGLStreams or other options for buffer management. That support code has now been merged into Mesa 21.2...

Sophos Acquires Capsule8 to Bring Powerful and Lightweight Linux Server and Cloud Container Security to its  GlobeNewswire

Sophos Acquires Capsule8 to Bring Powerful and Lightweight Linux Server and Cloud Container Security to its Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem (ACE)  Yahoo Finance

Install Mongodb Compass GUI in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Adding to the lengthy list of features for Intel's next-gen Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" processors next year is an admittedly experimental feature called RAR, or Remote Action Requests...

The Linux 5.14 kernel so far is running smoothly in my early tests across a variety of systems but coming in this morning is a pull request having the potential to cause some fall-out on x86/x86_64 systems but hopefully will not...

Arm engineers are working on the Active Stats Framework (ASF) that is a new kernel framework for Linux effectively combining the current roles of CPUFreq and CPUIdle...

WSL 2: Run Linux GUI Apps | Tabs vs Spaces  Microsoft - Channel 9

Tafi Partners with AWS, Linux Foundation and Others to Form Open-Source 3D Engine Project  MarTech Series

Most websites and applications ask users to create accounts with secure passwords so that they can provide tailored user experiences. While this tips the odds in favor of website developers, it certainly doesn't make life easier for users.

Sometimes the rules for creating passwords are so strict that it's hard to get a good and allowable combination. It would be much easier to have a tool that generates secure passwords that meet whatever rules the website or application requires.

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This is the third in a series of articles that explain how to improve your Linux personal computer's performance. My first article described how to unleash performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks. My second article showed how to improve performance by upgrading your PC's hardware.

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When you write an application, you often want users to be able to configure how they interact with it and how it interacts with their system. These are commonly called "preferences" or "settings," and they're stored in "preference files" or "configuration files," or just "configs." There are many different formats for config files, including INI, JSON, YAML, and XML, and every language parses these languages differently.

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