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Linux Kernel's BPF Fixed Up Against Spectre Vulnerability Bypass

Phoronix - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 21:00
With the latest mainline Git kernel as well as the newest stable point releases as of Wednesday, a Spectre issue with the kernel's BPF subsystem has been addressed...

~5x Faster SM4 Cipher Performance With AVX/AES-NI Tuned Linux Kernel Code

Phoronix - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 19:00
Alibaba engineers are looking to mainline an x86_64 tuned version of the SM4 cipher that with making use of AVX and AES-NI can allow for a dramatic performance speed-up...

OpenDocument Format 1.3 Approved As OASIS Standard

Phoronix - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 18:14
The OASIS standards organization has now officially approved of the ODF 1.3 revision of the OpenDocument Format as their newest ratified standard...

Valve's Dota 2 Adds AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution

Phoronix - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 18:01
Valve's Dota 2 game is the latest adding support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution and the first time having a Linux-native game support FSR for enhanced image upscaling...

Linux package management with apt

opensource.com - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 15:02

On Linux, package managers help you handle updates, uninstalls, troubleshooting, and more for the software on your computer. Seth Kenlon wrote about dnf, the command-line package management tool for installing software in RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Mageia, OpenMandriva, and other Linux distros.


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View statistics about your code with Tokei

opensource.com - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 15:01

Recently, GitHub added a small indicator that shows details about projects, including what programming languages a project uses. Before this, it was hard for new contributors to know this type of information about the projects they were interested in.


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Copy files between Linux and FreeDOS

opensource.com - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 15:00

I run Linux as my primary operating system, and I boot FreeDOS in a virtual machine. Most of the time, I use QEMU as my PC emulator, but sometimes I'll run other experiments with GNOME Boxes (which uses QEMU as a back-end virtual machine) or with VirtualBox.


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3 Best Udemy Python Courses – Go From Zero to Hero

Tecmint - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 13:21
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Python is often considered to be one of the most powerful, adaptable, and easy-to-learn high-level programming languages for developing websites, operating system components, applications to games and so much more. Today, companies like Amazon,

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10 Best Udemy Web Development Courses in 2021

Tecmint - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 12:33
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Linux 5.14 To Support XMM Fast Hypercalls For Hyper-V On KVM

Phoronix - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 12:00
With the KVM code set to be merged in the coming weeks for the Linux 5.14 kernel, support for fast XMM hypercalls is coming for its Hyper-V guest support in allowing for some performance benefits...

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