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Steam Continues Improving Its Shader Pre-Caching Support, Other Beta Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 12:00
A new Steam client beta is out with a few Linux enhancements worth noting...

SiFive Has A New RISC-V Core To Improve Performance By 50%, Outperform Cortex-A78

Phoronix - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 06:42
SiFive just shared word that at today's Linley Conference they teased their Performance P550 successor that will "set a new standard for the highest efficiency RISC-V processor available."..

Trying Out Ubuntu's New Flutter+Curtin-Powered Desktop Installer Was Disappointing

Phoronix - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 03:15
An effort going on for a while at Canonical has been to develop a new desktop installer for Ubuntu. With the recent Ubuntu 21.10 release they are still using their classic Ubiquity installer by default but have published a new preview build of Ubuntu 21.10 with their new desktop installer option. Here is a look at Ubuntu's forthcoming new installer...

Chrome 96 Beta Begins Preparing For Chrome 100, Adds Priority Hints Feature

Phoronix - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 02:37
Following this week's release of Chrome 95, Google has now promoted Chrome 96 to beta status...

XWayland 21.1.3 Nears With Support For NVIDIA 495 Driver's GBM

Phoronix - Fri, 10/22/2021 - 01:57
The release candidate to XWayland 21.1.3 is out today with just a few changes but made significant by support for the NVIDIA 495 series driver GBM code path...

AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" Performance On Ubuntu Linux Six Months After Launch

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 21:00
It's been a half-year already since AMD introduced the EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors that continue performing well and gaining marketshare. While the recently released Ubuntu 21.10 is not a long-term support (LTS) release, for those wondering what this latest Linux distribution means for EPYC 7003 series performance, here is a look at its performance across many benchmarks against that of Ubuntu 21.04 that was released right after the Milan launch and then Ubuntu 20.04 as the current LTS stable series.

AMD "Smart Trace Buffer" Feature Being Wired Up For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 18:15
AMD patches this month have begun preparing support for a new CPU feature called Smart Trace Buffer (STB)...

V3DV Raspberry Pi Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.1

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 17:19
Mesa's V3DV driver for supporting newer Broadcom VideoCore graphics hardware with Vulkan now is advertising v1.1 support. This Vulkan 1.1 support in V3DV is notable as the Raspberry Pi 4 and newer are the most notable beneficiaries of this driver...

7 handy tricks for using the Linux wget command

opensource.com - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 15:01

Wget is a free utility to download files from the web. It gets data from the Internet and saves it to a file or displays it in your terminal. This is literally also what web browsers do, such as Firefox or Chromium, except by default, they render the information in a graphical window and usually require a user to be actively controlling them. The wget utility is designed to be non-interactive, meaning you can script or schedule wget to download files whether you're at your computer or not.


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What you need to know about Kubernetes NetworkPolicy

opensource.com - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 15:00

With a growing number of cloud-native applications going to production through Kubernetes adoption, security is an important checkpoint that you must consider early in the process. When designing a cloud-native application, it is very important to embed a security strategy up front. Failure to do so leads to lingering security issues that can cause project delays and ultimately cost you unnecessary stress and money.


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How to Install LAMP Stack on Debian 11/10/9

Tecmint - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 14:30
The post How to Install LAMP Stack on Debian 11/10/9 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

On (August 14, 2021), the Debian project announced the availability of the new stable version (Debian 11) codenamed Bullseye. With this release, the well-known and widely-used Debian 10 Buster gained old-stable status, which designates

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How to Install Debian 11 (Bullseye) Server Using Net Install

Tecmint - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 13:47
The post How to Install Debian 11 (Bullseye) Server Using Net Install first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this guide, we will walk you through the installation of a Debian 11 (Bullseye) Minimal Server, using the netinstall CD ISO image. This installation you will carry out is appropriate for building a

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