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Linux Operating System Market to Witness Huge Growth by 2027 | Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Fedora Linux, Red Hat, Inc, IBM Corporation, Debian, SUSE, Elementary, I – The Manomet Current  The Manomet Current

Checking Linux system performance with sar  Network World

The W3C has promoted the Web Audio API to now being an official standard as a JavaScript API for creating and manipulating audio content directly within web browsers...

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) with Fwupd has been serving on average around 40k~50k firmware updates per daay to Linux users relying on this cross-vendor, open-source firmware distribution service with FWUPD for applying firmware updates under Linux. But yesterday its usage just skyrocketed with more than 100,000 firmware updates in a single day... That's great for adoption but the motivation for the mass firmware updates may be something rough on the horizon...

It's Good But Maybe Bad: LVFS Skyrockets With More Than 100k Firmware Updates In One Day  Phoronix

Last week marked the end of feature work for the AMDGPU driver (and other DRM drivers) for the upcoming Linux 5.14 cycle. Sent out today though were the first set of AMDGPU fixes targeting Linux 5.14 that does include a recently talked about throttler status feature...

AMDGPU For Linux 5.14 To Report Throttler Status, Many Fixes Sent Out  Phoronix

How to install & use htop on Almalinux or Rocky 8 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Application modernization developers must be able to understand database operations and transaction processes inside applications precisely. Tackle-DiVA (Data-intensive Validity Analyzer) is an open source data-centric Java application analysis tool in the Konveyor Tackle project that aims at refactoring applications to Kubernetes.

This article gives an overview of Tackle-DiVA and presents example instructions and analysis results.

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Installing an application on a computer system is pretty simple. You copy files from an archive (like a .zip file) onto the target computer in a place the operating system expects there to be applications. Because many of us are accustomed to having fancy installer "wizards" to help us get software on our computers, the process seems like it should be technically more complex than it is.

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If you've looked carefully at FreeDOS, you've probably noticed that text only comes in a limited range of colors—sixteen text colors, and eight background colors. This is similar to how Linux displays text color—you might be able to change what text colors are used in a Linux terminal, but you're still stuck with just sixteen text colors and eight background colors.

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Google backs Linux project to make Android, Chrome OS harder to hack  CNET

In the first part of this extended review of The Age of Sustainable Development" by Jeffrey Sachs, I outlined the author's argument about the environmental impacts of economic development. In the second article, I discussed the author's argument about impacts on humans.

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How to Set Up Razer Devices on Linux for Lighting Effects and Other Configurations  It's FOSS

JingPad A1 Linux tablet launched for consumers on Indiegogo  SlashGear

The post 11 Best Media Server Software for Linux in 2021 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

A media server is simply a specialized file server or computer system for storing media (digital videos/movies, audio/music, and images) that can be accessed over a network. In order to set up a media

The post 11 Best Media Server Software for Linux in 2021 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Alibaba Cloud is an important partner for Red Hat and the choice of public cloud for many of our customers in the Asia Pacific region. For those customers looking to modernize and migrate SAP workloads to SAP S/4HANA we can offer several reasons to consider RHEL for SAP Solutions in the Alibaba cloud.

Intel's Speed Select Technology introduced since Cascade Lake for providing more granular power/performance controls was done in the name of performance but it turns out an ISST Linux driver inefficiency could lead to a 10%+ performance hit for some HPC benchmarks...

Intro to Cyber Security | Operating Systems | Linux | Hardware | High School | Teaching Resources  TES News

In conjunction with supported Lenovo systems, a new "Think-LMI" driver is on its way to the mainline Linux kernel for allowing some BIOS/firmware settings to be accessed and configured within Linux...