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For those wondering how well the likes of FreeBSD 13.0 and DragonFlyBSD 6.0 performance on AMD's EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors launched earlier this year, here are some initial benchmarks of those BSDs alongside a few Linux distributions. With recently having a Tyan 1U server in the lab with EPYC 7543 32-core processor, I've been running a number of BSD benchmarks on it given these recent BSD releases have been running well on this 1P server.

How to Get macOS Monterey Universal Control Feature on Windows and Linux  Beebom

AMD has shifted all their graphics processors and APUs prior to Polaris / GCN 1.4 to being legacy and will not be supported by their new Radeon Software Adrenalin releases...

Wormable DarkRadiation Ransomware Targets Linux and Docker Instances  The Hacker News

The latest JavaScript API to see a public working draft out of the W3C is for a Web Neural Network API...

The post 9 Best IRC Clients for Linux in 2021 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

An IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client is a program that a user can install on their computer and it sends and receives messages to and from an IRC server. It simply connects you to

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If you work on the Linux command line, you will be familiar with the du command. Knowing commands like du, which returns information about disk usage quickly, is one of the ways the command line makes programmers more productive. Yet if you're looking for a way to save even more time and make your life even easier, take a look at dust, which is du rewritten in Rust with more intuitiveness.

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There are thousands of configuration files on your computer. You may never directly interact with the bulk of them, but they're scattered throughout your /etc folder and in ~/.config and ~/.local and /usr. There are probably some in /var and possibly even in /opt. If you've ever opened one by accident or to make a change, you may have wondered why some configuration files look one way while others look completely different.

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On Linux, I often use the GNU Emacs editor to write the source code for new programs. I learned GNU Emacs long ago when I was an undergraduate student, and I still have the "finger memory" for all the keyboard shortcuts.

When I started work on FreeDOS in 1994, I wanted to include an Emacs-like text editor. You can find many editors similar to Emacs, such as MicroEmacs, but these all take some shortcuts to fit into the 16-bit address space on DOS. However, I was very pleased to find Freemacs, by Russell "Russ" Nelson.

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The post How to Install FFmpeg in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

FFmpeg is one of the best multimedia frameworks that contains various tools for different tasks. For example, the ffplay is a portable media player that can be used to play audio/video files, ffmpeg can

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Been doing a lot of online shopping lately? There’s a good chance enterprise open source is helping to power your favorite retailer’s website, based on findings we published in The State of Enterprise Open Source report earlier this year. 

The Haiku open-source operating system inspired by BeOS has been in development since 2001. It took until September 2018 for the Haiku R1 Beta and then last summer was succeeded by Haiku R1 Beta 2. Now a year later the third beta for this inaugural release is now approaching...

Do you want speed or security as expected? Spectre CPU defenses can cripple performance on Linux in tests  The Register

CentOS Stand-in Rocky Linux Becomes a Ready for Prime Time Player  Data Center Knowledge

A Collection Of Linux Tools On Steroids  Hackaday

The ISRG wants to make the Linux kernel memory-safe with Rust  Ars Technica

CentOS replacement distro Rocky Linux’s first general release is out  Ars Technica

Linux Software Market is Going to Boom With Google, Microsoft,  openPR

Google engineers have prepared a set of Linux kernel patches allowing for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) / SEV-ES encrypted state to allow for local migration support of these encrypted virtual machines on the same host...

Everything You Need to Know About Snap and Snap Store  MUO - MakeUseOf