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NVIDIA Reflex is an SDK for game developers for measuring and reducing rendering latency. But now there is an alternative, open-source implementation of those APIs that can work across drivers/vendors while still helping to reduce rendering latency: meet LatencyFleX...

Merged into the mainline Linux kernel a decade ago was the CleanCache patch series but now it's set to be retired...

The RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers within Mesa 22.0 have now added an override for controlling the number of enabled compute units (CUs) for the graphics processor...

Install build essential tools on Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04 LTS Linux  Linux Shout

Install build essential tools on Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04 LTS Linux  H2S Media

In introducing pdftk-java, I explained how I use the pdftk-java command to make quick, often scripted, modifications to PDF files.

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Last year Google quietly open-sourced the Graphics Flight Recorder (GFR) for sorting out GPU hangs and crashes. GFR is implemented as an implicit Vulkan layer that works on both Windows and Linux...

I am proficient in several programming languages, but my favorite has to be C. Developed in the 1970s as a systems programming language, C remains one of the most popular programming languages in 2021. If you'd like to explore several features of the C programming language, start with these popular articles from the last year:

Short option parsing using getopt in C

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The post How to Block SSH Brute Force Attacks Using SSHGUARD first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

SSHGuard is an open-source daemon that shields hosts from brute-force attacks. It accomplishes this through monitoring and aggregation of system logs, detecting attacks, and blocking attackers using one of the Linux firewall backends: iptables,

The post How to Block SSH Brute Force Attacks Using SSHGUARD first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Red Hat Smart Management for SAP is about automating the whole update process SAP hosts according to policies that can be defined by the administrators, which can save time and frustration. Learn more in this post.

Zink Working On Sparse Textures, Other Improvements To Kick Off 2022  Phoronix

After taking a roughly month-long holiday, Mike Blumenkrantz -- who has been leading the work on Mesa's Zink generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation for Valve -- is back at the game...

Mobile Linux postmarketOS v21.12 supports more devices  Market Research Telecast

Google this afternoon promoted the Chrome 97 web browser to its stable series...

How to RDP from Windows 7/10/11 to get Linux Mint  BollyInside

Linux Software Market Size 2021 Analysis by Top Key Players | Google,Twitter,Facebook,Amazon – Industrial IT  Industrial IT

Google makes the perfect case for why you shouldn't use Chrome  TechRepublic

Caja folder browser, enable "delete" only for removable media folders? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

RISC-V CTO: We're not chip dictators like Arm or x86  The Register

While most Linux gamers are making use of DXVK these days for efficiently mapping Direct3D 9/10/11 over Vulkan when running Wine/Proton for enjoying Windows games on Linux, Wine developers still maintain WineD3D for going from Direct3D to OpenGL for cross-platform compatibility. Out today is a new patch series improving the WineD3D performance...