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Libaom 3.2 is now available as the latest version of the official AOMedia/Google-developed AV1 Codec Library. With libaom 3.2 comes compression efficiency improvements, perceptual quality improvements, and a variety of speed-ups and memory optimizations...

How to install Craft CMS on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa  H2S Media

How to install Craft CMS on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa  Linux Shout

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Cluster scheduler support has been queued up for landing in the Linux 5.16 kernel for AArch64 and x86_64 systems for improving the CPU scheduler behavior for systems that have clusters of CPU cores...

Cluster Scheduler Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.16  Phoronix

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE is back to hacking on SALSA, the "small ALSA" library that he started a decade ago but hadn't seen a new release in six years or any code activity for the past four years... until this week...

SALSA Back In Development As A Small ALSA Library For Linux Systems  Phoronix

With it getting late into the Linux 5.15 kernel cycle, the focus is shifting by the Direct Rendering Driver maintainers from new feature work targeting the next cycle (5.16) to instead on bug fixes. AMD sent out a pull request of new AMDGPU Linux 5.16 material this week that is primarily delivering bug fixes but one notable addition is finally enabling PSR by default for newer GPUs...

Arch Linux vs Ubuntu  Ghacks Technology News

Microsoft Releases Sysmon for Linux  TechDecisions

Both startups and more established firms are increasingly turning to content marketing as a way of reaching prospective customers.

However, corporate marketers often consider the open source software (OSS) community a challenge to reach. This article features ways your technology and content marketing teams can work together to target and reach the community around an OSS project your organization supports.

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As a system administrator, you may find yourself (today or in the future) working in an environment where Windows and Linux coexist. It is no secret that some big companies prefer (or have to)

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Devuan debuts version 4.0 – as usual without a hint of the hated systemd  The Register

The Dell Inspiron 15 3501 supports Linux  Notebookcheck.net

Made public this week by CPU security researchers at Graz University of Technology and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security was the research paper published "AMD Prefetch Attacks through Power and Time". The paper points to AMD CPUs suffering from a side-channel leakage vulnerability through timing and power variations of the PREFETCH instruction. The paper argues that AMD CPUs should activate stronger page table isolation by default. AMD has now published their security response where they are not recommending any mitigation changes at this time. But what if Kernel Page Table Isolation (KPTI/PTI) proves necessary for AMD CPUs? Here are some initial benchmarks showing what that performance impact could look like.

Sourcing a file in Linux: Here are the basics of this important concept  TechRepublic

The newest Ubuntu Linux, Impish Indri, arrives  ZDNet

1. The newest Ubuntu Linux, Impish Indri, arrives  ZDNet
2. Download Ubuntu Linux 21.10 Impish Indri  BetaNews
3. Ubuntu 21.10 brings GNOME 40, Linux 5.13, and more  Liliputing
4. Ubuntu Linux 21.10 arrives, bringing developer-focused features and GNOME 40  XDA Developers
5. Linux distribution Ubuntu 21.10 with Gnome 40 and Firefox as snap package  Market Research Telecast
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X.Org Server 21.1 continues running slightly behind schedule but out today is a second release candidate of that upcoming xorg-server version -- the first in more than three years...