Open-source News

How to Terminate Unresponsive Processes in Linux With kill and pkill  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Linux Foundation seeks a Technical Product Manager in San Mateo, CA  San Mateo Daily Journal

Linux Foundation Makes Available Software Manifest Tool  DevOps.com

Olimex STM32MP1 SoM and evaluation board support Linux 5.10  CNX Software

Merged this past week was Crocus as the new open-source Intel Gallium3D driver developed by the community and used for Gen4/i965 through Gen7/Haswell generations of Intel graphics. This week I ran some Crocus benchmarks on Intel Haswell comparing against the existing i965 classic Mesa DRI driver while in this article are some comparison driver benchmarks using Intel Sandy Bridge graphics for those still running those once popular processors.

CentOS Replacement Rocky Linux Is Now in GA and Under Independent Control  HPCwire

NVIDIA's DLSS upscaling comes to 'Rust' and a wave of Linux games  Engadget

Stemming from last month's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 release and then the RHEL 8.4 based updates to Alma Linux, Oracle Linux, and CentOS 8, RockyLinux has today reached general availability on its v8.4 release...

Linux 5.14 is bringing a new input driver to support an open-source joystick that can be used for DIY electronics purposes and other use-cases. The schematics and firmware are open-source for building the joystick device yourself or can be purchased for about $10 USD...

Linux 5.14 To Add Driver For A $10 Open-Source Joystick For DIY Electronics Projects  Phoronix

Free Open Source UChecker Made Available to Detect Vulnerable Libraries on Linux Servers  HostReview.com

Linux / BSD command line: process monitoring and control with top, htop & Co.  Market Research Telecast

Command to change timezone in Ubuntu 20.04 server - Linux Shout  H2S Media

KTorrent: An Incredibly Useful BitTorrent Application by KDE  It's FOSS

Last week Intel shipped a big update to their open-source Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" that is used currently by their Windows driver, their Linux compute stack, and potentially their Linux graphics drivers moving ahead...

How To Show Date And Time In Linux Terminal Using Date Command?  Fossbytes

Vulkan 1.2.182 is out and on top of various documentation fixes/clarifications, there are a few new extensions added with this revision...

Man pages were my go-to resource when I started exploring Linux. Certainly, man is the most frequently used command when a beginner starts getting familiar with the world of the command line. But man pages, with their extensive lists of options and arguments, can be hard to decipher, which makes it difficult to understand whatever you wanted to know. If you want an easier solution with example-based output, I think tldr is the best option.

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When I was growing up, it seemed every "personal computer" from the TRS-80 to the Commodore to the Apple let you write your own programs in the Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC) programming language. Our family had a clone of the Apple II called the Franklin ACE 1000, which—as a clone—also ran AppleSoft BASIC. I took to AppleSoft BASIC right away and read books and magazines to teach myself about BASIC programming.

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NVIDIA's DLSS upscaling comes to 'Rust' and a wave of Linux games  Yahoo Tech