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New + Updated Benchmarks For May 2021 - Now At 661 Tests, ~36d19h Average Total Runtime

Phoronix - Wed, 06/02/2021 - 17:47
On top of everything else going on in May ahead of Phoronix turning 17, there were several new benchmarks / test profiles added for the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org and numerous updates to existing test profiles...

Libinput 1.18 Released With Better Gesture Detection

Phoronix - Wed, 06/02/2021 - 17:33
Libinput as the input handling library commonly used these days by the Linux desktop both under X.Org and Wayland environments is out with version 1.18 as its newest feature release...

Intel Releases HAXM 7.7 For Open-Source, Cross-Platform Virtualization Engine

Phoronix - Wed, 06/02/2021 - 17:19
Besides Cloud-Hypervisor, another open-source virtualization hypervisor that continues to be developed by Intel is HAXM as the Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager...

Test Kubernetes cluster failures and experiments in your terminal

opensource.com - Wed, 06/02/2021 - 15:02

Do you know how your system will respond to an arbitrary failure? Will your application fail? Will anything survive after a loss? If you're not sure, it's time to see if your system passes the Litmus test, a detailed way to cause chaos at random with many experiments.


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Establish an SSH connection between Windows and Linux

opensource.com - Wed, 06/02/2021 - 15:02

The secure shell protocol (SSH) is the most common method for controlling remote machines over the command line in the Linux world. SSH is a true Linux original, and it is also gaining popularity in the Windows world. There is even official Windows documentation for SSH, which covers controlling Windows machines using OpenSSH.


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How to navigate FreeDOS with CD and DIR

opensource.com - Wed, 06/02/2021 - 15:01

FreeDOS is an open source DOS-compatible operating system that you can use to play classic DOS games, run legacy business software, or develop embedded systems. Any program that works on MS-DOS should also run on FreeDOS.

But if you've never used DOS, you might be confused about how to navigate the system. FreeDOS is primarily a command-line interface; there is no default graphical user interface (GUI) in FreeDOS. You need to type every command at the command line.


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New ways to learn about open organizations

opensource.com - Wed, 06/02/2021 - 15:00

The Open Organization community celebrates its sixth anniversary on June 02. That's six years of articles (hundreds), books (an evolving series), conversations (always inspiring), teaching (we love it), and learning.


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How to Do Security Auditing of Linux System Using Lynis Tool

Tecmint - Wed, 06/02/2021 - 13:45
The post How to Do Security Auditing of Linux System Using Lynis Tool first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Lynis is an open-source and much powerful auditing tool for Unix/Linux-like operating systems. It scans the system for security information, general system information, installed and available software information, configuration mistakes, security issues, user accounts

The post How to Do Security Auditing of Linux System Using Lynis Tool first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

AMD Continues Working On SmartShift Support For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 06/02/2021 - 08:35
Announced last year by AMD was SmartShift Technology for laptops with both AMD CPUs and GPUs to allow dynamically shifting the power budget between the CPU/GPU depending upon the current workload. AMD promoted SmartShift as delivering up to 14% extra performance and now this technology is being worked on for their Linux driver...

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Sees Reworked Shader Cache So It Actually Works

Phoronix - Wed, 06/02/2021 - 06:22
Zink as Mesa's OpenGL implementation atop Vulkan continues seeing a lot of work particularly by Mike Blumenkrantz working under contract for Valve. The latest is a major rework to Zink's shader cache implementation so it will actually work as desired and in an optimal manner...

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