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AMD Van Gogh Firmware Published, Other Radeon GPU Firmware Updated

Phoronix - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 20:45
AMD has upstreamed the Van Gogh binary-only firmware files necessary for the RDNA2 graphics to be initialized by the open-source driver on this forthcoming APU.'..

Btrfs Set To Land Support For IDMAPPED Mounts In Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 18:48
Introduced to the Linux kernel earlier this year with Linux 5.12 was IDMAPPED mounts that allow for different mounts to expose the same file or directory with different ownership. IDMAPPED mounts was designed with use-cases ranging from containers to systemd-homed and more as outlined in the earlier article. Btrfs is now ready to begin supporting IDMAPPED mounts...

Firefox 92 Beta Takes Flight With AVIF Image Support

Phoronix - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 18:03
With this week's release of Firefox 91, like clockwork the beta for Firefox 92 is now available to facilitate wider testing of this next browser release to debut in September...

Qt Creator 5.0 Nears With New Features

Phoronix - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 17:51
Qt Creator as the Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment from The Qt Company is preparing to release version 5.0 as it prepares to switch to semantic versioning...

35 Practical Examples of Linux Find Command

Tecmint - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 15:14
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The Linux find command is one of the most important and frequently used command command-line utility in Unix-like operating systems. The find command is used to search and locate the list of files and

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A beginner's guide to the Linux terminal

opensource.com - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 15:02

There's a café a few streets away from where I live, and I go there every Sunday for a regularly scheduled game of D&D. They have a menu, and the first few times I ordered, I looked over the menu for several minutes to see what my choices were. Being a creature of habit, I eventually stopped referring to the menu because I knew exactly what they have for sale, and I know exactly what I want.


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Automatically create multiple applications in Argo CD

opensource.com - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 15:01

In a previous article, I demonstrated how Argo CD makes pull-based GitOps deployments simple. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to automatically create multiple applications in Argo CD using Argo CD itself.


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The Linux Kernel Begins Preparing For AV1 Decode Support

Phoronix - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 15:00
The number of hardware platforms providing accelerated AV1 coding is still quite limited for now but with more hardware coming to market supporting encode/decode of this royalty-free video codec, the Linux kernel's media subsystem is getting ready...

15 Useful “ifconfig” Commands to Configure Network Interface in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 14:05
The post 15 Useful “ifconfig” Commands to Configure Network Interface in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

ifconfig in short “interface configuration” utility for system/network administration in Unix/Linux operating systems to configure, manage and query network interface parameters via command-line interface or in a system configuration scripts. [ You might also

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How to Clear RAM Memory Cache, Buffer and Swap Space on Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 12:35
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Like any other operating system, GNU/Linux has implemented memory management efficiently and even more than that. But if any process is eating away your memory and you want to clear it, Linux provides a

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Thunderbird 91 Released With Big Improvements For This Open-Source Mail Client

Phoronix - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 08:06
Thunderbird 91 is now available as the first major update in a year for this Mozilla mail client that is succeeding the Thunderbird 78 series...

Radeon RX 6600/6700/6800 XT: RADV vs. PRO Vulkan Driver Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 08/12/2021 - 02:30
With yesterday's launch day Radeon RX 6600 XT Linux review the benchmarks were conducted using the popular Mesa RADV open-source driver used by many Linux gamers considering it's the driver Valve has been relentlessly optimizing and is the default on most (or all) Linux distributions. For those wondering how the performance of RADV is comparing to that of AMD's closed-source "PRO" Vulkan driver distributed as part of the "Radeon Software for Linux" package, here are some benchmarks exploring that difference.

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