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While last week the NVIDIA 460.80 Linux driver was released with adding support for the RTX 3050 / RTX 3050 Ti laptop GPUs, today the NVIDIA 465.31 Linux driver debuted for officially bringing these new Ampere GPUs to this newer driver branch...

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Adds Linux Support  Redmondmag.com

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Adds Linux Support  Redmondmag.com

How to handle colorspace aware output on Windows and Linux?  GameDev.net

1Password releases full-featured desktop app for Linux  Help Net Security

1Password Unveils Application to Protect Linux Users and Developers - PRNewswire  PRNewswire

SUSE News at SUSECON 2021: Linux and Kubernetes Leadership, Openness and Interoperability, Customer/Community-led Innovation  PRNewswire

IBM makes Python distribution platform Anaconda generally available for Linux  VentureBeat

Top free Cockpit linux alternative web-based server manager tools  H2S Media

Use Ctrl+Alt+Del in Ubuntu Linux to Launch the Task Manager  It's FOSS

For those wondering how GCC and LLVM Clang are competing when running on Intel's latest Rocket Lake processors, here are some GCC 11 vs. LLVM Clang 12 compiler benchmarks with the Core i9 11900K running from the newly-released Fedora Workstation 34 featuring these very latest compilers. The compiler benchmarks were carried out at multiple optimization levels on each compiler.

More than a decade ago when the open-source graphics driver stack was being modernized with kernel mode-setting and better handling the stack for OpenGL, composited desktops and the like, TTM (Translation Table Maps) was born for managing GPU video RAM by the kernel Direct Rendering Manager drivers. While Intel initially expressed interest in TTM, they ultimately decided to create GEM as the Graphics Execution Manager for handling their video memory management needs. Now in 2021 with Intel aggressively pursuing discrete graphics, they are working on TTM support...

Linux Foundation and NGMN to cooperate on requirements for 5G and beyond - Rethink  Rethink Research

There are two kinds of desktops: Yours and someone else's  Computerworld

AMD has issued its newest AMDVLK open-source Vulkan driver code drop today and with this update comes some new optimizations and improvements...

Using Gimp to modify PDF files  Network World

The post 5 Lightweight Linux Desktop Environments For Older Computers first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Many of us own old computers, and old computers need low resources-constrained GUI’s to be used on them. In this article, we are going to talk about lightweight linux desktop environments to install on

The post 5 Lightweight Linux Desktop Environments For Older Computers first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Last year, I wrote about using Cockpit to manage my Linux servers. It is a web-based tool that gives you a clean, powerful interface for managing multiple servers and their associated services and applications. It also eases regular day-to-day administrative tasks.

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This is the seventh in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Python 3.6 was first released in 2016, and even though it has been out for a while, many of the features it introduced are underused and pretty cool. Here are three of them.

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1Password targets enterprise DevOps with Linux desktop app  VentureBeat