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AMD Publishes Latest Linux Patch To Toggle Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF)  Phoronix

It's been a month and a half since AMD published a security analysis of their new Zen 3 "Predictive Store Forwarding" feature that while helping performance could theoretically lead to a new side-channel attack. While they published a Linux patch to allow disabling PSF if desired for increased security, to this day they remain in the works and have yet to be mainlined...

If you are building an application that uses some variation of a client/server model, you need an application programming interface (API). An API is a clearly defined boundary between one process and another. A common boundary in web applications is a REST/JSON API.

While developers may be mainly focused on making the API work (or function), there are some "non-functional" requirements that need their attention. Four must-have non-functional requirements for all APIs are:

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The post 10 Top Most Popular Linux Distributions of 2021 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

We are almost half of the year 2021, we thought it right to share with Linux enthusiasts out there the most popular distributions of the year so far. In this post, we will review

The post 10 Top Most Popular Linux Distributions of 2021 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Back in 2007 Apple effectively acquired the open-source CUPS project and in 2017 then decided to no longer develop CUPS under the GPL but instead the Apache 2.0 license for this widely-used Unix/macOS/Linux print server. But then at the end of 2019 the CUPS lead developer left Apple and following that public development of CUPS seemingly halted. Fortunately, now there is a happy next chapter to the CUPS printing story...

Panfrost Open-Source Mali Driver Adding Mediatek MT8183 Support With Linux 5.14  Phoronix

The open-source Panfrost graphics driver stack that is now seeing support backed by Arm is going to see Mediatek MT8183 support with the upcoming Linux 5.14 kernel cycle this summer...

Google announced today the accepted projects/students for this year's Google Summer of Code. While for GSoC 2021 Google trimmed the length of this summer coding initiative and also cut the stipend amounts, there ended up being still a good turnout for this year with some interesting projects to be attempted...

Google Announces Some Very Interesting GSoC 2021 Projects  Phoronix

What’s New in Bodhi Linux 6? 4 New Updates to Look Out For  MUO - MakeUseOf

OpenShot brings official Linux video editor to Chromebooks  Chrome Unboxed

Linux 101: What's a tiling window manager?  TechRepublic

How to Download and Install Figma on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Virglrenderer that is part of the open-source Linux effort to provide accelerated OpenGL to guest virtual machines has been enjoying some new micro-optimizations...

Going along with the recent releases of FreeBSD 13.0, DragonFlyBSD 6.0, and OpenBSD 6.9, NetBSD 9.2 is now available as the latest feature release of this BSD operating system...

Linux Software Market: Size, Share, Analysis, Regional Outlook and Forecast 2021  Business-newsupdate.com

Fedora 35 is looking to replace the unmaintained SDL 1.2 packages with using the sdl12-compat compatibility layer for better handling of vintage Linux games by this upcoming distribution release...

Fedora 35 Aims For Better Experience Running Vintage Linux Games  Phoronix

Firefly ROC-RK3566-PC: Another credit card-sized Linux PC with a Rockchip RK3566 processor  Liliputing

Firefly ROC-RK3566-PC: Another credit card-sized Linux PC with a Rockchip RK3566 processor  Liliputing