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Let Sudo Insult You When You Enter Incorrect Password

Tecmint - Wed, 07/16/2025 - 13:00
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Sudoers is the default sudo security policy plugin in Linux; however, experienced system administrators can specify a custom security policy

The post Let Sudo Insult You When You Enter Incorrect Password first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK

Phoronix - Wed, 07/16/2025 - 08:46
Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freeze. Hitting Mesa Git this evening is now treating NVIDIA Kepler GPUs as Vulkan 1.2 conformant following the Vulkan 1.2 CTS passing with the NVK open-source driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver...

Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV

Phoronix - Wed, 07/16/2025 - 08:22
Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver. These latest RADV ray-tracing improvements benefit the latest Radeon RX 9000 series "RDNA4" the most but there are also some optimizations too for RDNA3 class GPUs...

Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Wed, 07/16/2025 - 03:15
The upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to be an especially nice release for users of modern Intel graphics hardware on Linux. The very latest feature being enabled for this next Linux kernel version is SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs to vastly enhance the Intel Linux graphics experience in virtualized environments...

Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations

Phoronix - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 23:49
Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software...

Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support Heading To Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 23:30
One month ago there was the report on Phoronix of the Broadcom "BNGE" open-source driver being published for forthcoming BCM5770X networking chipsets. That new Broadcom BNGE driver is now set to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel for supporting the new Broadcom wired networking hardware at up to 800 Gigabit speeds...

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