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Get started with batch files in FreeDOS

opensource.com - Wed, 04/07/2021 - 15:00

On Linux, it's common to create shell scripts to automate repetitive tasks. Similarly, on FreeDOS, the open source implementation of old DOS operating systems, you can create a batch file containing several FreeDOS commands. Then you can run your batch file to execute each command in order.


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How to Enable Remi Repository to Install Latest LAMP Stack

Tecmint - Wed, 04/07/2021 - 14:12
The post How to Enable Remi Repository to Install Latest LAMP Stack first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you are a system administrator, a developer, or a DevOps engineer, chances are that at some point you’ve had to set up (or work with) a LAMP (Linux / Apache / MySQL or

The post How to Enable Remi Repository to Install Latest LAMP Stack first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Running Steam's Linux Build On FreeBSD Is Becoming Increasingly Capable For Gaming

Phoronix - Wed, 04/07/2021 - 12:00
For many years it's been possible to run Linux games on FreeBSD along with other Linux applications thanks to FreeBSD's "Linuxulator" Linux binary compatibility layer. With that more recently it's becoming possible to run even more recent games thanks to improvements to FreeBSD's graphics drivers, the Linux binary compatibility code, and other FreeBSD improvements -- Steam is even working out for more titles...

Google Posts Initial Code For Lyra Speech Codec

Phoronix - Wed, 04/07/2021 - 08:16
Back in February we covered Google's work on the Lyra voice/audio codec designed for fitting with very low bit-rate audio for speech compression in use-cases like WebRTC and video chatting even on the most limited Internet connections. Thanks to leveraging machine learning, Lyra can function at just 3kbps. The code to Lyra is now public...

AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Patches To Allow Disabling Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF)

Phoronix - Wed, 04/07/2021 - 00:43
AMD last week published a security whitepaper on Zen 3's Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF) functionality introduced with Ryzen 5000 series and EPYC 7003 series processors. In the whitepaper they mentioned Linux patches were published for allowing this feature to be disabled if concerned about the security risk, well, today those patches were made public...

Intel Launches 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" CPUs With Up To 40 Cores

Phoronix - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 23:00
Intel today is introducing the 3rd Gen "Ice Lake" Xeon Scalable processors that top out with the Xeon Platinum 8380 offering 40 cores with a 2.3GHz base frequency and 3.0GHz all-core turbo while having a 270 Watt TDP and launching for ~$8099 USD. Here are more details on the Intel Ice Lake Xeon Scalable line-up.

Linux 5.13 - Another Step In Prepping Intel Discrete Graphics, Preferring Local Memory

Phoronix - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 22:21
Over the past two years we have seen a lot of Intel Linux kernel graphics driver work in preparing to support Intel discrete graphics cards. That work is still ongoing even for the DG1 graphics card that has been sampling to customers while Linux 5.13 will take things another step forward this summer...

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