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Intel Alder Lake S Graphics Support Nearing The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

The Apache Software Foundation that oversees 340+ Apache projects saw a measurable rise in security related issues during the course of 2020...

Today's Vulkan 1.2.168 specification update brings the usual specification corrections/clarifications while also introducing two new KHR extensions...

DreamBus botnet targets enterprise apps running on Linux servers  ZDNet

10 fabulous free apps for working with audio, video, and images  Fast Company

Beneath the code: SUSE Enterprise Linux construction mechanics  ComputerWeekly.com

Last week marked the last Q/A session for the UBports' Ubuntu Touch team working to advance the Linux smartphone platform where they laid out some of their upcoming objectives...

SQL server Linux and SQLCMD from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral  Packt Hub

In 10 ways to analyze binary files on Linux, I explained how to use Linux's rich set of native tools to analyze binaries. But if you want to explore your binary further, you need a tool that is custom-made for binary analysis. If you are new to binary analysis and have mostly worked with scripting languages, 9 essential GNU binutils tools will help you get started learning the compilation process and what constitutes a binary.

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In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 15 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.

Staying productive also means (to some extent) being organized enough to find my notes and reference them on demand. This is a challenge not just for myself but for a lot of people I talk to.

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The COVID-19 pandemic created many new challenges for businesses in 2020 as they rapidly moved non-essential workers to remote operations. However, it also created tremendous opportunities for innovation as people searched for effective ways to work and collaborate virtually.

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For a long time, the ifconfig command was the default method for configuring a network interface. It served Linux users well, but networking is complex, and the commands to configure it must be robust. The ip command is the new default networking command for modern systems, and in this article, I'll show you how to use it.

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Linux Operating System Market – Impact of COVID-19 on Analysis Share, Size, by Global Major Companies Profile, Competitive Landscape and Key Regions 2027 Research Reports World – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

Wine is a nifty utility that allows users to run Windows applications inside a Linux environment. Wine 6.0 is finally out, and it ships with an array of numerous improvements and a total of

The post How to Install Wine 6.0 in Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Last quarter Intel began upstreaming their open-source Alder Lake S graphics support for Linux. It hasn't been too big of a feat or revealed many details since it's still Gen12 / Xe graphics seen since Tiger Lake. But it's been coming along and over the past month is now wired up into Intel's open-source Media Driver stack too...

The fifth weekly release candidate of Linux 5.11 is now available for testing...

Linux 5.11-rc5 Kernel Released Following A Busy Sunday  Phoronix

With this past week's release of Pyston 2.1 as an alternative Python interpreter I was curious to see how the performance compared to that of upstream Python... So here are some weekend benchmarks with a Ryzen 9 5900X system...

How to Find Cheap Linux VPS?  Techstory

GNU Binutils 2.36 is out today as the latest version of this collection of binary utilities for Linux/open-source systems...