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What is a hostname?

opensource.com - Mon, 10/11/2021 - 15:00

Computers have network addresses, but they're usually difficult for humans to remember. Hostnames are labels intended to help humans refer to a specific computer. Instead of navigating to 192..168.1.4, for instance, you might navigate to  linuxlaptop or linuxlaptop.local.


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5 Best OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices

Tecmint - Mon, 10/11/2021 - 12:16
The post 5 Best OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

SSH (Secure Shell) is an open-source network protocol that is used to connect local or remote Linux servers to transfer files, make remote backups, remote command execution, and other network-related tasks via scp command

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Linux 5.15-rc5 Released With This Cycle Running Smoothly

Phoronix - Mon, 10/11/2021 - 08:29
Linus Torvalds just pushed out the Linux 5.15-rc5 kernel release with things looking smooth for this stage and hopefully leading to an on-time release in just a few weeks...

Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking

Phoronix - Mon, 10/11/2021 - 07:19
Phoronix Test Suite 10.6.1 was released today with various improvements for our cross-platform, open-source, fully-automated benchmarking software...

NVIDIA Contributing Tegra NVDEC Support To Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Sun, 10/10/2021 - 18:45
The Tegra DRM driver changes were sent out on Friday of the new material destined for Linux 5.16. Notable this time around is NVIDIA's NVDEC driver being included...

Linux 5.15-rc5 x86 Changes Aim To Fix "Yet Another Hardware Trainwreck"

Phoronix - Sun, 10/10/2021 - 18:00
Sent in this morning were an urgent set of x86 updates for the Linux 5.15-rc5 kernel due out later today...

Red Hat Is Making It Easy To Run Bleeding-Edge LLVM/Clang On Fedora

Phoronix - Sun, 10/10/2021 - 17:53
Red Hat's Platform Tools team is making it very easy to run the very bleeding edge, development version of the LLVM toolchain and Clang compiler on the current versions of Fedora...

IBM Proposing A CPU Namespace For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 10/10/2021 - 06:56
IBM engineer Pratik Sampat published an early prototype of a CPU namespace interface for the Linux kernel. This CPU namespace was devised to address coherency issues with current means of viewing available CPU resources as well as addressing possible security issues stemming from understanding resource access/positioning on the system...

Intel Begins Preparing Linux Graphics Driver For Multi-Tile Hardware

Phoronix - Sat, 10/09/2021 - 22:25
Intel has been preparing Xe HP bring-up for many months already including fundamental work around their discrete graphics/accelerator support for their Linux graphics driver stack going back quite a while. On the Xe HP front, Friday afternoon brought an important patch series posted for the first time: initial work around multi-tile support...

Debian 11.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 10/09/2021 - 22:07
Debian 11 "Bullseye" debuted back in August as the latest major release for this popular community Linux distribution. Today it's been succeeded by Debian 11.1...

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