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AMD + Valve Working On New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design

Phoronix - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 20:00
Along with other optimizations to benefit the Steam Deck, AMD and Valve have been jointly working on CPU frequency/power scaling improvements to enhance the Steam Play gaming experience on modern AMD platforms running Linux...

Debian Improves Docs To Inform Users Their Systems Might Not Work Without Non-Free Firmware

Phoronix - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 18:38
Debian 11 "Bullseye" is set to be released mid-August while out this morning is the third release candidate of the Debian Bullseye installer. With this installer update is more documentation for users letting them know the risks of modern graphics cards and the like that are often inoperable unless loading firmware that isn't considered free software...

Work Is Back Underway On A Task Isolation Interface For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 18:09
Red Hat's Marcelo Tosatti has submitted his latest patches implementing a basic task isolation interface for the Linux kernel that would be particularly useful for real-time workloads and high-bandwidth networking applications making use of user-space drivers...

GNU C Library 2.34 Released With More Functionality Squeezed Into libc

Phoronix - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 17:53
Version 2.34 of the GNU C Library (glibc) is now available with a wide variety of changes that accumulated over the past six months...

X.Org's XEyes 1.2 Released, Other Updated X11 Components Too

Phoronix - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 17:29
Several X.Org/X11 components saw new releases on Sunday for kicking off August, including the xeyes program seeing its first non-point release in eleven years...

dav1d 0.9.1 Released With More Optimizations - Particularly For Older CPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 15:00
Dav1d 0.9.1 was released on Sunday as the newest feature update to this leading open-source CPU-based AV1 video decoder...

How to open and close directories in the Linux terminal

opensource.com - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 15:00

To open a directory on a computer with a graphical interface, you double-click on a folder. It opens, and you are now "in" that folder.

To open a directory in a terminal, you use the cd command to change your current directory. This essentially opens that folder and places you in it.


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