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Virtual Networking Computing (VNC) is a kind of remote sharing system that makes it possible to take control of any other computer connected to the internet. Keyboard and mouse clicks can easily transmit from

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WordPress, Linux Users in Danger of New Malware: Major Warning Signs of Capoae Attack  iTech Post

We are pleased to announce that Red Hat's head of Application Services engineering, Mark Little, Ph.D., has been named a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the U.K.’s national academy of engineering.

While the formal announcement has yet to hit the wire, releasing today is Firefox 93.0 as the newest monthly feature update to Mozilla's web browser...

Merged to Mesa 21.3-devel this weekend was a rework to the display list interface for the Gallium3D code and Mesa state tracker and wired up for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. This latest driver overhead reduction is another sizable win for AMD's open-source OpenGL driver on Linux...

RadeonSI Lands Another Big Overhead Optimization - "Substantially" Helps In Some Cases  Phoronix

Python 3.10 is out as the latest major update for this widely-used programming language's official implementation...

How you can find the Best VPN for Linux 2021 2021 Tips - Bollyinside  BollyInside

Linus Torvalds on 30 years of Linux, Rust and the open-source community  SiliconANGLE News

MidnightBSD: A BSD-Based Alternative to the Linux Desktop  MUO - MakeUseOf

Google announced today that Android 12 is now officially available from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP)...

AMD Publishes Open-Source "GPUFORT" As Newest Effort To Help Transition Away From CUDA  Phoronix

I've just been informed by AMD that they have now made their code public to a new project called GPUFORT. This new GPUFORT project will live under the Radeon Open eCosystem (ROCm) umbrella and is their latest endeavor in helping developers with large CUDA code-bases transition away from NVIDIA's closed ecosystem...

The newest patch series by AMD open-source Linux graphics driver engineers worth mentioning is around USB4 DisplayPort tunneling support for next-generation AMD hardware supporting USB4 connectivity...

In PuTTY, Scripted Passwords are Exposed Passwords  Linux Journal

Linux 101: What is the mount command and how do you use it?  TechRepublic

How to install MongoDB Server on Alpine Linux  H2S Media

It's been one year now since Intel launched Tiger Lake mobile processors and since then we've been running routine benchmarks of the Core i7 1165G7 on Linux. Tiger Lake at launch was performing well under Linux but its performance has continued evolving nicely since on Linux, especially as it pertains to the Xe Graphics with the open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers. With Ubuntu 21.10 due out later this month, there is another performance boost to enjoy.

Mesa 21.3 recently landed RADV ray-tracing support for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver with RDNA2 graphics processors. Now the software-based/emulated Vulkan ray-tracing support has been merged for handling pre-RDNA2 GPUs...

Linus Torvalds: Juggling chainsaws and building Linux  ZDNet