Open-source News

Gaming On Linux To Get Major Improvements, Thanks To Collabora  Fossbytes

When you're writing an application or configuring one for a server, eventually, you will need to store persistent information. Sometimes, a configuration file, such as an INI or YAML file will do. Other times, a custom file format designed in XML or JSON or similar is better.

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It's Now Even Easier Setting Up Windows Subsystem For Linux On Windows 10  Phoronix

There is little more frustrating to me as a sysadmin than unexpectedly running out of a computing resource. On more than one occasion, I have filled all available disk space in a partition, run out of RAM, and not had enough CPU time to perform my tasks in a reasonable amount of time. Resource management is one of the most important tasks that sysadmins do.

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Participating in a morning ritual may be something you've been doing for a while, but there's an even greater emphasis this year on taking the time to do something for yourself that brings you joy, calm, and balance to start your day.

If you're working in tech, creating rituals like this—whether they're in the morning, middle of your day, or evening—is critical as we live out a new normal working from home, taking meetings virtually, and missing the energy of in-person connections with colleagues. 

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Microsoft Edge Preview Build for Linux Now Available for Select Distributions  Netans News

UbuntuDDE Remix 20.10 Released With Linux 5.8, Snap Plugin, And More  Fossbytes

How to Use apt-cache Command in Linux  It's FOSS

A new version of the AMD Radeon Open eCosystem (ROCm) has been released on the same day as the company announcing the Radeon RX 6800/6900 series. Meet ROCm 3.9...

The GNU compiler toolchain has begun landing Arm's contributions around ARMv8.7-A architecture support...

This past quarter was one of continued momentum for Red Hat and our partners, specifically when it comes to containerization. It’s clear that hybrid cloud is becoming the new normal for many global enterprises, but with that comes inherent complexities. Red Hat partners are at the forefront of this hybrid cloud revolution and often the drivers for innovation and growth with customers.

Major improvement for Windows gaming on Linux expected next year  Best gaming pro

Major improvement for Windows gaming on Linux expected next year  TechRadar

Intel's open-source developers have begun publishing their patches enabling their "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver to support Vulkan ray-tracing! This is in preparation for next year's Xe HPG graphics card that will feature hardware-accelerated ray-tracing...

There was talk earlier this year of mainlining the real-time Linux kernel patches after similar discussions last year didn't result in it happening. Merging the RT code didn't happen for the recent Linux 5.10 merge window but at least the out-of-tree patches were quickly re-based for Linux 5.9 stable and 5.10-rc1...

Real-Time Patches Updated For Linux 5.9/5.10 With The Code Not Yet Mainlined  Phoronix

How to Create EC2 Duplicate Instance with Ansible  Linux Journal

Partitions cannot be recovered? Testdisk. - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Lilbits: AMD gets serious about gaming, Microsoft is giving Windows 10 a makeover  Liliputing

Customizable Apollo Lake mini-PC runs Linux  LinuxGizmos.com