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Red Hat Scores A Huge DM Optimization For Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 00:14
Red Hat engineers have scored an impressive performance optimization to the DeviceMapper (DM) code that is now queued up for merging with the Linux 5.14 cycle...

Intel AMX Support Continues Being Prepped For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 19:07
Intel engineers have been publishing open-source/Linux enablement patches around Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for nearly one year now. While Intel Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" with AMX support is expected around the end of this year, one of the key pieces yet to land is the Linux kernel support...

Intel Open-Source Stack Enables oneAPI Level Zero For Rocket Lake, Alder Lake S

Phoronix - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 18:07
A bit late to the game on the Rocket Lake side but ahead as usual when it comes to Alder Lake S, Intel's engineers maintaining the open-source Compute Runtime for Linux systems have now flipped on the Level Zero support...

Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT Announced With Greater Power Capability For $20

Phoronix - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 17:52
Raspberry Pi's Power over Ethernet HAT is beginning to face production challenges caused by the supply chain crisis so now the Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the PoE+ HAT that is not only easier to produce but also can provide more power in conjunction with supported switches...

LFCA: How to Improve Linux System Security – Part 20

Tecmint - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 15:51
The post LFCA: How to Improve Linux System Security – Part 20 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

As we all know, the root user is king and wields unlimited privileges over the Linux system. However non-root users are limited to basic tasks. In addition, sudo users are only granted a certain

The post LFCA: How to Improve Linux System Security – Part 20 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

4 steps to set up global modals in React

opensource.com - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 15:00

A modal dialog is a window that appears on top of a web page and requires a user's interaction before it disappears. React has a couple of ways to help you generate and manage modals with minimal coding.

If you create them within a local scope, you must import modals into each component and then create a state to manage each modal's opening and closing status.


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Keep tabs on your Linux computer specs with this desktop application

opensource.com - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 15:00

Whether I'm using a laptop my employer assigned to me or a workstation I built from vendor parts, I seem to have an endless capacity to forget my computer's specifications. One of the great things about Linux is its /proc filesystem, a dynamically populated virtual expression of the system's hardware. It's convenient when you want to see the specifics of your CPU (cat /proc/cpuinfo), uptime (cat /proc/uptime), a list of mounted filesystems (ls -R /proc/fs/), and so on.


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