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Intel Sapphire Rapids To Have Experimental "RAR" Feature

Phoronix - Wed, 07/07/2021 - 18:18
Adding to the lengthy list of features for Intel's next-gen Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" processors next year is an admittedly experimental feature called RAR, or Remote Action Requests...

Linux 5.14 Bringing A Major Cleanup To The x86 FPU Code

Phoronix - Wed, 07/07/2021 - 17:50
The Linux 5.14 kernel so far is running smoothly in my early tests across a variety of systems but coming in this morning is a pull request having the potential to cause some fall-out on x86/x86_64 systems but hopefully will not...

Arm Proposes ASF As Their Framework Building Off Linux's CPUFreq + CPUIdle

Phoronix - Wed, 07/07/2021 - 17:35
Arm engineers are working on the Active Stats Framework (ASF) that is a new kernel framework for Linux effectively combining the current roles of CPUFreq and CPUIdle...

Generate passwords on the Linux command line

opensource.com - Wed, 07/07/2021 - 15:02

Most websites and applications ask users to create accounts with secure passwords so that they can provide tailored user experiences. While this tips the odds in favor of website developers, it certainly doesn't make life easier for users.

Sometimes the rules for creating passwords are so strict that it's hard to get a good and allowable combination. It would be much easier to have a tool that generates secure passwords that meet whatever rules the website or application requires.


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Open source tools and tips for improving your Linux PC's performance

opensource.com - Wed, 07/07/2021 - 15:01

This is the third in a series of articles that explain how to improve your Linux personal computer's performance. My first article described how to unleash performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks. My second article showed how to improve performance by upgrading your PC's hardware.


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Parsing config files with Java

opensource.com - Wed, 07/07/2021 - 15:00

When you write an application, you often want users to be able to configure how they interact with it and how it interacts with their system. These are commonly called "preferences" or "settings," and they're stored in "preference files" or "configuration files," or just "configs." There are many different formats for config files, including INI, JSON, YAML, and XML, and every language parses these languages differently.


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Top 5 Best Alternative Linux Distributions for Windows Users

Tecmint - Wed, 07/07/2021 - 13:06
The post Top 5 Best Alternative Linux Distributions for Windows Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

It is quite intriguing how Windows 10 took off shortly after its announcement on the 29 of July 2015 and it is without a doubt that it’s the best Windows ever – which is

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Linux 5.14 Staging Drops A Set Of Drivers For The Second Time, Intel QEP Added

Phoronix - Wed, 07/07/2021 - 06:41
The staging changes were submitted on Monday for the ongoing Linux 5.14 for this area of the kernel where immature / yet-to-be-cleaned-up code lives to prove itself before being ready to graduate to the proper mainline kernel area...

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