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Radeon Software 21.30 PRO vs. Mesa 21.3-devel + Linux 5.15 Gaming Performance  Phoronix

For those wondering how AMD's latest-generation Radeon RX 6000 series is competing now between the Linux driver options of AMD's official Radeon Software for Linux 21.30 "PRO" driver stack and the latest upstream, fully open-source driver components from Mesa and the mainline Linux kernel, here is a fresh comparison.

A new batch of drm-misc-next updates were sent out today for staging in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.16 merge window. With this week's changes there is a notable addition for the Broadcom V3D DRM kernel driver, which most notably is for the Raspberry Pi 4 and newer...

Is Linux Faster Than Windows?  BBN Times

Sony Has Begun Accelerating Their Contributions To Open-Source / Linux  Phoronix

At last week's Linux Foundation Open-Source Summit / Embedded Linux Conference there was a Sony presentation about their history with open-source/Linux and how since last year they have been "accelerating" their open-source contributions...

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Size 2021, Growth, Share, Trends And Forecast to 2028 | Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs, Softmaker (freeoffice) – Amite Tangy Digest  Amite Tangy Digest

How did 30-year-old Linux invade world?  Mirage News

On Linux, there are commands to view processes running on your system. A process is any ongoing event being managed by the kernel. A process is spawned when you launch an application, but there are also many other processes running in the background of your computer, including programs to keep your system time accurate, to monitor for new filesystems, to index files, and more. The utilities, such as those included in the procps-ng package, that monitor these processes tend to be intentionally generic.

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We have covered previously how Ampere Computing has been working on open-source firmware for their Ampere Altra processors and their reference server designs while now they are stepping up to the plate and committing to a monthly release cycle for their open-source firmware...

DevSecOps is in many ways another level of DevOps maturity for an enterprise. Executive management and other stakeholders understand the concept of a maturity model, making it a helpful way to explain the value of this shift. Following a maturity model also helps you tell a story that includes the people, process, and technology changes that come with a DevOps-to-DevSecOps transformation.

Here are four typical levels of DevSecOps maturity:

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The post How to Install Cacti on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Cacti is an open-source web-based network monitoring and graphing tool written in PHP. It was designed as a front-end application for data logging using RRDtool. Cacti uses the SNMP protocol to monitor devices such

The post How to Install Cacti on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

One of our favorite open-source game projects, ET: Legacy for letting the legendary game Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory live on as a community project, is out with a new release...

Debian-based MX Linux 21 RC is here to spoil Microsoft's big Windows 11 launch party  BetaNews

Linux on the M1: progress report for September 2021 – OSnews  OS News

The Asahi Linux project that has been working nearly the past year on bringing up Apple M1 support under Linux has issued their September 2021 porting and reverse engineering report...

Asahi Linux On The Apple M1: "Usable As A Basic Linux Desktop" Sans GPU Acceleration  Phoronix

How to Use the top Command in Linux 2021 Tips - Bollyinside  BollyInside

In Linux 5.14 Intel introduced initial Alder Lake P enablement driver support including around the new "XeLPD" display block. With Linux 5.15 there was the initial enablement around DG2/Alchemist graphics. Now for Linux 5.16 is a significant amount of new driver code for actually getting the display support into shape for both DG2 and ADL-P...

Become An Expert on Linux, Git & More For Less Than $20  IGN Nordics