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"core/entry" Is Exciting For Linux 5.11 With Two Big Changes

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 19:15
While a "core/entry" pull request may not seem that exciting, this time around for the Linux 5.11 kernel there are two prominent additions...

AMDVLK 2020.Q4.6 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, Performance Tuning

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 18:55
AMD has released the newest open-source snapshot of their official AMD Vulkan "AMDVLK" driver for Linux systems...

Linux 5.11 Hardware Monitoring Brings New Additions From AMD Zen 3 To Corsair PSUs

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 16:49
HWMON maintainer Guenter Roeck has sent in all of the hardware monitoring changes destined for the Linux 5.11 kernel...

9 things to do in your first 10 minutes on a Linux server

opensource.com - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 16:02

When I test software on Linux (a regular part of my job), I need to use multiple servers with various architectures running Linux. I provision the machines, install the required software packages, run my tests, gather the results, and return the machine to the pool so that others can use it for their tests.


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Try the e3 Linux text editor

opensource.com - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 16:01

What if you could have a tiny text editor with different modes to emulate your choice of Emacs, Vi, Pico, NEdit, and even WordStar? Amazingly, such an editor already exists, and it’s called e3. It has no library dependencies, and its binary is less than 20KB.

Installing

On Linux or BSD, you can install e3 from your distribution’s software repository or ports tree.


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