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Whoops, Linux 5.5 Missed Some "Critical" Intel Graphics Driver Patches  Phoronix

Whoops, Linux 5.5 Missed Some "Critical" Intel Graphics Driver Patches  Phoronix

Recent News Stories Shows How The Linux Computer Market Products Are Surviving In The Global Industry To 2026?  Keep Reading

Wind River Pioneers Continuous Delivery Subscription of Commercial Embedded Linux  WIND

Wind River Pioneers Continuous Delivery Subscription of Commercial Embedded Linux  StreetInsider.com

One of the letdowns of the forthcoming Linux 5.6 kernel is that AMD's long-awaited Sensor Fusion Hub "SFH" open-source driver wasn't ready in time for merging this cycle, but it continues moving forward with hopes of seeing it in Linux 5.7...

RISC-V's Supervisor Binary Interface "SBI" is the interface between the platform-specific firmware and the running operating system or hypervisor for interacting with the supervisor execution environment in the higher privileged mode. The Linux kernel has been working to support a newer version of the SBI that is more extensible moving forward...

Linux Kernel Continues Prepping For RISC-V's Updated Supervisor Binary Interface  Phoronix

Arrow Shield96 Arm Linux Board Focuses on Hardware-based Security  CNX Software

Meet The Linux OS AMD Recommends For Superior Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Performance  Forbes

With the big Linux 5.6 kernel on the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver side there is finally accelerated support for the GeForce RTX 2000 "Turing" graphics cards (when paired with binary-only microcode). With that initial cut support is no GeForce 16 series Turing support, but that is now on-deck for Linux 5.7...

Open-Source Nouveau Extended To Support The GeForce 16 Series With Hardware Acceleration  Phoronix

Startup Mycroft AI declares it will fight 'patent troll' tooth and nail after its Linux voice-assistant attracts lawsuit  The Register

It happens all the time, to the largest of companies. An important certificate doesn't get renewed, and services become inaccessible. It happened to Microsoft Teams in early February 2020, awkwardly timed just after the launch of a major television campaign promoting it as a Slack competitor. Embarrassing as that may be, it's sure to happen to someone else in the future.

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Over the past decade, solid-state drives (SSD) have brought about a new way of managing storage. SSDs have benefits like silent and cooler operation and a faster interface spec, compared to their elder spinning ancestors. Of course, new technology brings with it new methods of maintenance and management. SSDs have a feature called TRIM. This is essentially a method for reclaiming unused blocks on the device, which may have been previously written, but no longer contain valid data and therefore, can be returned to the general storage pool for reuse.

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Byobu is a text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer. It's similar to GNU Screen but more modern and more intuitive. It also works on most Linux, BSD, and Mac distributions.

Byobu allows you to maintain multiple terminal windows, connect via SSH (secure shell), disconnect, reconnect, and even let other people access it, all while keeping the session alive.

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One More Linux Distro Tries to Convince Windows Users to Make the Switch  Softpedia News

Linux Kernel Seeing Work To Implement MEMFD "Secret Memory Areas"  Phoronix

There is experimental work pending that plumbs support into MEMFD for creating "secret" memory areas. This secret memory support would then be exposed to user-space for different use-cases...

A Pandora FMS Agent is an application installed on computers to be monitored using the Pandora FMS Monitoring System. Software agents perform checks on server resources (such as CPU, RAM, storage devices, etc.) and...