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GNU Toolchain Continues Phasing Out Native Client Support (NaCl)

Phoronix - Wed, 07/15/2020 - 18:43
WebAssembly has seen much greater industry interest and adoption than Google's former Native Client (NaCl) effort for sandboxed applications that can be run within web browsers. Native Client hasn't seen any real activity in years and continues fading away...

Intel Adds More "Elkhart Lake" IDs To Their Linux Graphics Driver Code

Phoronix - Wed, 07/15/2020 - 18:22
Intel's Elkhart Lake as the Denverton successor for ultra-low power use-cases has a few more device IDs now in place for the Gen11 graphics...

Libinput 1.16 Will Warn You If Your System Is Too Slow

Phoronix - Wed, 07/15/2020 - 17:56
It's been over a half-year already for the current libinput 1.15 series for this input handling library used on both X.Org and Wayland environments. But libinput 1.16 is finally en route with the first release candidate out today...

Installation of RHEL 6.10 with Screenshots

Tecmint - Wed, 07/15/2020 - 15:04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux-based operating system developed by Red Hat and targeted the commercial market. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 is available for x86, x86-64 for Itanium, PowerPC and IBM

An example of very lightweight RESTful web services in Java

opensource.com - Wed, 07/15/2020 - 15:01

Web services, in one form or another, have been around for more than two decades. For example, XML-RPC services appeared in the late 1990s, followed shortly by ones written in the SOAP offshoot. Services in the REST architectural style also made the scene about two decades ago, soon after the XML-RPC and SOAP trailblazers.


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What's the difference between DevSecOps and agile software development

opensource.com - Wed, 07/15/2020 - 15:00

There is a tendency in the tech community to use the terms DevSecOps and agile development interchangeably. While there are some similarities, such as that both aim to detect risks earlier, there are also distinctions that drastically alter how each would work in your organization.


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How to Install Brave Browser in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 07/15/2020 - 13:44
Brave is a free, fast, secure, and cross-platform web browser aimed at user privacy and security. It is a browser where security meets simplicity. In terms of speed, it loads pages three times as

10 Tips On How to Use Wireshark to Analyze Packets in Your Network

Tecmint - Wed, 07/15/2020 - 13:27
In any packet-switched network, packets represent units of data that are transmitted between computers. It is the responsibility of network engineers and system administrators alike to monitor and inspect the packets for security and

Ice Lake Xeons Will Ramp Up Frequencies Slower, So Linux Is Preparing A Workaround

Phoronix - Wed, 07/15/2020 - 09:14
While being very eager to learn more about Intel next-gen Ice Lake Xeon processors as their move in the server space finally from 14nm to 10nm+, we continue to learn new tid-bits from the open-source Linux kernel activity...

Linux 5.9 To Allow Defaulting To FQ-PIE Queuing Discipline For Fighting Bufferbloat

Phoronix - Wed, 07/15/2020 - 08:43
Flow Queue Proportional Integral controller Enhanced (FQ-PIE) that has been mainline for a while in the Linux kernel's networking code will now be supported as an option for the default queuing discipline (qdisc) with the Linux 5.9 kernel...

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