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Longtime open-source Intel Linux graphics driver developer Chris Wilson has sent out a set of 19 patches for what he calls fast soft-RC6 support and is a "substantial" improvement over the current driver code for Intel graphics power-savings...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches For Fast Soft-RC6 Yield Big Energy Use Improvement  Phoronix

I've been a user of the Vim text editor for about two decades. For a little while, I have been customizing my Vim configuration, only using plugins for the last couple of years.

Recently, when I was redoing my setup (as I do every so often), I decided it was a good opportunity to identify the best Vim plugins for programming in multiple languages and a way to combine those plugins for each language I program in.

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Periodically, I need to come up with new passwords, some of which need to be more secure than others. My mind often seems to draw a blank when I have to create a new login, and this short Bash script fills that void. Full disclosure: I found most of this script posted somewhere and made a minor modification to it.

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NetBSD is famous for running on basically anything, but did you know its second claim to fame is the pkgsrc package manager? Like NetBSD, pkgsrc runs on basically anything, or at least anything Unix and Unix-like. You can install pkgsrc on BSD, Linux, Illumos, Solaris, and Mac. All told, over 20 operating systems are supported.

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Google wants Android to use regular Linux kernel, potentially improving updates and security  Android Police

Community is a fundamental component of open organizations. The Open Organization Definition notes that:

Shared values and purpose guide participation in open organizations, and these values—more so than arbitrary geographical locations or hierarchical positions—help determine the organization's boundaries and conditions of participation.

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For those that are fans of the 7 Days to Die open-world shooter / horror game, the performance on Linux is now as much as 30% higher as a result of Mesa GL threading...

In this article, you will learn how to install wget non-interactive network downloader in Linux. Wget is a tool developed by the GNU project used for retrieving or downloading files from web or FTP...

World’s Top 500 Supercomputers Run On Linux  Fossbytes

One and a half years late, the "DANOS" (known formerly as "dNOS") network operating system is now open-source under the Linux Foundation...

AT&T Finally Opens Up dNOS "DANOS" Network Operating System Code  Phoronix

Over the years there have been many interesting Wayland projects to take flight focused on new and interesting use-cases. One of these interesting (and experimental) Wayland compositors was NEMO-UX focused on providing a shell for computing environments that span large surfaces like virtual chalkboards or tabletops...

Today the community celebrates KEDA 1.0, an open source project aimed at providing event-driven scale capabilities for container workloads.

NextCry Ransomware Encrypts Files On NextCloud Linux Servers  Fossbytes

ALT Linux: Linux Worthy Alternative, With a Catch  Herald Journalism 24

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced from SC19 today in Denver that they are releasing a "reference design" of hardware and software to help in deployments of their graphics processors within Arm-based servers focused on HPC and AI...

NVIDIA Releasing Reference Design For Stuffing Their GPUs Into Arm Servers  Phoronix

Valve has confirmed recent rumors around one of their new virtual reality games in development being Half-Life: Alyx...

With yesterday's much anticipated Intel oneAPI beta being built around open-source standards like SYCL, the "cross-device" support can at least in theory extend beyond just Intel platforms. Codeplay is already showing that's possible with a to-be-open-source layer that will allow oneAPI and SYCL / Data Parallel C++ to run atop NVIDIA GPUs via CUDA...