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Last month Valve's open-source Linux GPU driver developers introduced a "secure compile" feature to the Radeon Vulkan driver to do just as the name implies and making use of SECCOMP filters for enforcing the security aspect. They have now revised this implementation in order to provide faster shader compile times...

SELinux or Security-Enhanced Linux is a mechanism or security module that provides access control security policies. In simple terms, it’s a feature or service used for restricting users to certain policies and rules set...

Intel Core i9 10980XE Linux Performance Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

When I was growing up, my grandfather had a shed in his garden. He would spend hours in there, making and fixing things. This was way before we had the internet, so I spent a lot of time studying him creating things in that shed. Although the shed was full of many tools, from drills to lathes to electrical gubbins and lots of things I doubt I could identify even today, he made use of only a tiny subset of what he had at hand. Yet there never seemed to be limits to what he could achieve.

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Hacktoberfest is an initiative that invites developers from around the world to participate and contribute to open source. This is the second year in a row that I participated to completion of the challenge, and I was so inspired by it that I want to share my slightly longer journey to open source software.

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Intel today is rolling out the Core i9 10980XE as their new Cascade Lake X-Series processor that features 18 cores / 36 threads with a maximum turbo frequency of 4.6GHz and TBM 3.0 frequency of 4.8GHz. Following a last minute change, Intel moved up the embargo lift time of the Core i9 10980XE so here are the results we can share with you right now.

Awk scripts have three main sections: the optional BEGIN and END functions and the functions you write that are executed on each record. In a way, the main body of an awk script is a loop, because the commands in the functions run for each record. However, sometimes you want to run commands on a record more than once, and for that to happen, you must write a loop.

There are several kinds of loops, each serving a unique purpose.

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It's my pleasure to announce that we're launching a new community program to recognize our most active open source advocates. We call it the Opensource.com Correspondent program. Keep reading to learn more about it and see if it's right for you. 

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Linux 5.4 Release – Main Changes, Arm, MIPS & RISC-V Architectures  CNX Software

Linux Kernel 5.4 Released With Kernel Lockdown, exFAT Support & More  Fossbytes

Linux Operating System Pricing Structure 2019 in Global Market – IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  Market News Reports

With the Linux 5.5 kernel now in development the Habana Labs AI startup is preparing for supporting future chips with their open-source Linux kernel driver...

Habana Labs Begins Preparing For Future ASIC Support In Their Linux Driver  Phoronix

Google is Working to Bring Mainline Linux Kernel to Android  It's FOSS

The UBports community developers maintaining Ubuntu Touch have landed the 64-bit ARM (ARM64/AArch64) version of libhybris into their "Edge" development branch. This in turn opens up Ubuntu Touch to more easier porting to newer Android devices...

Linux 5.4 Kernel Released With exFAT Support, Faster Radeon Graphics, New Hardware  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds has officially released the Linux 5.4 "Kleptomaniac Octopus" kernel this evening as was expected. Linux 5.4 is the last major stable kernel release of the year and brings a lot of new hardware support particularly on the graphics processor front, Microsoft exFAT support is finally available, and a plethora of other new features and improvements to existing functionality...

The trials and tribulations of video decoding on Linux  OS News

GNOME 3.35.2 is out as the latest development release on the route to GNOME 3.36 due out next March...

NextCloud Linux Servers Targetted by NextCry Ransomware  Market Research Base