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While it remains to be seen if Tiger Lake will be able to ship on time in 2020 as the Icelake successor, the "Gen 12" Xe Graphics continue to be worked on with the company's open-source Linux graphics driver...

QEMU 4.1 is now out as one of the important pieces to the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

While Freedreno and Panfrost have been steaming ahead when it comes to open-source, reverse-engineered graphics for Arm SoCs, the Etnaviv project for targeting Vivante graphics hasn't had too much to report on recently. Fortunately, that's changing as coming up for the Linux 5.4 cycle they have a lot of new code to introduce...

Luis Chamberlain has announced the first release of Kdevops as a Linux kernel development "DevOps" framework...

Gocryptfs is a Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE)-mounted file-level encryption program. FUSE-mounted means that the encrypted files are stored in a single directory tree that is mounted, like a USB key, using the FUSE interface. This allows any user to do the mount—you don't need to be root. Because gocryptfs encrypts at the file level, synchronization operations that copy your files can work efficiently on each file.

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Being part of technology-oriented communities has been an essential part of my career development. The first community that made a difference for me was focused on virtualization. Less than a year into my first career-related job, I met a group of friends who were significant contributors to this "vCommunity," and I found their enthusiasm to be contagious. That began our daily "nerd herd," where a handful of us met nearly every day for coffee before our shifts in tech support.

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Previously in this series about people who are developing audio technology in the open, I interviewed Juan Rios, developer and maintainer of Guayadeque and Sander Jansen, developer and maintainer of Goggles Music Manager. These conversations have broadened my thinking and helped me enjoy their software even more than before.

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SSH (Secure Shell) is a popular and widely used tool for remote login and file transfers over insecure networks, that uses encryption to secure the connection between a client and a server. Read Also:...

Based on last week's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 is now Oracle Linux 7 Update 7 with many of the same changes...

Keeping track of Linux users: When do they log in and for how long?  Network World

The Linux command line provides some excellent tools for determining how frequently users log in and how much time they spend on a system. Pulling ...

Linux-driven compute module offers three flavors of i.MX6 UltraLite  LinuxGizmos.com

Variscite has launched SODIMM-style “VAR-SOM-6UL” module that runs Linux on NXP's power-efficient i.MX6 UL, ULL, and ULZ SoCs. The WiFi-equipped, -40 ...

On Wednesday marked the release of AMD's Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise driver package for Windows and Linux...

Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q3 for Linux Released  Phoronix

On Wednesday marked the release of AMD's Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise driver package for Windows and Linux. The Radeon Pro Software for ...

AMD's official open-source Vulkan driver code had fallen off its roughly weekly code push / release cadence with not having a new release in nearly three weeks, but that changed today with the availability of AMDVLK 2019.Q3.4...

The KDE community has delivered the release of KDE Applications 19.08 as their newest feature updates to the core collection of KDE programs...

Daily user management tasks made easy for every Linux administrator  TechGenix

In this article, we will be going over some tasks that a Linux administrator may need to perform daily related to user management.

Microsoft's newest specification is the "Component Firmware Update" that they envision as a standard for OEMs/IHVs to be able to handle device firmware/microcode updating in a robust and secure manner. While nice in theory, the actual implementation has a number of issues that complicate the process and could quickly evolve into another troubling specification from Microsoft in the hardware space...

Linux-maker Red Hat Purchase Adds Risk to Owning IBM Stock  Nasdaq

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading TipsIBM (NYSE: IBM ) stock continues to struggle. Since hitting highs above $215 per.

Intel has released a new version of their SYCL compiler and run-time code for single-source C++ programming and allowing offloaded computations to accelerators via OpenCL...

Linux-maker Red Hat Purchase Adds Risk to Owning IBM Stock  Investorplace.com

IBM has fallen behind many of its peers, meaning the immediate future of IBM stock hinges on the success of integrating Red Hat.