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VESA announced their first major update to the DisplayPort interface in three years...

Tracking down library injections on Linux  Network World

Library injections are less common on Linux than they are on Windows, but they're still a problem. Here's a look at how they work and how to identify them.

Tracking down library injections on Linux  Network World

Library injections are less common on Linux than they are on Windows, but they're still a problem. Here's a look at how they work and how to identify them.

Concurrent Real-Time Introduces RedHawk Linux for NVIDIA's Jetson AGX Xavier  PRNewswire

POMPANO BEACH, Fla., June 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Concurrent Real-Time, a global provider of high-performance Linux® solutions, today announced a ...

With last week having delivered fresh benchmarks of the mid-range NVIDIA/AMD graphics cards using the very latest drivers, particularly the in-development Linux 5.2 and Mesa 19.2 components with the Radeon graphics cards tested, here is a similar comparison when moving up the spectrum and focusing on the higher-end graphics cards. Here's a look at how the RX 590, RX Vega 56, RX Vega 64, and Radeon VII are performing with the newest open-source AMD driver code compared to the NVIDIA Turing line-up backed by their latest binary driver.

people.kernel.org Has Launched, GitLab 12.0 Released, TheoTown Now on Steam for Linux, Pulseway Introduces New File Transfer Feature, and SUSE Manager 4 and SUSE Manager for Retail 4 Are Now Available  Linux Journal

News briefs for June 26, 2019. Konstantin Ryabitsev yesterday announced the launch of people.kernel.org to replace Google+ for kernel developers.

Back in April we wrote about a proposal for providing better parallelization within GCC itself to address use-cases such as very large source files. That effort was accepted as part of this year's Google Summer of Code and the student developer pursing this parallelization with threads has issued his first progress report...

Matthew R. Higgins  Linux Journal

Matthew Higgins is an English PhD student at Georgia State University. His current research interests include literacy studies, technology in higher education ...

Ten Years of "Linux in the GNU/South": an Overview of SELF 2019  Linux Journal

Highlights of the 2019 Southeast LinuxFest. The tenth annual SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF) was held on the weekend of June 14–16 at the Sheraton Charlotte ...

IGEL Drives the Rapid Growth of Linux OS-Based Devices at the Edge  PRNewswire

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- IGEL, provider of a next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces, today announced the conclusions of the new ...

If you happen to have a Saitek R440 Force Wheel or looking to purchase a cheap and used racing wheel for enjoying the various Linux racing game ports or even the number of games working under Steam Play like F1 2018 and DiRT Rally 2.0, Linux support is on the way...

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The process of Notepad++ installation performed on Ubuntu, however, it will be the same for Linux Mint, Debian and Elementary OS.

Similar to the recent LLVM compiler work, the in-development GCC 10 compiler also now has support for the AVX-512 VP2INTERSECT instructions being introduced on Intel Tiger Lake CPUs...

Fedora's version of the FDK-AAC library that they began shipping in 2017 to finally provide AAC audio support strips out what was patented encumbered functionality. But that gutting of the code did cause some problems like audio playback glitches that are now being addressed...

Freedreno founder Rob Clark, who is now employed by Google to work on open-source graphics, has sent in the batch of MSM Direct Rendering Manager driver changes to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.3 kernel cycle...

While I'm of two minds when it comes to smartphones and tablets, I have to admit they can be useful. Not just for keeping in touch with people or using the web but also to do some work when I'm away from my computer.

For me, that work is writing—articles, blog posts, essays for my weekly letter, e-book chapters, and more. I've tried many (probably too many!) writing apps for Android over the years. Some of them were good. Others fell flat.

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Last year, I decided to try out Endless OS, a lightweight, Linux-based operating system developed to power inexpensive computers for developing markets. I wrote about installing and setting it up. Endless OS is unique because it uses a read-only root file system managed by OSTree and Flatpak, but the Endless company is unique for its approach to education.

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In our last article, we have described in detail on how to install and configure an FTP server in RHEL 8 Linux. In this article, we will explain how to secure an FTP server...

A new security vulnerability has been made public over AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) having insecure cryptographic implementations. Fortunately, this AMD SEV issue is addressed by a firmware update...

As part of Google's consolidating their different toolchains around LLVM, they are exploring the possibility of writing a new C library "libc" implementation...