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Linux Prepares For Intel Arrow Lake H With Mix Of Lion Cove, Skymont & Crestmont Cores

Phoronix - Thu, 08/08/2024 - 19:00
With upcoming Intel Arrow Lake H processors it's just not P cores and E cores but for the E cores will be a mix of both Skymont and Crestmont core types...

GNOME's libspelling Turns To Threads For Much Faster Spell Checking

Phoronix - Thu, 08/08/2024 - 18:47
GNOME's libspelling library is seeing up to eight times faster spell checking performance thanks to threading and other optimizations...

fsck.exfat Can Now Check & Repair Filenames With Invalid Characters

Phoronix - Thu, 08/08/2024 - 18:33
For those making use of Microsoft's exFAT file-system on Linux systems, the user-space programs within exfatprogs have been updated that also include more robust "fsck.exfat" capabilities for checking and repairing exFAT file-systems...

Hyprland 0.42 Wayland Compositor Ditches Wlroots, Adds Explicit Sync Support

Phoronix - Thu, 08/08/2024 - 18:25
Hyprland 0.42 has been released as the newest feature release to this dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that remains "100% independent" and "doesn't sacrifice on its looks." Hyprland had been doing some heavy lifting via the Wlroots library but now in version 0.42 that dependency is eliminated...

How to Sync New and Changed Files Using ‘rsync’ Command

Tecmint - Thu, 08/08/2024 - 13:55
The post How to Sync New and Changed Files Using ‘rsync’ Command first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

As a system administrator or Linux power user, you may have probably come across or even on several occasions, used

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Parrot OS: Security-Focused Linux Distro for Security and Privacy

Tecmint - Thu, 08/08/2024 - 12:31
The post Parrot OS: Security-Focused Linux Distro for Security and Privacy first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Parrot Security (ParrotOS, Parrot) is a free and open-source Debian-based Linux distribution, which is designed for security experts, developers, and

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9 Best Self-Hosted Alternatives to Google Photos

Tecmint - Thu, 08/08/2024 - 11:24
The post 9 Best Self-Hosted Alternatives to Google Photos first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Google Photos is a powerful and formidable solution for backing up, managing, organizing, and sharing photos. However, it’s not without

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Valve's SteamOS 3.6.9 Beta Brings Many Fixes & Supports More Controllers

Phoronix - Thu, 08/08/2024 - 09:09
Valve has just released a SteamOS 3.6.9 beta as the newest update to their Arch Linux derived operating system powering the Steam Deck and other gaming devices...

GhostWrite Vulnerability Affects RISC-V CPU, Mitigating Takes A ~77% Performance Hit

Phoronix - Thu, 08/08/2024 - 02:27
Security researchers with the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security have disclosed GhostWrite, a new CPU vulnerability affecting a common RISC-V processor...

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