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11 Lesser Known Useful Linux Commands

Tecmint - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 13:00
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The Linux command line attracts most Linux enthusiasts. A normal Linux user generally possesses a vocabulary of roughly 50-60 commands

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26 Security Hardening Tips for Modern Linux Servers

Tecmint - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 11:00
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Everybody says that Linux is secure by default, and to some extent, this is agreed upon (it’s a debatable topic).

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Freedreno Gallium3D Driver Now Enables The Snapdragon X1 Elite/Plus SoC's GPU

Phoronix - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 04:37
The Freedreno Gallium3D driver that started out a decade ago providing reverse-engineered, open-source 3D driver support for Qualcomm Adreno hardware has now enabled support for the X1-85 GPU that is found within the Snapdragon X1 Elite and Snapdragon X1 Plus laptop SoCs...

Fedora 41 Proceeds With AMD SEV-SNP Virtualization Host Support For Confidential VMs

Phoronix - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 02:43
The Fedora change proposal was approved this week by their engineering and steering committee to support AMD SEV-SNP virtualization host support to allow easily launching confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) with Fedora 41...

AWS Graviton4 96-Core Performance vs. AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 00:00
Last week I published some initial benchmarks of the Amazon/AWS Graviton4 processors now available within the EC2 cloud using the new "R8g" instances. That initial comparison was a 64 vCPU comparison of Graviton4 against AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon 64 vCPU AWS instances. In today's article is a look at the 96-core Graviton4 bare metal performance using the "r8g.metal-24xl" AWS instance type. The Graviton4 r8g.metal-24xl performance was then compared in today's article against various bare metal AMD EPYC, Ampere Altra Max, and Intel Xeon processors in the lab at Phoronix.

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