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LLVM Clang 19 Branched, LLVM 20 Enters Development- No AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" Merged Yet

Phoronix - Tue, 07/23/2024 - 19:07
As scheduled, LLVM Clang 19 was branched from mainline Git this morning and is now considered feature frozen ahead of its planned September release. LLVM Clang 20 in turn is now in development with the main Git branch...

AMD ROCm 6.2 Release Appears Imminent For Advancing Open-Source GPU Compute

Phoronix - Tue, 07/23/2024 - 18:40
We appear to be on the heels of the AMD ROCm 6.2 software release for advancing the open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compute stack with new features...

Linux 6.11 Begins Upstreaming Support For KEBA CP500 System FPGA

Phoronix - Tue, 07/23/2024 - 18:35
Greg Kroah-Hartman described the char/misc pull request for the Linux 6.11 merge window as having "just loads of new drivers and updates." Among the new drivers is beginning to enable support for the KEBA CP500 as the latest FPGA seeing upstream kernel support...

OpenBSD Now Supports VA-API Video Acceleration

Phoronix - Tue, 07/23/2024 - 18:17
The BSDs unfortunately continue to lag behind Linux in their GPU driver support. The latest example of this is OpenBSD only days ago seeing initial support for the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) merged for GPU-accelerated video playback on that BSD platform...

LoongArch Enables More Kernel Features With Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Tue, 07/23/2024 - 18:09
The LoongArch CPU architecture changes were submitted and subsequently merged on Monday for the ongoing Linux 6.11 merge window. With the new kernel these Chinese processors support more kernel features for this MIPS-derived and RISC-V-inspired architecture...

X.Org Testing Ground Expands Its Scope To Illumos/OpenIndiana

Phoronix - Tue, 07/23/2024 - 18:00
Coming just a day after posting a big set of patches for improving VRR display support under the X.Org Server, Enrico Weigelt today announced the release of the X.Org Testing Ground v0.0.4 software that now supports OpenIndiana / Illumos (OpenSolaris) in addition to its Linux and BSD platform support...

How to Install TrueNAS (Network-Attached Storage) – Part 1

Tecmint - Tue, 07/23/2024 - 15:00
The post How to Install TrueNAS (Network-Attached Storage) – Part 1 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

TrueNAS CORE (formerly FreeNAS) is a popular storage system that helps you build your own high-quality storage setup without paying

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How to Set Up SFTP User on Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 07/23/2024 - 13:58
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To create an SFTP user in Linux, you can follow a systematic approach that ensures the user has restricted access

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