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Hackers Attacking Linux Cloud Servers To Gain Complete Control  GBHackers

AMD compiler engineers have released AOMP 19.0-2 as the newest version of their downstream LLVM/Clang compiler that carries all of their latest work around OpenMP/AOCC GPU device offloading to Radeon and Instinct hardware. With this updated AOMP compiler is now run-time support for zero-copy with CPU-GPU unified shared memory and various other new features for this GPU/accelerator-focused compiler...

Last year a new kernel feature merged in Linux 6.6 was multi-grain(ed) timestamps for file-systems as a means of better timestamp handling originally for NFS compared to the existing coarse-grained timestamps with the once per jiffy timestamps being used for invalidating NFS caches. But multi-grain timestamps was reverted just weeks after landing in the mainline kernel due to corner cases like a newer file with a coarse-grained timestamp appearing earlier than another file with a fine-grained timestamp. Due to subtle bugs like that, multi-grain timestamps were dropped before Linux 6.6 was even released while now there is a revised attempt...

Arch Linux Guided Installer v2.8.1 Release Tests LVM Support!  It's FOSS News

Upcoming Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors will support a new Structural Based Functional Test at Field (SBAF) testing capability to help verify the health of the CPU cores...

Intel Granite Rapids Brings New "SBAF" Core Testing Capability  Phoronix

How to Build Your Own Portable Linux  Linux Journal

The post RHCSA Series: How to Manage Users and Groups in RHEL – Part 5 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Managing a RHEL server, as it is the case with any other Linux server, will require that you know how

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FOSS Weekly #24.26: Tiling Windows, AI Coming to Firefox, EasyOS, PDF Editing in ONLYOFFICE  It's FOSS

The post RHCSA Series: Editing Text Files Using Nano, Vim, grep & regexps – Part 4 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Every system administrator has to deal with text files as part of his daily responsibilities, which include editing existing files

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Following a more than one year long process, the Free Software Foundation today named three additional board members...

Intel today issued the Compute Runtime 24.22.29735.20 release as their open-source driver providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero capabilities on Windows and Linux systems. This update was joined by an updated Intel Graphics Compiler, IGC 1.0.16900.23...

Intel Compute Runtime 24.22.29735.20 Brings Latest OpenCL & Level Zero Support On Linux  Phoronix

Xojo 2024 Release 2 Introduces Easy Database Connection, Web Performance Improvements, iOS Manifest Privacy ...  Longview News-Journal

Xojo 2024 Release 2 Introduces Easy Database Connection, Web Performance Improvements, iOS Manifest Privacy ...  PR Newswire

Xojo 2024 Release 2 Introduces Easy Database Connection, Web Performance Improvements, iOS Manifest Privacy ...  WV News

This All-in-One Linux Distro Isn't for Everyone, but It Cured My Distro-Hopping Habit  How-To Geek

Steam Game Recording Beta announced - works on Linux and Steam Deck too  GamingOnLinux

HORI announced a special gamepad for Steam / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Linux Media Player Celluloid Adds Slick New UI Option  OMG! Ubuntu!