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How to Split Large ‘tar’ Archive into Multiple Files of Certain Size

Tecmint - Tue, 09/03/2024 - 15:00
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Are you worried about transferring or uploading large files over a network? Worry no more, because you can move your

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Firefox 130 Now Available With WebCodecs API Enabled On The Desktop

Phoronix - Tue, 09/03/2024 - 08:22
Firefox 130 web browser binaries were published today ahead of the official release announcement going out on Tuesday. Firefox 130 isn't too particularly exciting but there are a few changes worth mentioning...

AMD GCN3 / Fiji Support Being Retired From The GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 09/02/2024 - 22:36
The AMD GCN3 (GFX8) support and in particular the Fiji GPU support is being retired from the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The Fiji GPU support in the GCC compiler was already deprecated in part due to the LLVM compiler having already removed Fiji support months ago and the AMD ROCm compute driver having broken GCN3 / Fiji support for years...

New Rust PHY Network Driver To Be Merged In Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Mon, 09/02/2024 - 20:47
One year ago the first Rust-written network PHY driver was merged for the Linux 6.8 kernel. Since then we've continued seeing steady progress on more Rust-written Linux network code. With the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window another Rust PHY driver is set to be introduced...

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