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Cloudflare Continues To Praise Open-Source OpenBMC

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 18:16
It was just one and a half years ago that Cloudflare began rolling out OpenBMC on their massive array of servers to replace traditional proprietary Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware stacks. Since the end of last year they've been talking up their successes using OpenBMC and now as we approach two years of their OpenBMC use within production, they continue singing the praise of this open-source, Linux-based BMC software stack...

Intel Upstreams Firmware For Newer WiFi Chipsets On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 18:07
Intel has upstreamed the firmware for their "BlazarU" core to linux-firmware.git for improving the out-of-the-box wireless experience with newer Intel WiFi adapters...

7 Useful X-Window (GUI-Based) Linux Commands – Part 2

Tecmint - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 15:15
The post 7 Useful X-Window (GUI-Based) Linux Commands – Part 2 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In our previous article on X-window (GUI-based) Linux commands, we covered several useful graphical commands. Adding to that list, we

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11 Useful X-window (GUI Based) Linux Commands – Part I

Tecmint - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 14:00
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We, the Tecmint Team, are dedicated to creating high-quality articles about Linux and open-source topics. Since we started, we’ve put

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How to Use diff3 Command for File Merging in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 13:14
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The diff3 command in Linux is a helpful tool that compares three files and shows their differences, which is mainly

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The Free Software Foundation Finally Has AI / Machine Learning Apps On Their Radar

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 12:00
The Free Software Foundation announced on Tuesday they have begun work on "freedom in machine learning applications". Or in particular, a to-be-issued "statement" on free machine learning applications for software and the associated scripts and training data...

Rust-Written Rustls Now Reportedly Outperforming OpenSSL & BoringSSL

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 04:36
Rustls was initially talked up as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees. But now besides the talked up advantages due to being written in Rust, it has reached the point of reportedly being faster than both OpenSSL and BoringSSL...

Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 02:22
Quietly merged into this week's Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers...

AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Now Available For Testing, Derived From CentOS Stream 10

Phoronix - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 00:15
AlmaLinux Kitten 10 has been introduced today as what will be the next iteration of this community-based, RHEL/CentOS-derived enterprise-grade Linux distribution. AlmaLinux Kitten 10 is tracking the CentOS Stream 10 sources for what will eventually become the base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10...

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