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Unvanquished Working On OpenGL 4.6 Renderer Support

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 18:38
It's been a while since we have seen anything new to report on Unvanquished as one of the few remaining and promising open-source game projects. The Unvanquished FPS/RTS game has been in development for 12 years now and built atop the Daemon engine that is now a very distant fork from the id Tech 3 engine. The latest now is that Unvanquished has been pushing forward OpenGL 4.6 rendering support...

ARM64 SMT Control Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 18:25
While ARM-based SoCs with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) aren't too common, there do exist some such as select models of the Huawei Kunpeng server SoC with SMT or there HiSilicon Kirin 9000S. As such Huawei/HiSilicon engineers have been working to expose SMT controls on ARM64 for the Linux kernel...

LibreSSL 4.0 Released With EmScripten Support, Fixes Windows Support Past Y2038

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 18:06
The OpenBSD project has released LibreSSL 4.0 as the newest version of this open-source TLS implementation that was forked from OpenSSL a decade ago...

36 Useful Apache ‘.htaccess’ Tricks for Security and Performance

Tecmint - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 14:00
The post 36 Useful Apache ‘.htaccess’ Tricks for Security and Performance first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The .htaccess file is a powerful configuration file used on Apache-based web servers to manage and modify settings at the

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Inkscape: A Powerful Free Alternative to Adobe Illustrator

Tecmint - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 12:52
The post Inkscape: A Powerful Free Alternative to Adobe Illustrator first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Inkscape is a popular free and open-source vector graphics editor, used by artists, designers, and anyone who wants to create

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How to Manage Firewalld and UFW on Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 12:31
The post How to Manage Firewalld and UFW on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

A firewall is a software that acts as a protective barrier between a user’s system and external networks, allowing or

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OpenZFS 2.3-rc2 Brings CPU Pinning & Optimized Kernel Same-Page Merging

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 08:11
OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 released last week with RAIDZ expansion, fast deduplication, and direct IO support among other changes for this ZFS file-system implementation for use on Linux and FreeBSD systems. OpenZFS 2.3-rc2 is out today with a few more interesting changes...

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