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New WiFi Authentication Vulnerabilities For Linux's IWD & WPA_Supplicant

Phoronix - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 22:16
Kicking off what may end up being a fairly busy Patch Tuesday are two WiFi authentication vulnerabilities being made public that affect Intel's IWD daemon as well as the WPA_Supplicant software -- between the two they are the most common solutions for wireless daemons on Linux systems...

The Current State & Plans For Porting Linux/BSD Software To Redox OS

Phoronix - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 22:03
A new blog post was posted by the Redox OS team that is working on their Rust-written micro-kernel designed open-source operating system. Their latest post lays out their porting strategy for getting more Linux and BSD user-space software running on this Rust-based OS...

Fedora 40 Cleared To Ship AMD ROCm 6, Packages May Reintroduce KDE X11 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 19:56
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) on Monday approved some last-minute features ahead of the Fedora Linux 40 release quickly coming up in February...

Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Sees "Massive Boost" With Indirect Draw Generation

Phoronix - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 19:33
Intel's Iris Gallium3D driver for providing open-source OpenGL support on Linux systems has implemented indirect draw generation. For software relying heavily on indirect draws will see a "massive boost" in performance...

FEX 2402 Brings More Performance Improvements For x86_64 Binaries On AArch64

Phoronix - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 14:00
The FEX emulator 2402 release is now available for this open-source project allowing x86_64 binaries to run on AArch64 (ARM64) platforms, including games and the likes of Valve's Steam Play software...

How to Extract Tar Files to Specific or Different Directory in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 13:00
The post How to Extract Tar Files to Specific or Different Directory in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The tar command is one of the utilities that you can use to create a backup on a Linux system. It includes many options that

The post How to Extract Tar Files to Specific or Different Directory in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

FreeBSD Continues Push Toward Deprecating 32-bit Platforms

Phoronix - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 13:00
As noted in prior Phoronix articles for months, FreeBSD 14 is likely to be the last for supporting prominent 32-bit systems. On the FreeBSD mailing list more details on the FreeBSD 32-bit deprecation process was posted this week...

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