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OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns

Phoronix - Mon, 02/12/2024 - 19:52
At the end of last year OpenZFS 2.2.2 was released to fix a rare but nasty data corruption issue but it turns out there are other data corruption bug(s) still lurking in the OpenZFS file-system codebase...

Linux 6.9 To Support Samsung Wireless Gamepad, Keyboards & Action Mouse

Phoronix - Mon, 02/12/2024 - 19:41
Samsung engineers have been extending their "samsung" HID driver to support more of their wireless input devices by the mainline Linux kernel...

AMDGPU LLVM Adding GFX 9/10/11 "Generic Targets" To Build Once & Run On Multiple GPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 02/12/2024 - 19:28
Code merged today to mainline LLVM is preparing for the notion of generic targets across the GFX9, GFX10, and GFX11 GPU families. With follow-on work these generic targets are aiming to allow compiling code once and then running across multiple GPUs in the given hardware family...

Rust Kernel Support On AArch64 Ready To Go For Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Mon, 02/12/2024 - 19:19
The 64-bit Arm (AArch64) little-endian kernel will be ready to support the Rust kernel code with the upcoming Linux 6.9 cycle...

8 Useful ‘Debian Goodies Utilities’ for Package Management

Tecmint - Mon, 02/12/2024 - 16:00
The post 8 Useful ‘Debian Goodies Utilities’ for Package Management first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Debian-goodies is a package that includes toolbox-style utilities used to manage Debian and its derivative systems such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali Linux, etc. The

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How to Delete User Accounts and Their Home Directories in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 02/12/2024 - 14:00
The post How to Delete User Accounts and Their Home Directories in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

As a System Administrator in Linux, you may have to remove a user’s account after some time when a user account may become dormant for

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GNOME Mutter 46 Beta A Win For Gamers & VM Users, Other Last Minute Changes Too

Phoronix - Mon, 02/12/2024 - 09:35
GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor today issued their GNOME 46 Beta releases with some notable changes ahead of the API/ABI and feature freezes for the GNOME 46 desktop due for release in March...

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