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11 Lesser Known Useful Linux Commands

Tecmint - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 13:00
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The Linux command line attracts most Linux enthusiasts. A normal Linux user generally possesses a vocabulary of roughly 50-60 commands

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26 Security Hardening Tips for Modern Linux Servers

Tecmint - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 11:00
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Everybody says that Linux is secure by default, and to some extent, this is agreed upon (it’s a debatable topic).

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Freedreno Gallium3D Driver Now Enables The Snapdragon X1 Elite/Plus SoC's GPU

Phoronix - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 04:37
The Freedreno Gallium3D driver that started out a decade ago providing reverse-engineered, open-source 3D driver support for Qualcomm Adreno hardware has now enabled support for the X1-85 GPU that is found within the Snapdragon X1 Elite and Snapdragon X1 Plus laptop SoCs...

Fedora 41 Proceeds With AMD SEV-SNP Virtualization Host Support For Confidential VMs

Phoronix - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 02:43
The Fedora change proposal was approved this week by their engineering and steering committee to support AMD SEV-SNP virtualization host support to allow easily launching confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) with Fedora 41...

AWS Graviton4 96-Core Performance vs. AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 00:00
Last week I published some initial benchmarks of the Amazon/AWS Graviton4 processors now available within the EC2 cloud using the new "R8g" instances. That initial comparison was a 64 vCPU comparison of Graviton4 against AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon 64 vCPU AWS instances. In today's article is a look at the 96-core Graviton4 bare metal performance using the "r8g.metal-24xl" AWS instance type. The Graviton4 r8g.metal-24xl performance was then compared in today's article against various bare metal AMD EPYC, Ampere Altra Max, and Intel Xeon processors in the lab at Phoronix.

AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" Linux Driver Support Matures To Being Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 21:00
It looks like the AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" graphics driver support is in good shape: AMD is now enabling the driver support for the next-generation graphics "out of the box" with the latest pending patches...

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