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WayVNC 0.8 Adds Auto Server-Side Resizing Of Headless Outputs, Detached Mode

Phoronix - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 13:00
WayVNC 0.8 was released this weekend as the VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC attaches to wlroots-using compositors and creators virtual input devices and exposes the display via the RFB protocol for the lack of Wayland having any standardized VNC-type support for remote/network computing...

Pydio Cells: Free Self-Hosted Document Collaboration Platform

Tecmint - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 12:00
The post Pydio Cells: Free Self-Hosted Document Collaboration Platform first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Formerly known as just Pydio, Pydio Cells is an open-source document sharing and synchronization software that combines fast performance, granular security, huge file transfer sizes,

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Linux 6.8-rc6 Released: This Kernel May Need An Extra Week For Testing

Phoronix - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 08:20
The Linux 6.8 kernel continues coming together well and the v6.8-rc6 milestone is now available for testing. If all goes well Linux 6.8 will debut as stable in two weeks but with how things are currently pacing could end up being three weeks...

How the telco ecosystem can make a more meaningful, measurable impact on sustainability

Red Hat News - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 08:00
It would be great if we could flip a switch on the networks that currently consume about 3% of the world's power and emit roughly 2% of the world's greenhouse gasses to make them more sustainable. And I’m sure any telecommunications service provider would want to reduce their network operating costs by being more energy efficient. But achieving sustainability goals is a complex and layered problem, and one that requires an entire ecosystem to work together to reduce the telecommunication industry’s carbon dioxide footprint. Many service providers are looking to advanced data analytics powe

How private 5G can unlock the promise of industrial AI

Red Hat News - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 08:00
The industrial ecosystem is advancing at an incredible pace – rapid technology development and adoption cycles present massive opportunities for greater operational efficiency and productivity. But to pull this off, manufacturers need advanced connectivity that neither on-site cabling or ethernet can provide. Enter private 5G. Private 5G systems offer unified network function and application connectivity closer to end users, thanks to virtualized and cloud-native radio access networks (RAN) and 5G core (5GC) implementations linked by open standards-based interfaces. Private 5G can deliver th

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Lands Improvements For ReBAR

Phoronix - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 00:49
The open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver within Mesa 24.1-devel has seen improvements made for systems capable of Resizable BAR "ReBAR" support...

GNOME Makes Progress On GPU-Accelerated Screencasting, systemd-homed Home Encryption

Phoronix - Sun, 02/25/2024 - 23:53
GNOME developers remain quite busy with various new initiatives thanks to their funding from their Sovereign Tech Fund. There's some screencasting enhancements still on deck for GNOME 46, various GNOME accessibility improvements forthcoming, and also ongoing work around systemd-homed home directory encryption support...

Linux 6.8 x86/urgent Update Beefs Up Protection Against Side Channel CPU Bugs

Phoronix - Sun, 02/25/2024 - 19:41
Sent in this morning via the "x86/urgent" pull request ahead of the Linux 6.8-rc6 kernel later today is a set of patches from Intel to ensure clearing of CPU buffers using the VERW instruction happens at the latest possible point in the return-to-userspace code path. This is being done to better protect against CPU bugs like Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS)...

Bcachefs Publishes Patches For Disk Accounting Rewrite

Phoronix - Sun, 02/25/2024 - 19:26
Kent Overstreet on Saturday evening posted a set of 21 patches to overhaul the disk accounting code for the Bcachefs file-system. This change does break compatibility with the existing disk accounting on-disk format and thus will require an upgrade when moving to the new version, which may land for Linux v6.9...

Microsoft Pushes Out Big February Update For CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro

Phoronix - Sun, 02/25/2024 - 18:46
Microsoft's in-house CBL-Mariner Linux distribution has routinely seen weekly-ish updates to this open-source code used within Azure, WSL, and other areas of the Redmond company. But it's been one month since the prior CBL-Mariner 2.0 release... That changed Saturday night with a shiny new release...

What Is X86-64-v3? - Hackaday

Google News - Sun, 02/25/2024 - 17:00
What Is X86-64-v3?  Hackaday

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