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Ubuntu Will Be Skipping Non-Critical Linux Kernel Updates For September

Phoronix - Thu, 08/22/2024 - 20:37
With the exception of critical security issues/bugs, Canonical will be skipping over shipping stable release updates for the Linux kernel in Ubuntu until early October...

Mozilla Developing Whisperfile For Local Audio-To-Text Translation

Phoronix - Thu, 08/22/2024 - 18:59
The Mozilla Ocho group leads "innovation and experiments" at Mozilla. Following all of their work on Llamafile for easily distributing large language models as a single file that can be easily executed across different hardware/software, their newest effort is Whisperfile for easy audio-to-text translations...

Intel Further Speeds Up strnlen() In The GNU C Library For Recent Intel/AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 08/22/2024 - 18:26
Intel software engineers are responsible for many of the great x86_64-related optimizations to the GNU C Library "glibc" over the years. While they've extensively tuned many Glibc functions for achieving peak performance on their modern CPUs, it's a never-ending quest. Merged this week was another optimization to strnlen(), the function for determining the number of bytes in a fixed-size string...

Fwupd 1.9.24 Adds Support For More Mediatek & Parade Tech Devices

Phoronix - Thu, 08/22/2024 - 18:20
While celebrating the 9th birthday of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes has released a new version of the Fwupd firmware updating utility...

LibreOffice 24.8 Delivers Many Advancements To This Free Software Office Suite

Phoronix - Thu, 08/22/2024 - 17:55
LibreOffice 24.8 is officially out today as the latest major feature update to this open-source office suite that's the leading free software alternative to Microsoft Office. With LibreOffice 24.8 comes many new features throughout its various components...

How to Use Flow Control Statements in Awk – Part 12

Tecmint - Thu, 08/22/2024 - 15:00
The post How to Use Flow Control Statements in Awk – Part 12 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

When you review all the Awk examples we have covered so far, right from the start of the Awk series,

The post How to Use Flow Control Statements in Awk – Part 12 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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