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Ubuntu 'command-not-found' tool can be abused to spread malware  BleepingComputer

Earlier this month at FOSDEM in Brussels was a presentation by developers Brendan Abolivier, Ikey Doherty, and Sean Burke on the Thunderbird mail client beginning to make use of the Rust programming language within its codebase...

The best Linux distros for 2024 #Linux @AndroidAuth « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and ...  Adafruit Blog

As an important notice to those with new TUXEDO laptops such as the TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 powered by the Ryzen 7 7840HS, installing their DKMS-based driver package can be very important if aiming to achieve maximum performance.

Paradox confirm no Linux support for Prison Architect 2 but investigating Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

While there is already the work underway on allowing the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel in part to leverage its memory safety potential, a proposal was sent out this morning for a new "SandBox Mode" for the Linux kernel to also increase the memory safety of C code within the kernel...

"SandBox Mode" Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Improve Memory Safety  Phoronix

A new feature coming with the display engine on Intel Lunar Lake's Xe2 graphics is an adaptive sharpening filter that has minimal power and performance impact...

Intel Prepares For New Adaptive Sharpening Filter Coming With Lunar Lake's Xe2 Graphics  Phoronix

With the Nouveau driver support for using the NVIDIA GSP (GPU System Processor) that was added in Linux 6.7, that is only used by default on the GeForce RTX 40 "Ada" GPUs and moving forward where otherwise there is no accelerated support. The NVIDIA GSP is present in the GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" and RTX 30 "Ampere" hardware too, but not used by default unless setting a module option to enable the mode. However, a new patch is pending that would allow kernel builders to optionally enable the GSP mode by default...

Intel's oneDNN Deep Neural Network Library used for building deep learning applications is preparing another release that continues going heavy on performance optimizations and preparing for future Intel hardware generations...

Damn Small Linux returns after a 12-year gap  The Register

Damn Small Linux returns after damn large release gap  The Register

The Linux Foundation Launches Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance with AWS, Google, IBM and Others  IndianWeb2.com

The post How to Use Awk to Print Fields and Columns in File first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Awk is a powerful text processing tool that allows for efficient manipulation and extraction of information from files, particularly for handling structured data such as

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When we run certain commands in Linux to read or edit text from a string or file, we often try to filter the output to

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Someone tried to get Linux to run natively on original NES console hardware from the 1980s  TweakTown

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The importance of financial management and accounting practices in personal life or small enterprise businesses is one of the growing factors of a business. There

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Having a good document collaboration platform is what can help you increase your productivity and allow you to collaborate with other Linux users in real-time,

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In development the past several months has been patches to allow changing the compression algorithm used by the hibernation images of the Linux kernel while preserving the system memory contents. With using LZ4 yields faster system restore times from hibernation than the current de facto compression algorithm used of LZO. This work is now queued for introduction in Linux 6.9...