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Servo Web Engine Now Passing Acid2 Layout Engine Test

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 18:08
The Servo web engine developers have enjoyed a busy April with a number of new features added to this Rust creation...

Microsoft Open-Sources MS-DOS 4.0 Under MIT License

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 17:57
After publishing open-source versions of MS-DOS years ago for versions 1.25 and 2.0, Microsoft and IBM have now announced that MS-DOS 4.0 has been open-sourced under an MIT license...

BCC – Tracing Tools for Linux IO, Networking, Monitoring, and More

Tecmint - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 14:31
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BCC (BPF Compiler Collection) is a powerful set of appropriate tools and example files for creating resourceful kernel tracing and manipulation programs. It utilizes extended

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Setting Up LAMP (Apache, MariaDB, PHP) on Fedora 40 Server

Tecmint - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 13:00
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After installing the Fedora 40 server edition, you might want to host a website on your server. To do this, you need a reliable server

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vlock: The Smart Way to Lock Your Linux Terminal

Tecmint - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 12:00
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Virtual consoles are very important features of Linux, and they provide a system user a shell prompt to use the system in a non-graphical setup

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Systemd 256-rc1 Brings A Huge Number Of New Features

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 08:35
Systemd 256-rc1 is available this evening and it comes with many new features and improvements to existing features. It's a big one...

NVIDIA Developer Opens Feature Pull Request For Open-Source NVK Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 05:06
If your interest didn't pique enough when the former Nouveau lead developer joined NVIDIA and sent out a big patch series for this originally-reverse-engineered, open-source NVIDIA kernel driver, here's another plot twist: another NVIDIA engineer opening a merge request adding to the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver...

Red Hat Offering Up To 4 Years Extra Support For RHEL7

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 04:43
This year already marks ten years since the introduction of RHEL 7. While the Red Hat Enterprise Linux support period is typically 10 years, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 they have decided to extend that by up to four years with Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS)...

Wayland 1.23 Alpha Released With OpenBSD Support & New APIs

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 01:14
As expected, the Wayland 1.23 Alpha release is now available as this next Wayland release looks to officially roll-out toward the end of May...

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