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10 Tools to Take or Capture Desktop Screenshots in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 13:48
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Most of the time we need to take screenshots of the whole screen or some part of the window on the screen. While on Android

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Linux Fix Incoming For Intel Fallout After The Kernel Disabled Buggy AMD fTPM RNG

Phoronix - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 07:58
The decision last month for the Linux kernel to disable random number generation (RNG) for all AMD fTPMs ended up having some unintended consequences on Intel systems that ended up breaking S3 suspend behavior...

Microsoft Adds AMD SEV-SNP & Intel TDX Guest Support To Hyper-V With Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 05:14
Microsoft continues improving the Hyper-V support within the Linux kernel for benefiting Linux guest VMs running within this hypervisor on Windows. With Linux 6.6 the Hyper-V code adds support for SEV-SNP secure guests on the AMD EPYC side while over on the Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids side is initial support for Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) protected guests...

DXVK 2.3 Brings Presentation Improvements, More Game Fixes, "hideNvidiaGpu" Option

Phoronix - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 00:10
It's been nearly four months since the release of DXVK 2.2 for this Direct3D 9/10/11 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying Windows games on Linux. Out today is DXVK 2.3 as the latest major step forward for the project...

AMD P-State Fixes & Other Power Management Changes For Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Mon, 09/04/2023 - 22:07
The ACPI and power management updates were merged last week for the Linux 6.6 kernel...

uutils 0.0.21 Released With More Improvements For GNU Coreutils Written In Rust

Phoronix - Mon, 09/04/2023 - 20:17
Released at the end of August was GNU Coreutils 9.4 while out this weekend is uutils 0.0.21 as the open-source, Rust-written re-implementation of the Coreutils utilities...

Printk Cleanups Ready For Linux 6.6 - Stepping Towards Threaded/Atomic Console Printing

Phoronix - Mon, 09/04/2023 - 19:58
A set of printk clean-ups were sent in today for the Linux 6.6 merge window. These clean-ups are important as they are a stepping stone towards the threaded / atomic console printing and in turn that is the last major blocker before the real-time (PREEMPT_RT) support can finally be upstreamed in the kernel...

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