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The post Shorewall – A High-Level Firewall for Configuring Linux Servers first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Setting up a firewall in Linux can be very daunting for a newbie, or someone not very familiar with iptables. Luckily, there is a very

The post Shorewall – A High-Level Firewall for Configuring Linux Servers first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Following discussions from last year's Linux Plumbers Conference, a Windows NT synchronization primitive driver has been proposed for the Linux kernel. This driver would expose /dev/ntsync as a new character device for implementing some of the Windows NT synchronization primitives directly within the Linux kernel. In turn this would help the performance of some Windows games/applications running on Linux via Wine and in some cases would mean significantly better performance...

Windows NT Sync Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel - Better Wine Performance  Phoronix

The cross-platform OBS software that is popular with game streamers and others live-recording their desktops has finally landed support for AV1 video encoding using Linux's Video Acceleration API (VA-API) interface...

The post How to Install Git and Create a Git Repository first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you have spent any amount of time recently in the Linux world, then chances are that you have heard of GIT, which is a

The post How to Install Git and Create a Git Repository first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

AMD's Advanced Media Framework Adds Pro Vulkan & Experimental RADV Support  Phoronix

AMD's GPUOpen team today released version 1.4.33 of the Advanced Media Framework (AMF) SDK. The AMF SDK continues to be focused on delivering optimal access to AMD hardware for multimedia processing under both Windows and Linux...

While AMD's GPUOpen team developed the Radeon Memory Visualizer for their own Radeon graphics processors, thanks to the software working out well and being open-source and the profiling/dump format being public, the Intel open-source Vulkan Linux driver has added support for it. With the Intel ANV Mesa driver you can now generate Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV) compatible dumps that can then be loaded into the GPUOpen software for analyzing the video memory behavior of Intel's integrated and discrete graphics...

The Sad Truth About Develop on Linux | by Alef | Jan, 2024  Medium

Firefox 122 Has Better Search Results and New Linux Packages  How-To Geek

Mozilla Firefox 123 Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect  9to5Linux

New Mozilla Firefox package for Linux is a game-changer for Ubuntu and Debian users  BetaNews

In addition to Firefox 122 making it to stable today, Google has also promoted their Chrome 121 web browser to its stable channel...

How to avoid malware on Linux systems  TechTarget

It's 2024 and sadly the real-time (RT) patches still have yet to be mainlined for the Linux kernel. At least though the out-of-tree patches continue to be quickly re-based and decrease in size over time... Out today is the Linux v6.8-rc1-rt1 patches for bringing the real-time support against the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel...

Real-Time Patches Updated Against The Linux 6.8 Kernel  Phoronix

PlayStation Remote Play for Steam Deck 'chiaki4deck' update fixes framepacing issues  GamingOnLinux

How to Use the history Command on Linux  How-To Geek

SteamOS alternative Bazzite v2.2 out now with lots of enhancements  GamingOnLinux

Firefox 122 Released with Official Deb for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc  OMG! Ubuntu!