AMD P-State is the modern CPU frequency scaling driver for AMD Ryzen processors on Linux. Rather than relying on the older ...

Linux kernel developers are moving forward with plans to remove the crypto_rng API layer, a long-standing component of the ...

Intel’s open-source Linux graphics stack has taken another step forward with hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding through Vulkan Video. New code merged for Mesa’s ANV Vulkan driver enables the ...

Discover how Intel’s open-source Linux Vulkan driver is adding hardware-accelerated AV1 video encoding for Arc Alchemist GPUs, expanding Vulkan Video support for modern multimedia workloads.

Oracle released version 10.2.0.1 of the database (10g release 2) Oracle released version 2.0 of the ASM kernel driver and libraries Oracle released version 2.0 of the Oracle Cluster File System As you ...

How to Know When You've Outgrown Cron Scheduling--and What to Do Next If you've spent any time around UNIX, you've no doubt learned to use and appreciate cron, the ...

Discover how GOG is bringing its Galaxy launcher to Linux, giving gamers native access to DRM-free library management, cloud saves, achievements, and other long-awaited features while strengthening ...

One amazing thing about Linux is that the same code base is used for a different range of computing systems, from supercomputers to very tiny embedded devices. If you stop for a second and think about ...

The MX Linux project has taken a firm stance in a growing controversy across the Linux ecosystem: mandatory age-verification requirements at the operating system level. In a recent update, the team ...

John McCutchan and I had been working on inotify for about a year when it was finally merged into Linus' kernel tree and released with kernel version 2.6.13. Although a long struggle, the effort ...

VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a technology that provides secure communication through an insecure and untrusted network (like the Internet). Usually, it achieves this by authentication, encryption, ...

Stories of compromised servers and data theft fill today's news. It isn't difficult for someone who has read an informative blog post to access a system via a misconfigured service, take advantage of ...