September 2020
Intel: DG1, Media Driver 2020.3 and Key Locker Support
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 30th of September 2020 10:31:55 PM Filed under

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Intel Sends Out Latest DG1 Linux Patches But Won't Hit Until At Least The 5.11 Kernel
The sixth spin of Intel DG1 discrete graphics card patches have now been sent out for review, amounting to just about 700 lines of new driver code due to building off the existing DG1 work and more broadly the Gen12/Xe support that's been refined in mainline for months. With these patches it would appear the Intel DG1 is then in good shape under Linux but due to the timing is unlikely to be mainlined until a stable kernel release in early 2021.
Intel's Gen12 / Xe Graphics as found in Tiger Lake appears to be in good shape with the latest mainline code (soon to be tested at Phoronix) but for the DG1 discrete graphics card there have been patches lingering.
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Intel Media Driver 2020.3 Released With Gen12 AV1 Decode, Other Improvements
Just in time for the end of the quarter Intel's open-source multimedia team has released the Media Driver 2020.3 package for the Intel graphics accelerated media encode/decode component on Linux platforms.
The Intel Media Decode Driver 2020.3 is notable in that it rounds out the Gen12/Xe support. This support is not only for the Tiger Lake support now beginning to appear in shipping notebooks but also for DG1 and upcoming Rocket Lake and SG1 solutions as well.
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Intel Key Locker Support Added To LLVM - Confirms Presence With Tiger Lake
Last week on the GNU toolchain side was initial work on supporting Intel Key Locker while this week Key Locker support has come to LLVM.
Intel Key Locker is a means of encrypting/decrypting data with an AES key without having access to the raw key. Key Locker relies on converting AES keys into handles that are then used in place of the actual key, until revoked by the system. The goal with this feature is for preventing any rogue attackers from obtaining the actual AES keys on the system.
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today's howtos
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 30th of September 2020 10:24:28 PM Filed under
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How to Manage Users in Ubuntu
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How to install Enso OS 0.4
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What is a Virtual Machine, and Why to Use it?
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How to distinguish between files, links, and cloned files
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How to Install and Use Wget on Linux
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How to Install Let’s Encrypt on CentOS 7 with Nginx
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Fix HDMI monitor not working with Raspberry PI
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Solving QEMU bridge helper “no such device” for virbr0
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A beginner's guide to gawk
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Enabling UEFI Support For KVM Virtual Machines on Manjaro Deepin Edition (“Mikah,” Manjaro 20.1)
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Installing Ubuntu with Two Hard Drives
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Android Leftovers
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 30th of September 2020 08:29:22 PM Filed under
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OnePlus releases kernel sources of the Android 11 update for the OnePlus 8 series
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OnePlus 8T Confirmed to Run on Android 11-based OxygenOS 11; Geekbench Listing Surfaces
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OnePlus 8T confirmed to come with Android 11 and new OxygenOS pre-installed
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Redmi Note 8 MIUI 12 update released in China with Android 10
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Unofficial LineageOS 17.1 brings Android 10 to NVIDIA SHIELD TVs
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Xiaomi Mi Box 3 finally receives its stable Android Pie update
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Xiaomi Mi Box 3 is now receiving Android 9 Pie, just in time for Android 11
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Xiaomi Mi Box 3 gets two-year-old Android 9 Pie update
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Firefox for Android to finally get a few more extensions
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Firefox for Android brings back general extensions support, here's how to set it up
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Mozilla brings back general extension support in Firefox for Android (Nightly)
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How to Use a Virtual Background in Zoom for Android
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How To Recover Data From Android Phone With Cracked/Broken Display
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Getac ZX70 G2, hands on: Platform upgrades for a tough Android tablet Review
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Google’s Pixel 4a is the ideal Android phone for people on a budget
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Google reverts crippling Android app scaling bug affecting the Chrome OS Beta and Dev channel
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Improved Google Photos editor is rolling out now on Android
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DuckDuckGo attacks Google's Android auction for stopping users easily making it their default search engine
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Snag a Sony 4K HDR Android TV for up to $200 off from Amazon and Best Buy
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Best Game Streaming Apps for Android 2020
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8 Android Features To Increase Your Smartphone Security
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Benchmarking Firefox 83 Nightly With "Warp" Against Google Chrome On Linux
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 30th of September 2020 08:15:41 PM Filed under
Following last week's news of Firefox Nightly flipping on their new JIT "Warp" update I was eager to run fresh benchmarks of the current Firefox releases compared to Google Chrome under Ubuntu Linux.
Warp was enabled last week for Firefox 83 nightly builds with this "Warp" just-in-time JavaScript compiler update having various improvements in an effort to provide greater responsiveness and faster page load speeds. Numbers cited by Mozilla engineers on their JavaScript/SpiderMonkey team were frequently in the 5~15% range. Even instances like Google Docs load times on Windows was around 20% faster with Warp.
This round of benchmarking was done with Firefox 81, Firefox 82 Beta 3, and Firefox 83 Alpha 1 nightly as of last week after Warp landed. A secondary run of Firefox 83 nightly was also done with WebRender force enabled on Linux. Plus Google Chrome 85 was also tested as the latest stable release.
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Linux-driven COM duo tap i.MX8M Plus
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 30th of September 2020 08:13:29 PM Filed under
TechNexion’s rugged “EDM-G-IMX8M-PLUS” and “AXON-E-IMX8M-PLUS” modules run Linux on NXP’s 2.3 TOPS i.MX8M Plus with up to 8GB LPDDR4, 16GB eMMC, WiFi/BT, and starter kits. There are also new i.MX8M Mini and Nano EDM modules.
TechNexion has posted product pages for two compute modules that feature NXP’s i.MX8M Plus. The EDM-G-IMX8M-PLUS is essentially the same as the wireless enabled Wandboard IMX8M-Plus-4G module option on the sandwich-style Wandboard IMX8M-Plus SBC announced in August. However, it offers up to 8GB LPDDR4 instead of 4GB. The AXON-E-IMX8M-PLUS provides essentially the same capabilities but in TechNexion’s more rugged, 58 x 37mm AXON form-factor, which was used on the i.MX8M Mini-based AXON-IMX8M-Mini module.
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Red Hat Satellite 6.7.4 has been released
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 30th of September 2020 07:10:14 PM Filed under
We are pleased to announce that Red Hat Satellite 6.7. is generally available as of September 30, 2020.
Red Hat Satellite is part of the Red Hat Smart Management subscription that makes it easier for enterprises to manage patching, provisioning, and subscription management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux infrastructure.
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Tails 4.11 Anonymous OS Released with Tor Browser 10, Extended Persistent Storage
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Wednesday 30th of September 2020 04:35:40 PM Filed under
The biggest news in Tails 4.11 is the fact that it comes with the latest Tor Browser 10 anonymous web browser preinstalled, which is based on the newest Mozilla Firefox 78.3 ESR (Extended Support Release) series and includes Tor 0.4.4.5, Tor Launcher 0.2.25, and NoScript 11.0.44.
On top of that, Tails 4.11 updates the Mozilla Thunderbird email client to version 68.12 and extends the Persistent Storage feature to also save the keyboard, language, and other settings from the Welcome Screen. Users will be able to restore these settings when they reinstall Tails, but only after upgrading to version 4.11.
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Nvidia Graphics News
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 30th of September 2020 03:57:14 PM Filed under
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AMD FreeSync on a Nvidia GPU?
It may be a familiar story for a lot of office workers no matter where you live in 2020. Out of the blue, COVID19 showed up, and suddenly working remotely is the new norm – your company either allowing it or encouraging it. I am also in this situation, stuck for about 6 months at home, more or less. And with all changes, there’s positive and negative aspects. In my case, I have lost a comfortable setup in my workplace (multiple monitors, high resolution).
In order to make the best of working from home, I have purchased an ultra-wide monitor, which happens to be FreeSync compatible as well. But would it actually work on Linux? Especially on a non-AMD GPU configuration?
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NVIDIA Sends Out Latest Linux Kernel Patches For 1GB THP To Help Boost Performance
NVIDIA software engineer Zi Yan sent out on Monday his latest "1GB PUD THP" patches in aiming to boost application performance on Linux for software making use of large amounts of RAM.
This 1GB transparent hugepage support for Linux x86_64 is designed to reduce translation overhead and allow for greater application performance for software with large memory footprints without needing any application changes. NVIDIA's motivation for this work is on the performance front with aiming to boost virtual memory performance via gigantic TLB entries without needing additional changes as imposed by HUGETLBFS pages. The PUD THP support would be disabled by default but can be toggled via sysfs under /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/.
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NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Moves To 455 Series For Linux
NVIDIA's Linux Vulkan beta driver build has moved from the 450 series that it's been on for a while to the current 455 branch.
Earlier this month NVIDIA shipped the 455.23.04 Linux beta driver for RTX 30 series support being most notable for the R455 series. But there are also various other underlying improvements too in the jump from 450 to 455 like a new VkMemoryType that will help out some games, numerous fixes, support for the NGX Updater, and VDPAU additions.
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NVIDIA adds Ampere support to their Vulkan Beta Driver with a new release
NVIDIA have pushed out a fresh update to their developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver series, here's the highlights and what's changed.
For starters it's now been rebased on top of their mainline 455 driver branch, which brings with it Ampere 30xx series support. So for anyone truly needing this series for all the brand-new Vulkan extensions and other Beta features, you should be good to go.
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Games: OBS Studio, Arcane Fortune, American Truck Simulator - Colorado and More
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 30th of September 2020 03:38:06 PM Filed under
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OBS Studio adds in better noise suppression thanks to RNNoise in the 26.0 release out now
Free and open source video recording and live streaming software OBS Studio version 26.0 is out now.
Pretty much all you need to get going with video content, OBS Studio being cross-platform and open source opened up a lot of options for Linux users when it arrived a few years ago. It's been great to see it flourish.
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PC Gaming Setups for Windows and Linux
What is the perfect setup for PC Gaming on the software side? Windows? Linux? or Both? Let's explore all the possibilities.
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Grand strategy empire builder 'Arcane Fortune' has a new release and it went open source
Arcane Fortune is a game we briefly highlighted at the start of August as one that is inspired by the likes of Civilization, SimCity and Dwarf Fortress and it's getting bigger again.
Quite an interesting experience already, with a lot of features and gameplay already there. You can even play it directly in your terminal - if you wish. However, it does also have a "proper" version that uses SDL2 with mouse support. With a new release that went up on September 27, not only has it pulled in new features, it's also now properly open source. The original release was under a creative commons license but now they've moved the code over to the AGPL.
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Get an early look at the Million Dollar Highway in American Truck Simulator - Colorado
SCS Software will be launching the American Truck Simulator - Colorado DLC at some point and while work goes on they've released a new teaser.
Here's one for you truckers, as Colorado has what some say is one of the most beautiful roads in America with the 'Million Dollar Highway' and it's going to be featured in the DLC. A pretty long stretch of road that runs from Bernalillo, New Mexico to Montrose, Colorado in the western United States. Sounds like the perfect place to go for a drive.
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Episodic horror novel Scarlet Hollow sees a free first episode, Kickstarter soon for more
Black Tabby Games recently released the first episode of Scarlet Hollow, a horror visual novel and choice-driven adventure game set in the mountains of Appalachia. After the initial release, they put up a Linux version too!
It's made by the award-winning graphic novelist Abby Howard whose previously works include the comics of 2013: The Last Halloween, Junior Scientist Power Hour and The Last Halloween - all of which had very successful Kickstarter campaigns. Scarlet Hollow will have hand-drawn backgrounds mixed with animated sprites together with a "complex relationship system to bring to life an immersive world of charming (and terrifying) characters".
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Great news for Transport Fever 2 fans as Vulkan support is coming
Transport Fever 2 is a much loved transport sim released with same-day Linux support in December 2019, and it's only going to keep getting better.
Gathering over seven thousand user reviews it has a Very Positive rating on Steam, so it's clear that this second edition from Urban Games and Good Shepherd Entertainment has hit the mark. It has a lot of features, quite a lot of content and graphically it looks pretty good too.
However, it has just like the first game suffered some performance problems. They're aware, they've done a few updates to fix parts but more is needed. What's exciting here is that they announced in a post about upcoming macOS support that Linux and Windows will be getting an upgrade with Vulkan!
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A bit like Stardew in space, One Lonely Outpost is fully funded and on the way to Linux
Space, sci-fi and farming - what more could you want? One Lonely Outpost is like Stardew Valley for fans who want something a little bit more out there.
The Kickstarter campaign which is now over ended on $123,195 pledged so there's clearly a lot of interest and that was way more than their $80,000 initial goal. Linux support is confirmed, and is listed very clearly for it too.
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today's howtos
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 30th of September 2020 03:34:36 PM Filed under
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How to Install Arch Linux 2020.09 + MATE Desktop + Apps + VMware Tools on VMware Workstation
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Install ISPConfig 3 - Roundcube plugins on Debian 10
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How to Install Android-x86 9.0 R2 (Android 9 Pie on PC) on VMware Workstation
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Use Node Affinity in Kubernetes
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UNIX / Linux PGP TarBall File Signature Keys Verification
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How to Install and Use Terraform on CentOS 8
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How to restart a service via systemctl under Linux
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How to use syslog-ng with LaaS and why?
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How to install the Inverse icon theme on Linux
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How to install Subsonic free music server on Ubuntu 20.04 linux
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How to Make Bash Script Executable Using Chmod
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How to Install LibreOffice 7.0 on Ubuntu 20.04
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How To Set Up a Firewall with Awall on Alpine Linux
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How To Remove Files and Directories on Linux Terminal
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How To Install Kubuntu 20.04 LTS + Dualboot + UEFI + External Drive
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