Matrix is an open standard for decentralized and end-to-end encrypted communication. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and create a chat server using Synapse.
The post How to Install & Create a Chat Server Using Matrix Synapse & Element on Debian 12 appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – How to Install & Create a Chat Server Using Matrix Synapse & Element on Debian 12
In addition to old and unmaintained Ethernet driver code set for removal, there is an effort underway to clear out some obsolete and orphaned WiFi drivers from the Linux kernel…
Source: Phoronix – Linux’s Latest Plan For Removing Old WiFi Drivers
For this instalment in the series, we’re going to examine the power consumption of the NUC 13 Pro Mini PC and compare that to a couple of desktop machines.
Source: LXer – Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption
In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to install InfluxDB on Ubuntu 22.04. InfluxDB is an open-source database with high read and write speed developed by InfluxData.
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Source: Linux Today – How to Install InfluxDB on Ubuntu 22.04
Canonical continues investing in Mir as their Wayland compositor and set of platform abstraction interfaces to make it easier for IoT and other “smart” devices to run atop Ubuntu Core. Most recently the Mir developers have been working to partially re-architect their graphics platform handling to better handle multiple GPU/display devices…
Source: Phoronix – Ubuntu’s Mir Working On Hybrid Graphics / Multi-GPU Support
Ahead of the official planned announcement for Tuesday, the Mozilla Firefox 119.0 release binaries have been published for this monthly feature update…
Source: Phoronix – Firefox 119 Available With Improved Firefox View, Expanded PDF Editing
Scheduled for an official launch on October 24th, the Mozilla Firefox 119 open-source web browser is now available for download, and it’s time to take a first look at its new features and improvements.
The post Mozilla Firefox 119 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – Mozilla Firefox 119 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
While the recently released Ubuntu 23.10 is bringing some performance improvements to Intel Xeon Max / Sapphire Rapids, Ubuntu Linux still isn’t delivering the best possible out-of-the-box server performance. For that Intel continues to show the importance of software optimizations with the likes of their in-house Clear Linux platform as well as the likes of CentOS Stream having more sensible defaults. Here is a look at the Intel Xeon Max 9480 performance across Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 23.10, CentOS Stream 9, Fedora Server 39, and Clear Linux 40130.
Source: Phoronix – Intel Continues To Demonstrate The Importance Of Software Optimizations: Clear Linux + Xeon Max Benchmarks
Recent developments in artificial intelligence are changing how the world sees computing and challenging computing educators to rethink their approach to teaching. In the brand-new issue of Hello World, out today for free, we tackle some big questions about AI and computing education. We also get practical with resources for your classroom.
In their articles for issue 22, educators explore a range of topics related to teaching and AI, including what is AI literacy and how do we teach it; gender bias in AI and what we can do about it; how to speak to young children about AI; and why anthropomorphism hinders learners’ understanding of AI.
Our feature articles also include a research digest on AI ethics for children, and of course hands-on examples of AI lessons for your learners.
Hello World issue 22 is a comprehensive snapshot of the current landscape of AI education. Ben Garside, Learning Manager for our Experience AI programme and guest editor of this issue, says:
“When I was teaching in the classroom, I used to enjoy getting to grips with new technological advances and finding ways in which I could bring them into school and excite the students I taught. Occasionally, during the busiest of times, I’d also look longingly at other subjects and be jealous that their curriculum appeared to be more static than ours (probably a huge misconception on my behalf).”
It’s inspiring for me to see how the education community is reacting to the opportunities that AI can provide.
Ben Garside
“It’s inspiring for me to see how the education community is reacting to the opportunities that AI can provide. Of course, there are elements of AI where we need to tread carefully and be very cautious in our approach, but what you’ll see in this magazine is educators who are thinking creatively in this space.”
AI is a topic we’ve addressed before in Hello World, and we’ll keep covering this rapidly evolving area in future. We hope this issue gives you plenty of ideas to take away and build upon.
Also in issue 22:
You can download your free PDF issue now, or purchase a print copy from our store. UK-based subscribers for a free print edition can expect their copies to arrive in the mail this week.
Send us a message or tag us on social media to let us know which articles have made you think and, most importantly, which will help you with your teaching.
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Source: Raspberry Pi – Hello World #22 out now: Teaching and AI
qBittorrent 4.6 comes almost a year after the qBittorrent 4.5 series and introduces experimental BitTorrent over I2P (Invisible Internet Protocol) support for encrypted and anonymized torrenting. I2P addressing uses a destination rather than an IP and port.
The post qBittorrent 4.6 Released with Initial I2P Support, Torrent Tags Editing & More appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – qBittorrent 4.6 Released with Initial I2P Support, Torrent Tags Editing & More
It is probably fair to say that most Linux users spend little time thinking
about the troff typesetting program, despite that application’s
groundbreaking role in computing history. Troff (along with nroff) is
still with us, though, even if they are called groff these days, and every
now and then they make their presence known. A recent groff change created
a bit of a tempest within the Debian community, and has effectively been
reverted there. It all comes down to the question of what, exactly, is the
character used to mark command-line options on Unix systems?
Source: LWN.net – [$] Hyphens, minus, and dashes in Debian man pages
The latest PeaZip 9.5 archiver unveils heightened performance, a faster mode for archive browsing, and polished file manager functionalities.
The post PeaZip 9.5 File Archiver Brings UI & Performance Improvements appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – PeaZip 9.5 File Archiver Brings UI & Performance Improvements
While most hardware vendors are relying on LLVM when it comes to offloading compute work to GPUs, AI accelerators, FPGAs, and similar heterogeneous compute environments, right now each vendor is basically creating their own LLVM offloading run-time among a lot of other duplicated — and often downstream only — code. The new “llvm/offload” project hopes to lead to better collaboration in this area…
Source: Phoronix – LLVM Looking To Better Collaborate Around Common AI/GPU/FPGA Offloading
Following an FCV optimization for the latest Intel graphics hardware, ASTC LDR emulation, some still-pending Vulkan sparse support for ANV atop the existing i915 driver, and other recent Intel open-source “ANV” Vulkan driver optimizations, another optimization was just merged into Mesa 23.3…
Source: Phoronix – Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Optimization To Help GravityMark, Other Demanding Software
The Etnaviv Gallium3D driver within Mesa has long been focused on reverse engineering and supporting Vivante graphics IP found in various SoCs. That driver has worked out well for open-source OpenGL support for Vivante graphics while more recently Etnaviv has begun tackling Vivante neural processing unit (NPU) support that is beginning to be found in various SoCs…
Source: Phoronix – Etnaviv NPU Support Coming Together, Mesa Upstreaming Next
SB Components has launched a low cost and high quality audio expansion board compatible with the open-source Raspberry Pi Pico. The device provides multiple audio outputs, a small display and a microSD card for convenient storage. The Pico Audio Expansion board provides female headers to accommodate the low-cost Raspberry Pi Pico. Additionally, it provides two […]
Source: LXer – MusicPi audio expansion boards for Raspberry Pi Pico
After the Raspberry Pi 5 was excitingly announced a few weeks ago, Eben Upton shared today that ramping up the production has gone better than initially anticipated and that these AArch64 single board computers are beginning to ship to customers…
Source: Phoronix – Raspberry Pi 5 Single Board Computers Begin Shipping
Discover the lightweight yet powerful open-source Geany text editor alternative to Notepad++ on Linux with an installation guide and a few tips and tricks.
Source: LXer – How to Install and Enable Dark Theme in Geany IDE on Linux
A comparative study of two prominent Linux desktop environments, KDE and GNOME to assist you in making an informed choice.
Source: LXer – KDE vs. GNOME: Choosing the Perfect Linux Desktop Experience
Linus has released 6.6-rc7 for testing.
Anyway, while this is all bigger than I’d have liked it to be, if
the upcoming week is quiet and normal, this is the last rc and next
Sunday will see the final release and then we’ll open the merge
window for 6.7. I simply am not aware of any issues that would be
showstoppers.
Source: LWN.net – Kernel prepatch 6.6-rc7