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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 04, 2023

Updated 'Must-Have' GNOME extensions list

AMD To Enhance “OverDrive” GPU Overclocking Features For Linux Users

↺ AMD To Enhance “OverDrive” GPU Overclocking Features For Linux Users

> AMD Plans to Integrate Several New Controls On OverDrive Overclocking Tool, Allowing Linux Users to Maximize RDNA GPU Performance

> AMD's OverDrive feature has been on Linux for quite some time now, but when it comes to the overclocking capabilities, the feature is much inferior compared to its Windows counterpart. However, the AMD OverDrive might get an upgrade on Linux, given that Team Red is dedicated to improving its resources on the platform.

A New Take on Software Code Security: The Open Source Consumption Manifesto [Ed: IBM+GAFAM trying to control what Free software you are using]

↺ A New Take on Software Code Security: The Open Source Consumption Manifesto

> Open source is a blessing. It's also a curse when we don't take its security seriously. Now, the OpenSSF wants us all to take a long, hard look at how we consume and secure open-source software.

> Decades ago, Eric S. Raymond, one of open-source's founders, famously coined Linus's Law: "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." Makes you feel warm and fuzzy about open-source security, doesn't it? There's a corollary, though. For Linus's Law to work, you need expert eyeballs hunting and hands fixing bugs. Recently, we've been forced to realize we've been flopping at enforcing the law. The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), with its new working group proclamation, the Open Source Consumption Manifesto (OSCM), wants to prosecute it.

Follow the cloud money [Ed: Almost all the articles in this site are nowadays by Mac Asay because his employer at the time paid the site to do this; that's just utterly ridiculous. 75% of the latest InfoWorld articles are Asay and they disclosed that his pieces were sponsored by his employer, so IDG was basically selling site space. To the "Proprietary Cartel" profiteers (those with the cabal of monopolies), Open Source "winning" just means being consumed or hijacked by them.]

↺ Follow the cloud money

> However, rather than kick OpenELA for being a tired resurrection of UnitedLinux, it’s worth looking deeper into when collective open source efforts do work. Why will OpenELA fail but Kubernetes didn’t? What about OpenTF, an effort to reverse HashiCorp’s decision to change its license for Terraform to the Business Software License (BSL)? The key in each case is to follow the money, especially the cloud money.

Restoring A 45 Year Old Video Game

↺ Restoring A 45 Year Old Video Game

> When we say vintage video game, some of you may think of the likes of Lemmings, Mario or maybe even Donkey Kong but the game that [Vintage Apparatus] restored is slightly older and much more minimalist, using an LED matrix and some 7-segment displays rather than this newfangled color CRT thing.

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