Fedora's Kernel Build Now Enabling Sched_Ext Support

Now that sched_ext was upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel as part of the many great features in Linux 6.12, Fedora's kernel builds are prepared to enable this innovative scheduler feature that allows for new scheduling policies to be loaded via (e)BPF programs...
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Bangkok Raindar Update3/10/2567 17:43:16
วันที่ 3 ตุลาคม 2567 เวลา 17.30 น. / กทม.ฝนเล็กน้อย-ปานกลางเขตหลักสี่ และบางกะปิ ประเวศ สะพานสูง มีนบุรี ลาดกระบัง เคลื่อนตัวทิศตะวันตกเฉียงเหนือ ปริมาณฝนสูงสุดเขตบางซื่อ 27.0 มม.

Left: Current Observation
Right: 3 hour forecast

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Google Updates Patches For AutoFDO+Propeller Optimized Linux Kernel

Google engineers have been working on support for the Linux kernel to leverage AutoFDO feedback directed optimizations and Propeller optimizations when compiling the Linux kernel with LLVM/Clang. In turn this can help Linux systems see 2~10% better performance thanks to the more optimized kernel...
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Giga Computing Announces GA On Their AmpereOne Servers

After years of AmpereComputing talking about AmpereOne AArch64 server processors, it looks like we are finally on the cusp of seeing broader availability of the processors and servers/motherboards for this ARM server platform up to 192 cores. At the end of August I finally received a temporary review system with the AmpereOne A192-32X flagship SKU. That server was the Supermicro…
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Speech Note – An Offline Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech and Translation App for Linux lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux 6.13 To Bring Big/Super Pages For The Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver - Better Performance lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux 6.12 Drops New Driver That Ended Up Breaking Laptop Touchpad Support For Many Users

If you have been trying out Linux 6.12-rc1 or a recent Linux Git snapshot and discovered your laptop's touchpad is no longer working, you are far from alone. The good news is the issue has been quickly tracked down and has led to a new input driver being reverted...
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Some Intel Linux Driver Maintainers Have Left The Company

With the recent Intel layoffs and early retirement / buyout packages, I have been curious to see what impact it will have on the open-source/Linux software engineers at the company. There's at least a few driver maintainers that have unfortunately departed the company but at least no major exodus of their well respected Linux software engineers...
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