Longtime Linux Kernel Engineer With 14 Years At Intel Is Now At Meta
Facebook's Meta already employs an all-star team of Linux kernel engineers and it doesn't appear that they are over in recruiting top-tier Linux kernel talent. One of Intel's senior Linux software engineers is now the latest high profile kernel developer onboard at Meta...
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Proton 10.0-2 Beta Delivers More Enhancements For Linux Gaming
Proton 10.0-2 beta was released today by Valve and CodeWeavers for furthering this Wine-derived software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux with great success...
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Discover how to print command line arguments in a Bash script on Linux. Learn multiple methods like loops, arrays, and more.Luke Reynolds (LinuxConfig)
: 5 V-tolerant GPIO opens the way to some intriguing retro-nerderyRichard Speed (The Register)
Linux 6.17 Staging Continues Cleaning The Realtek RTL8723BS Driver
The staging area of the Linux kernel, where preliminary code initially appears to mature until being promoted out, continues seeing a lot of code churn. With Linux 6.17 the staging updates were submitted and now merged with one driver in particular standing out...
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The CRC32C cyclic redundancy check code path within the Linux kernel for error detection is much, much faster with the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel when running on modern Intel and AMD AVX-512 processors.lxer.com
Xtraceroute Ported To GTK4 + Vulkan For Demonstrating The Open-Source Potential For AI
Christian Schaller, a Fedora developer and Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat, recently began exploring the potential of AI usage more from the open-source/Linux perspective. He was left impressed from his ability to easily generate a Python application for internal Red Hat use to porting the venerable Xtraceroute program to GTK4 and Vulkan...
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xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 Released With Two Years Worth Of Fixes
It had been two years since the last update to the AMDGPU X.Org DDX driver but now xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 is now available for those relying on this driver/hardware-specific driver for X.Org enabled Linux systems rather than the xf86-video-modesetting generic driver or a Wayland-based desktop...
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DietPi 9.15, a Debian-based Linux distro for SBCs, lands with Debian 13 upgrade support, Orange Pi 3 non-LTS images, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
For those shopping for a Linux friendly laptop powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series 'Strix Point' with Zen 5 cores and integrated Radeon graphics plus allowing up to 128GB of RAM, the 15.3-inch InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 was announced this morning.lxer.com
AMD Streaming SDK Updated With Linux Support - But Recommending X.Org Over Wayland
AMD's GPUOpen group today released the AMD Interactive Streaking SDK 1.1 release that now delivers Linux support alongside the existing Microsoft Windows support. The AMD Interactive Streaming SDK is designed to provide pieces for developers to build-out low-latency streaming solutions for cloud gaming, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and embedded appli…
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I assume Wayland's higher latency is part responsible for this?
(So many X11 critics live in 1991 and think it still requires everything local be transmitted over a network socket.)
OBS Studio 31.1.2 patches a bug on Linux that caused Video Capture Devices to stop working unexpectedly.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Farewell Benchmarks Of Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Shows More Performance Left To Tap
Last week I ran the last planned benchmarks of Intel CPU performance on Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu with Intel having ceased development of Clear Linux following the restructuring at the company. In today's article is a final look at how the AMD EPYC performance compares on Clear Linux relative to Ubuntu Linux and AlmaLinux. An AMD EPYC 9965 "Turin" dua…
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Discover the multiple ways to execute JavaScript code or files with basic to advanced functionality in the Python program with practical examples.Linux TLDR
Linux 6.17 Lands New file_getattr & file_setattr System Calls
Along with the better handling of multi-device file-systems such as Btrfs' native RAID capabilities and now allowing more efficient writing of zeroes to modern storage devices, the number of VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 also added some other extra goodies...
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A 10x Workaround & Less Network Egress Downtime Change Submitted For Linux 6.17
The kernel locking changes submitted today for Linux 6.17 contain a temporary change worth discussion for yielding a 10x speed-up of a particular function call and as part of that yielding less network egress downtime until a better solution is developed...
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The kernel locking changes submitted today for Linux 6.17 contain a temporary change worth discussion for yielding a 10x speed-up of a particular function call and as part of that yielding less network egress downtime until a better solution is devel…www.phoronix.com
Discover a step-by-step guide to check if your Linux system is running on Systemd or some other init system with practical examples.Ubuntu Shell
While the Broadcom V3D driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the graphics found on recent Raspberry Pi boards, currently it doesn't support run-time power managementlxer.com
TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Strix Point
For those shopping for a Linux friendly laptop powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" with Zen 5 cores and integrated Radeon graphics plus allowing up to 128GB of RAM, the 15.3-inch InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 was announced this morning...
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For those shopping for a Linux friendly laptop powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series 'Strix Point' with Zen 5 cores and integrated Radeon graphics plus allowing up to 128GB of RAM, the 15.3-inch InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 was announced this morning.www.phoronix.com
Huge Speedups For CRC32C With Modern AVX-512 CPUs Merged To Linux 6.17
The CRC32C cyclic redundancy check code path within the Linux kernel for error detection is much, much faster with the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel when running on modern Intel and AMD AVX-512 processors...
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Linux 6.17 Will Allow Writing Zeroes More Efficiently To SSDs
In addition to the VFS changes merrged yesterday for allowing multi-device file-systems to better cope with losing a disk, another notable change as part of the VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 allows more efficiently zeroing out a range on modern NVMe SSDs or SCSI drives...
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GNU Linux-Libre 6.16 kernel is now available for download based on Linux 6.16 and targeted at those who seek 100% freedom for their PCs.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Invitation to Test week for Anaconda installer and DNF 5Sumantro Mukherjee (Fedora Project)
All of the following are fake articles attributed to pseudonyms or authors that don't exist; the images are also slop. Why does Google promote these?Roy Schestowitz
: Investigators detail persistent background connections and file transmissions despite telemetry opt-outTim Anderson (The Register)
Following yesterday's release of GNU Binutils 2.45, the GNU C Library 2.42 released today.lxer.com
Linux 6.17 Will Let Multi-Device Filesystems Better Cope With Losing A Disk
The VFS changes were merged a short time ago to the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel. Among the notable changes there is a patch that will allow file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs to better handle losing a disk in their built-in RAID/multi-device capabilities...
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Audacious 4.5 open-source media player arrives with new Playback History plugin, Winamp 2.9 skin, improved PipeWire output plugin, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Linux kernel 6.16 is now available for download with new features, enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, and much more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
GNU C Library 2.42 Released With SFrame Support, Newer Intel CPU Detection
Following yesterday's release of GNU Binutils 2.45, the GNU C Library 2.42 released today...
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The CM5 MINIMA is a compact carrier board built for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, developed in collaboration with Seeed Studio and Pierluigi Colangeli.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Love trying new Linux distros? Small projects can be fun to explore—but they may come with hidden risks. Here's what most people don't talk about.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Launches Subscription Service For "Premium Desktop Experience"
The Hyprland Wayland compositor that is popular with some Linux enthusiasts today formally announced Hyprperks, its new paid subscription service offering a "premium desktop experience" and other benefits...
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The Hyprland Wayland compositor that is popular with some Linux enthusiasts today formally announced Hyprperks, its new paid subscription service offering a 'premium desktop experience' and other benefits.www.phoronix.com
This concise guide covers how to effectively create, monitor, and manage Kubernetes pods.Christopher Tozzi (ITPro Today)
Linux 6.17 Preps Many Networking Changes From Broadcom 800G To More WiFi 7
Jakub Kicinski on Sunday sent out the big set of networking subsystem updates heading into the Linux 6.17 kernel. From high-end enterprise and data center hardware down to consumer Ethernet and WiFi devices, the Linux networking space continues to be as busy as ever...
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Linux kernel 6.16 introduces comprehensive AMD SEV vTPM support, enhancing virtual machine security and confidential computing capabilities with hardware-backed attestation and secure boot verification.Lucas Rees (LinuxConfig)
Bcachefs To Remove Its Experimental Label In Linux 6.18 - If It's Still In The Kernel
With the Linux 6.17 merge window now open, Bcachefs file-system lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted his planned changes for this next kernel version. But we await to see how Linus Torvalds will respond...
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Linux 6.16's New "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option Enhances I/O & Some Graphics/Gaming Workloads
With the newly-released Linux 6.16 kernel there is the new X86_NATIVE_CPU build option if wanting to optimize your kernel build for your local CPU in use. Enabling CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU is setting the "-march=native" compiler optimizations for the kernel build in an effort to ensure peak performance/optimizations for the local system. Here are some ben…
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