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Cpufreq_ext Being Worked On For BPF-Based CPU Frequency Scaling

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2024 - 19:49
The newly-merged sched_ext allows for the Linux kernel scheduler to be made more extensible by allowing BPF programs to be loaded to affect the kernel's scheduling behavior. There's now a similar take on CPU frequency scaling: cpufreq_ext. There's a "request for comments" patch series on cpufreq_ext for making extensible CPU frequency scaling algorithm adaptations with BPF...

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Excited Linux Users The Most In Q3

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2024 - 18:44
With the third quarter drawing to a close, here's a look back at the most popular Linux/open-source related content for the quarter. This quarter there's been more than 730 news articles and 50 Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles all written by your's truly covering a range of areas...

FFmpeg 7.1 Released With VVC Decoder Promoted To Stable, Vulkan H.264/H.265 Encode

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2024 - 18:34
FFmpeg 7.1 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. With FFmpeg 7.1 the VVC video decoder has been promoted to stable, there are a number of Vulkan Video improvements, and an assortment of other exciting enhancements...

Sway 1.10-rc1 Adds GPU Reset Recovery, New Wayland Protocols

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2024 - 18:25
Open-source developer Simon Ser has released Sway 1.10-rc1 as the newest feature release to this i3-inspired Wayland compositor. With Sway 1.10 there are many new features coming...

AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 Brings New Performance Optimizations & Pipeline Binaries

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2024 - 18:08
AMD today released AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 as their latest open-source Vulkan API driver for Linux systems prior to ending the quarter...

How to Limit SSH Connections to Local Network on Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 09/30/2024 - 14:13
The post How to Limit SSH Connections to Local Network on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

SSH (Secure Shell) is a popular tool that allows users to connect to remote systems securely over a network. By

The post How to Limit SSH Connections to Local Network on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux 6.12-rc1 Released With QR Code Panic Messages, PREEMPT_RT & Sched_ext

Phoronix - Mon, 09/30/2024 - 06:25
As expected the Linux 6.12-rc1 kernel is out today in marking the end of the very exciting two-week Linux 6.12 merge window that saw many high profile features land...

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