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Rust For Linux Kernel v9 Patches Trim Things Down Greatly For Easier Upstreaming  Phoronix

How to connect to Linux Samba shares from Windows  News Update

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U: ACPI Platform Profile Low-Power vs. Balanced vs. Performance Review  Phoronix

Despite Alder Lake optimization, Windows 11 struggles to stay ahead of Ubuntu / Linux  Neowin

As with many new Intel/AMD laptops these days, the recently launched Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen3 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U "Rembrandt" SoC boasts ACPI Platform Profile support that is exposed under Linux for switching between low-power, balanced (default), and performance modes. For those curious about this ACPI Platform Profile impact, here are some benchmarks from this 6850U laptop under Ubuntu Linux and its impact on power and thermal efficiency too.

GwisinLocker Ransomware Targets Linux Systems in South Korea  Infosecurity Magazine

Following the release of GNU Glibc 2.36 earlier this week, GNU Binutils 2.39 released today for this common set of binary utilities on open-source systems...

The Lost Opportunity  Electronics Weekly

Valve spoke to IGN Japan about the Steam Deck, here's a few takeaway points  GamingOnLinux

A Wild Metadata Cleaner for Linux Appeared!  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Kernel 5.19 Released With 7 New Features  MUO - MakeUseOf

Dbus-Broker Working On AppArmor Support, Opening The Door For Possible Ubuntu Use  Phoronix

Dbus-Broker as a drop-in replacement for the reference D-Bus implementation while focused on better performance and reliability is out with a new version. Notable with this new Dbus-Broker 32 is the beginnings of AppArmor support that could open the door for Ubuntu Linux switching over to it in the future...

It was just over a year ago Microsoft lifted the lid further on CBL-Mariner as its internal Linux distribution used for a variety of purposes at the company from running within their Azure cloud environment to also finding use by WSL, and various other use-cases. They have continued issuing updates and expanding the capabilities of this enterprise-tasked Linux distribution...

Microsoft Continues Improving Its Internal Linux Distro With Another Update  Phoronix

Earlier this year AMD began posting Linux kernel patches for >a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-4-IBS-Linux">Instruction Based Sampling (IBS) extensions coming with Zen 4 processors. With Linux 5.19 the Zen 4 IBS extensions landed while now with Linux 6.0 the perf tools have been updated for dealing with Zen 4 IBS...

Linux 6.0's Perf Tooling Ready For AMD Zen 4 IBS  Phoronix

The XFS file-system may be getting up there in age but there are no signs of it slowing down but rather the opposite -- continued scalability work and performance optimizations -- as well as tacking on new features. With Linux 6.0, the mature XFS continues to age well. Separately, the EXT4 file-system updates have also landed in Linux 6.0...

XFS Scalability Improvement, Other File-System Enhancements Land In Linux 6.0  Phoronix

AMDVLK 2022.Q3.2 was released by AMD overnight as their newest official open-source Vulkan driver release for Linux systems...