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Sourceware Looking To Expand Services, Diversify Partners

Phoronix - Mon, 08/07/2023 - 21:30
Sourceware.org that provides the open-source hosting for projects like GCC, Cygwin, and more had long been sponsored by Red Hat and a rather opaque organization. Earlier this year SourceWare.org became part of the Software Freedom Conservancy. In addition to now calling the SFC home, they are planning other changes ahead to expand their hosting services, diversifying hardware and software partners, and other changes...

AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 Released With Phoenix APU Support, Performance Tuning

Phoronix - Mon, 08/07/2023 - 20:46
AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 is out this morning as the first update to AMD's official open-source Radeon Vulkan Linux driver since mid-June...

Linux 6.6 Will Be Able To Handle Temperature Reporting When Having More Than 32 DIMMs

Phoronix - Mon, 08/07/2023 - 18:37
The Linux kernel's "dimmtemp" driver allows for reporting memory temperatures with capable memory modules and when exposed by the Intel processor's PECI (Platform Environment Control Interface). Currently though the DIMM temperature driver is hard-coded to only allow reporting up to 32 DIMMs while a change queued for Linux 6.6 will extend that limit...

GNOME 45's Mutter Implements A Dedicated KMS Thread

Phoronix - Mon, 08/07/2023 - 18:10
Recently merged to GNOME's Mutter compositor development code is implementing a dedicated kernel mode-setting (KMS) thread and allows for pointer motions to bypass the main thread during cursor sprite movements. Ultimately this effort is around lower-latency cursor movements...

How to Create Disk Storage with Logical Volume Management (LVM) in Linux – PART 1

Tecmint - Mon, 08/07/2023 - 17:03
The post How to Create Disk Storage with Logical Volume Management (LVM) in Linux – PART 1 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Logical Volume Management (LVM) is a powerful tool that greatly simplifies disk space management. With LVM, the task of allocating additional space to a file

The post How to Create Disk Storage with Logical Volume Management (LVM) in Linux – PART 1 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Google's BBRv3 TCP Congestion Control Showing Great Results, Will Be Upstreamed To Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 08/07/2023 - 12:00
Google's open-source BBR TCP congestion control algorithm is widely used within Google and its v3 iteration is already proving a success within the company and they are working toward upstreaming BBRv3 into the mainline Linux kernel...

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