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Linux 6.5 Bringing Sensor Monitoring To Many More Desktop Motherboards

Phoronix - Mon, 07/10/2023 - 23:23
Among the many interesting changes that landed the past two weeks for the Linux 6.5 merge window, the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates as a whole standout for bringing numerous desktop motherboards and other devices to now enjoy working sensor monitoring support under Linux...

AMD Revises WiFi RFI Mitigation Feature For Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 07/10/2023 - 22:48
Besides Bcachefs missing out on Linux 6.5, another patch series that didn't get buttoned up in time for the v6.5 merge window was AMD's work on radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation between WiFi 6/6e/7 hardware and AMD's newest SoCs with RDNA3 graphics...

Ubuntu Revisiting Its Initramfs Compression Approach

Phoronix - Mon, 07/10/2023 - 22:17
About a year ago Ubunty changed its default compression level for its initramfs handling down to Zstd level one to deal with slow initramfs creation times on low-end systems / development boards. But since then that has resulted in larger initramfs sizes and yielding other bugs like more quickly filling up the /boot partition on Ubuntu systems. Thus the developers have gone back to the drawing board and are trying to figure out a path forward for better initramfs handling that works well for low-end single board computers while also maximizing space savings and working out well for all Ubuntu use-cases...

Google Revises New Driver For Stadia Controller Rumble Support On Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 07/10/2023 - 18:56
While Google shutdown their Stadia game streaming service, with updated firmware there is Bluetooth (BLE) support for the controller as well as USB wired connectivity for those wishing to continue using this gaming controller. Google engineers have also been working on a new Linux driver for enabling force feedback "rumble" support with this controller...

Work Continues For Supporting Intel Sapphire Rapids C0.x Idle States On Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 07/10/2023 - 18:27
While Intel's Linux engineers were very timely in enabling much of the Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" support for the upstream Linux kernel well ahead of the processor launch at the beginning of the year, one patch series that has continued on post-launch has been working to get the new C0.x idle states supported...

8 Parted Commands to Manage Disk Partitions in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 07/10/2023 - 17:31
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Parted is a renowned command-line utility designed to facilitate the management of hard disk partitions in a user-friendly manner. With Parted, you can effortlessly perform

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