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Linux 6.5 To Boast Improved Handling For Intel Hybrid CPUs With Hyper Threading

Phoronix - Wed, 05/10/2023 - 22:36
Going back to last August were Intel patches to help Intel hybrid CPU handling on Linux by avoiding unnecessary task migrations within SMT domains. Coming this summer those Intel patches are finally set to arrive with the Linux 6.5 kernel cycle...

Lighttpd 1.4.70 Adds Native Windows Build Support, Faster CGI Spawning

Phoronix - Wed, 05/10/2023 - 22:09
A new version of Lighttpd is out today, the BSD-licensed, open-source web server that focuses on being very speedy and lightweight on CPU and memory resources...

Failing A PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD In Less Than 3 Minutes Without Extra Cooling

Phoronix - Wed, 05/10/2023 - 20:09
Following the Corsair MP700 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD review under Linux with many readers being surprised by file-system errors when not adding extra cooling like the motherboard's passive M.2 heatsink and being curious about the situation myself, here are more tests of ultimately how this drive will reliably hit file-system errors in three minutes or less without added cooling...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Enables GPL By Default While Hiding Mesh Shaders

Phoronix - Wed, 05/10/2023 - 18:18
Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver within Mesa is now enabling graphics pipeline libraries (GPL) functionality by default but at the same time has demoted their Vulkan mesh shader functionality to being hidden behind an environment variable until some unexplained hangs can be sorted out...

8 Cut Command Examples [Cut Sections of Line in File]

Tecmint - Wed, 05/10/2023 - 18:14
The post 8 Cut Command Examples [Cut Sections of Line in File] first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

As Linux users, we interact with the text files on a regular basis. One of the common operations we perform on these files is

The post 8 Cut Command Examples [Cut Sections of Line in File] first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

D8VK v1.0 Released For Running Direct3D 8 Games Atop Vulkan

Phoronix - Wed, 05/10/2023 - 17:44
While DXVK is used by Steam Play for implementing Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs atop Vulkan and there is also VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 on Vulkan, D8VK's aim is for the aging Microsoft Direct3D 8 API atop Vulkan for enhancing the experience of older games on Linux...

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