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Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 To Avoid Potentially Damaging The Display

Phoronix - Tue, 10/04/2022 - 23:16
Intel laptop users running Linux are being advised to avoid running the latest Linux 5.19.12 stable kernel point release as it can potentially damage your display...

IBM Does A "Quasi-Acquisition" Of Red Hat Storage

Phoronix - Tue, 10/04/2022 - 21:00
Back in 2019 IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat while today is a "quasi-acquisition" of sorts being announced with Red Hat's Storage team being transferred to the IBM Storage team...

Btrfs Brings Some Great Performance Improvements With Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Tue, 10/04/2022 - 19:30
I always love pull requests that start off with "there's a bunch of performance improvements..." as is the case with the new Btrfs feature pull for Linux 6.1...

Disabling Spectre V2 Mitigations Is What Can Impair AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 10/04/2022 - 18:42
Last week I shared some initial numbers how surprisingly when disabling Zen 4 CPU security mitigations can actually *hurt* the Ryzen 7000 series CPU performance. While conventional wisdom and with past Intel/AMD processors yield better performance when disabling the CPU security mitigations, with the Ryzen 9 7950X it was found to be basically the opposite. I have since conducted more tests and using an AMD Ryzen 5 7600X to confirm the earlier results and dig deeper into the data.

OpenZFS 2.1.6 Released With Newer Linux Kernel Support, Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 10/04/2022 - 17:34
OpenZFS 2.1.6 was released on Monday as the newest stable update of this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and BSD platforms...

Experimental Patches Adapt Linux For A Unikernel Design

Phoronix - Tue, 10/04/2022 - 17:25
Researchers out of Boston University have been working on "Unikernel Linux" to explore application-specific optimizations to the Linux kernel...

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