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LPC 2022: Rust Linux Drivers Capable Of Achieving Performance Comparable To C Code  Phoronix

Held today during the first day of Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 in Dublin was a Rust mini-conference about the ongoing work on making Rust a suitable systems programming language and integrating support for Rust within the mainline Linux kernel. There were many interesting talks from the status of the Rust integration from the Linux kernel to a Rust-written NVMe driver that can perform as well as the C written driver...

Google for quite some time now has been working on "Ghost" as a means of controlling the Linux kernel scheduler from user-space and/or eBPF programs. Ghost provides an extensive API so developers can alter the kernel's scheduler behavior from user-space or eBPF and fine-tune the scheduling behavior based on system preferences...

3 Ways to Screenshot Right-Click Context Menus on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

LinkedIn Donates Feature Store to Linux Foundation  Datanami

Since NTFS3 was mainlined last year in the Linux kernel as a modern NTFS read/write file-system driver developed by Paragon Software, it's mostly just been some fixes since then and other minor updates. A new NTFS3 patch series sent out today is at least preparing a new feature for this kernel driver...

Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Preparing A "hidedotfiles" Option  Phoronix

One of many changes to find with next month's Ubuntu 22.10 release is Debuginfod integration...

Ubuntu 22.10 Adds Debuginfod Integration  Phoronix

This fearsome new Linux malware will send a shudder down the spines of IT professionals  TechRadar

AMD Utilizes User-Space Hinting To Achieve Faster EPYC CPU Performance in Linux  Wccftech

PyTorch gets lit under The Linux Foundation  The Register

Looking to switch to Linux from Windows? The Feren OS Transfer Tool makes it easy  ZDNet

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 18: Run Away and Join the Circus  GamingOnLinux

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 18: Run Away and Join the Circus  GamingOnLinux

I hate to admit it but I like Disney Dreamlight Valley — works well on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

The latest Linux kernel update could play havoc with your VMs  TechRadar

VMware: 70% drop in Linux ESXi VM performance with Retbleed fixes  BleepingComputer

Meta Transitions PyTorch to the Linux Foundation  HPCwire

Now that Ubuntu 22.10 is into its feature freeze and its Linux 5.19 based kernel landed as well as moving to the GCC 12.2 compiler, I've begun testing this forthcoming Ubuntu Linux (non-LTS) release on more systems. For the current-flagship Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 "Ice Lake" processors, Ubuntu 22.10 does deliver some performance advantages over the current Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS release. However, Ubuntu 22.10 still trails in a distance behind Intel's own Clear Linux platform for the most aggressive out-of-the-box performance.