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Intel Alder Lake Performance Fix To Be Backported To Linux 5.15 LTS

Phoronix - Mon, 04/18/2022 - 19:29
A Canonical kernel engineer is now proposing an Intel P-State performance fix for latest-generation Intel Alder Lake processors be back-ported to the Linux 5.15 LTS series. In turn this should then be picked up by Ubuntu 22.04's kernel build moving forward and others on this latest long-term support series for Linux...

ZoneFS File-System To See Some Improvements With Linux 5.19

Phoronix - Mon, 04/18/2022 - 19:26
Back in 2019 Western Digital announced their work on ZoneFS as a new Linux file-system just designed for specialty use-cases and running on zoned block devices. There hasn't been much code churn around ZoneFS in a number of kernel releases since it was merged back in 2020 while for Linux 5.19 this summer a number of fixes/improvements have been queuing up...

Legacy BIOS Support Remains Important For Some On Fedora, May Shift Responsibility To SIG

Phoronix - Mon, 04/18/2022 - 18:30
Earlier this month the change proposal was laid out for Fedora 37 looking to deprecate legacy BIOS support. That kicked the hornets nest with many Fedora users expressing their desire to see Fedora legacy BIOS support continue whether it be for running the Linux distribution on dated hardware or even just for VMs without UEFI boot. It's looking more like that responsibility of legacy BIOS support may instead be shifted to a new special interest group (SIG) to take up the work of maintaining and testing that pre-UEFI boot support...

Clang 15 Lands Support To Randomize Structure Layout, Linux Prepares To Use It

Phoronix - Mon, 04/18/2022 - 17:49
In matching behavior already provided by the GCC compiler, LLVM/Clang has landed "RandStruct" functionality to allow optionally randomizing the structure layout for C code...

VirtIO-Crypto Seeing A Big Performance Speedup

Phoronix - Mon, 04/18/2022 - 17:11
The "virtio-crypto" kernel driver for supporting the VirtIO-spec'ed virtual crypto hardware accelerator for virtual machines is about to offer significantly better performance...

How to Install LibreNMS Monitoring Tool on Debian 11/10

Tecmint - Mon, 04/18/2022 - 15:10
The post How to Install LibreNMS Monitoring Tool on Debian 11/10 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

LibreNMS is an open-source and fully-featured networking monitoring tool that provides a wide range of monitoring features and capabilities for your network devices. Key features include: Automatic discovery of your entire network using ARP,

The post How to Install LibreNMS Monitoring Tool on Debian 11/10 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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