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Linux patch disables TRIM and NCQ on Samsung 860/870 SSDs in Intel and AMD systems  Neowin

While Samsung has explicitly stated before that queued TRIM works for Samsung 860 SSDs on Linux and thus leading to only older Samsung 840/850 drives being blocked from queued TRIM usage, that turns out to be inaccurate and now more quirks are added for the Samsung 860 and 870 series SSDs on Linux...

While Linux 5.13 landed initial Apple Silicon M1 support, it was just the very initial bits. Now for Linux 5.15 we are seeing another step in the bring-up with the community-created Apple M1 IOMMU driver being merged...

KDE developers have kicked off September by landing many fixes for their desktop stack, including around their Plasma Wayland session...

Embedded Linux Market Growing Massively by 2021-2025 Major Players: Microchip, IBM, Mitsubishi, Advantech, Intel – Eudaemonia  Eudaemonia

How Can Suggested LFCS Exam Dumps [2021] - LFCS PDF Dumps Help to Get Brilliant Results?  The African Exponent

X.Org's DMX DDX driver for supporting Distributed Multi-Head X looks like it will be removed from the source tree after finding out the code has been rather broken for the past 14 years...

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Neither Windows, nor Linux! Shrine is 'God's Operating System'  It's FOSS

The 6 Best Ethereum Mining Software for NVIDIA and AMD  MakeUseOf

How to Fix the "make: command not found" Error in Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

Landing via Andrew Morton's patch series today in the Linux 5.15 kernel is handling for demoting pages during memory reclaim, which can be used for punting cold pages off to slower, tiered memory devices (like Intel persistent memory) when under system memory pressure...

Linux 5.15 Has A Critical Improvement For Tiered Memory Servers  Phoronix

It looks like Paragon Software's NTFS3 kernel driver providing much better Linux support for the Microsoft NTFS file-system will land for the 5.15 kernel!..

The New NTFS File-System Driver Has Been Submitted For Linux 5.15  Phoronix

How to install fail2ban on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux  TechRepublic

The last release of Gzip was v1.10 back at the end of 2018 while now it's finally been succeeded today by Gzip 1.11...

What You Missed in New York City This August (According to Linux)  Interview

Beware of malware attacks: Little-known facts and why they matter  Security Boulevard

Benchmarking The Performance Impact Of Linux 5.15's Newest Protection Around Side Channel Attacks  Phoronix