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Dynamic Preemption Support Sent In For The Linux 5.12 Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 02/17/2021 - 23:26
Ingo Molnar sent in the scheduler updates for Linux 5.12 today and it includes some notable additions, including PREEMPT_DYNAMIC, which allows changing the kernel's preemption mode at boot/run-time...

Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.2 Released For Automated Open-Source Benchmarking

Phoronix - Wed, 02/17/2021 - 21:33
The open-source, cross-platform Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.2 is out today as the newest version of our automated, production-ready benchmarking software framework...

5 reasons to use Linux package managers

opensource.com - Wed, 02/17/2021 - 20:51

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. Today, I'll talk about software repositories


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Intel Releases Updated Microcode For Linux Users To Mitigate Xeon Security Issue

Phoronix - Wed, 02/17/2021 - 20:16
Intel on Tuesday night released the "microcode-20210216" package as the latest update to their collection of CPU microcode binaries. This time around the only changes to the Intel CPU microcode binaries are for Skylake server CPUs and Cascade Lake B-0/B-1 processors in order to address two vulnerabilities that came to light last year...

LLVM 11.1 Released To Deal With ABI Breakage

Phoronix - Wed, 02/17/2021 - 19:17
LLVM 11.1.0 has been tagged as a special release to deal with ABI breakage on LLVM 11.0...

Clang LTO PR Submitted For Linux 5.12, But x86_64 Support Not Included Yet

Phoronix - Wed, 02/17/2021 - 19:05
The pull request is pending that would allow Clang Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) to be enabled when building the Linux 5.12 kernel with this alternative compiler. The initial pull request has the compiler optimization work ready for the core infrastructure and 64-bit ARM (AArch64) while the x86_64 support isn't expected until the Linux 5.13 cycle...

How to Install and Configure Hive with High Availability – Part 7

Tecmint - Wed, 02/17/2021 - 17:56
The post How to Install and Configure Hive with High Availability – Part 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Hive is a Data Warehouse model in Hadoop Eco-System. It can perform as an ETL tool on top of Hadoop. Enabling High Availability (HA) on Hive is not similar as we do in Master

The post How to Install and Configure Hive with High Availability – Part 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Use this bootable USB drive on Linux to rescue Windows users

opensource.com - Wed, 02/17/2021 - 16:01

People regularly ask me to help them rescue Windows computers that have become locked or damaged. Sometimes, I can use a Linux USB boot drive to mount Windows partitions and then transfer and back up files from the damaged systems.


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