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Manjaro Linux Working On "Manjaro Data Donor" As New Data Collection Tool

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 22:00
Arch-based Manjaro Linux is working on Manjaro Data Donor "MDD" as a new data collection tool of its users. This is intended to succeed their former ping-based solution for user counting plus incorporate hardware/software data collection on users. Once deployed, this will be opt-out handling for the data collection...

Fujitsu Monaka CPU Target Added To GCC 15 Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 21:28
Fujitsu has upstreamed support for their next-gen "Monaka" Armv9 processor into the GNU Compiler Collection codebase in time for the GCC 15 release coming out early next year...

F2FS File-System Adding Device Aliasing Feature For Nifty Uses

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 20:00
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is adding a device aliasing file feature that could appear in the upcoming Linux v6.13 merge window...

Platform Profile Support Coming For Newer Dell/Alienware Laptops With Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 19:33
Select newer Dell/Alienware laptops with a "WMAX" thermal interface will see ACPI Platform Profile support now exposed with the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle...

AMD Posts New Linux Mitigation Handling For SRSO/Inception

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 19:17
AMD Linux engineer Borislav Petkov kicked off the new week by volleying a patch for adjusting the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO, a.k.a. "Inception") vulnerability mitigation handling for capabilities to be found with affected processors running on newer CPU microcode...

CachyOS Explores Optimizing Its Kernel With AutoFDO

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 18:55
CachyOS continues to be a fascinating Arch Linux based distribution that pushes the boundaries of out-of-the-box performance with a variety of patches, optimization techniques, specialized package builds, and more. One of the latest areas they are exploring is making use of AutoFDO for their kernel builds...

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