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Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Linux Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 23:16
Yesterday for the Intel Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake launch date was my extensive look at the Core Ultra 9 285K under Ubuntu Linux for that 24-core desktop processor. Under focus today is the lower-tier Intel Core Ultra 5 245K with a large variety of Linux performance benchmarks for showing how this 14-core processor compares to prior Intel Core CPUs as well as the AMD Ryzen competition atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

AMDGPU Changes Readied For Linux 6.13: Runtime Repartitioning, Many Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 21:55
A big batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel graphics and compute driver updates were mailed in for DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle...

Linux Support Continues For The Now-Canceled Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit For Windows

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 21:00
While last week Qualcomm canceled their Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit as a $899 USD mini PC built for Windows 11 on ARM and powered by the X1 Elite SoC, the upstreaming Linux support for it is continuing...

DRM Client Library Code Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 19:05
The newest drm-misc-next pull request was submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window opening up in about one month's time...

FUTEX2 NUMA & Small Futexes Revived For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 18:55
Back in 2020~2021 there was lots of talk and work around FUTEX2 for improving the Linux kernel's Futex implementation for fast user mutex. The FUTEX2 work was driven in large part for helping Steam Play / Wine gaming by better matching the behavior of Microsoft Windows with its WaitForMultipleObjects handling. While the initial code landed back in Linux 5.16, there's been other remaining FUTEX2 features still desired like variable-sized futexes and NUMA-awareness. Finally now we're seeing that work revived...

Cloud Hypervisor 42 Released With SVE/SVE2 Support For AArch64 Guests

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 18:44
Cloud Hypervisor 42.0 is out as the newest update of this open-source, Rust-based hypervisor that began as an Intel software project but is now developed by a number of different organizations from Arm to Microsoft...

rbash – A Restricted Bash Shell Explained with Practical Examples

Tecmint - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 14:31
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In the world of Linux and Unix-like systems, security is crucial, especially when multiple users share a system. One way

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