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AMD Bus Lock Trap Support Merged For Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 22:00
Going back to early in the year AMD Linux engineers began preparing support for a new Bus Lock Trap feature with Zen 5 CPUs. With the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel that support is being merged...

Sched_Ext Changes Merged For Linux 6.13 With LLC & NUMA Awareness

Phoronix - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 19:47
One of the most prominent new features in Linux 6.12 was the merging of sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler innovations by altering the scheduling behavior through (e)BPF programs. With the Linux 6.13 kernel there are some nice refinements to this extensible scheduler class...

XFS With Linux 6.13 Sees Major Rework To Real-Time Volumes

Phoronix - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 19:25
The XFS file-system updates were merged yesterday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window...

Intel NPU Library v1.4 Adds Turbo Mode & Tensor Operations

Phoronix - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 19:16
Version 1.4 of the Intel NPU Acceleration Library was released today as the Python library for use on Windows and Linux for interacting with the Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for AI offloading on recent Intel Core Ultra processors...

New Sound Hardware Support In Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 19:05
SUSE engineer and sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai has submitted all of the sound driver updates for the Linux 6.13 kernel...

Beginner to Pro: 10 Must-Have Resources to Learn R Programming

Tecmint - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 13:58
The post Beginner to Pro: 10 Must-Have Resources to Learn R Programming first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

R is one of the most popular programming languages for statistical computing and data analysis, which is used by data

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Warehouse: The Ultimate GUI for Managing Flatpak Apps in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 13:11
The post Warehouse: The Ultimate GUI for Managing Flatpak Apps in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

As a Linux enthusiast, especially one who frequently utilizes Flatpak for application management, I’ve always found the command-line interface (CLI)

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Nice File Performance Optimizations Coming With Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 10:02
In addition to the pull requests managed by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner for VFS untorn writes for atomic writes with XFS and EXT4, Tmpfs case insensitive file/folder support, new Rust file abstractions, and the renewed multi-grain timestamps work, another interesting Linux 6.13 pull submitted by Brauner revolves around VFS file enhancements...

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