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AMD STB Support Extended To Latest Ryzen 9000 Series Desktop CPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 10/28/2024 - 18:39
It turns out the latest AMD Ryzen desktop processors offer support for AMD Smart Trace Buffer (STB) that previously was only limited to mobile platforms...

Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q3 Brings Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/28/2024 - 18:25
Intel has issued their newest quarterly feature release of their FFmpeg Cartwheel, which is their developer staging area of new video acceleration related patches for Intel graphics hardware that they are working to upstream within the widely-used, open-source FFmpeg library...

How to Create a Timeshift Snapshot Before Upgrading Linux Mint

Tecmint - Mon, 10/28/2024 - 14:31
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Upgrading your Linux Mint operating system can bring new features, security updates, and improved performance. However, it can also introduce

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How to Enable and Manage Clipboard Access in Vim on Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 10/28/2024 - 13:00
The post How to Enable and Manage Clipboard Access in Vim on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Vim is a powerful text editor that many programmers and writers use because of its features and efficiency. One useful

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Peazip – A Portable File Manager and Archive Tool for Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 10/28/2024 - 12:00
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PeaZip is a free and open-source file management tool that works on multiple operating systems, that offers strong encryption and

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Sway 1.10 Released With GPU Reset Recovery & Other Wayland Enhancements

Phoronix - Mon, 10/28/2024 - 12:00
Sway 1.10 released on Sunday as the newest version of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor for the Linux desktop...

Linux 6.12-rc5 Released With Intel LAM Disabled, ASUS Lunar Lake Laptop Performance Fix

Phoronix - Mon, 10/28/2024 - 07:31
Following a busy week of kernel drama stemming from the Russian sanctions impacting Linux maintainers, Linus Torvalds is out with the Linux 6.12-rc5 weekly test candidate...

Linux Working On A Counter To Keep Track Of The Number Of Hung Tasks Since Boot

Phoronix - Sun, 10/27/2024 - 21:24
Sent out in original patch form this past week and already iterated to a second version this Sunday, a new proposal is underway to introduce "hung_task_detect_count" as a convenient means of tracking the number of times hung tasks are detected since boot...

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