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Klp-build Proposed As A New Means Of Generating Linux Kernel Livepatch Modules

Phoronix - Tue, 09/03/2024 - 20:41
Posted today as a "request for comments" by longtime Linux developer Josh Poimboeuf of Red Hat is klp-build. The klp-build proposal is a new means of building livepatch modules for live-patching the Linux kernel to address bugs and security issues with the running kernel image...

F2FS Inline Tail Allows For Saving Space On Small Files & Reducing I/O

Phoronix - Tue, 09/03/2024 - 18:56
Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list today allow for inline tail support within the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS). This inline tail support allows for saving space when storing many small files and with reduced I/O can lead to faster data copy times...

Power Profiles Daemon 0.22 Released With Several AMD Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 09/03/2024 - 18:41
Power Profiles Daemon as the UPower project to make Linux laptop/system power profile handling via D-Bus is out with a new release. This is the Linux/open-source solution for exposing of power profiles to the Linux desktop and better managing the system state between power-saver / balanced / performance modes and other options...

Coreboot 24.08 Released With 31 New Motherboards, Initial Intel Panther Lake Support

Phoronix - Tue, 09/03/2024 - 18:31
Coreboot 24.08 debuted on Monday night as the newest feature release for this open-source system firmware project that allows replacing the proprietary BIOS/firmware on many different platforms. With Coreboot 24.08 comes more than 900 patches from 130+ developers in continuing to support new motherboards and making other improvements...

Google Increases AVIF Image Format Support With Google Search Support

Phoronix - Tue, 09/03/2024 - 18:03
While two years ago Google notably axed support for JPEG-XL within the Chrome web browser, they remain bullish on WebP and AVIF for imaging needs. This past week they finally announced Google Search is now supporting AVIF images...

How to Split Large ‘tar’ Archive into Multiple Files of Certain Size

Tecmint - Tue, 09/03/2024 - 15:00
The post How to Split Large ‘tar’ Archive into Multiple Files of Certain Size first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Are you worried about transferring or uploading large files over a network? Worry no more, because you can move your

The post How to Split Large ‘tar’ Archive into Multiple Files of Certain Size first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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