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Large Folio Patches For EXT4 Show Some Nice Performance Gains  Phoronix

Where to find the best Linux support, no matter your skill level: 5 options  ZDNet

Perfctl Campaign Exploits Millions of Linux Servers for Crypto Mining and Proxyjacking  SOCRadar

7 Tricks to Make Learning the Linux Command Line Easier  How-To Geek

Sent out last night for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window were all of the perf tool changes for the wonderful "perf" subsystem for performance profiling and the like. In addition to adding the HWMON PMU to "perf stat", leader sampling for inherited task events, and various other tooling improvements, there are also vendor event updates. Most notable with the updated CPU vendor events are new AMD Zen 5 processor events...

New AMD Zen 5 Perf Events Going Into Linux 6.13  Phoronix

Complementing the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 that launched this summer, the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W was announced today for $7 as the wireless-enabled variant of this small microcontroller board...

Richard Hughes of Red Hat has released Fwupd 2.0.2 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems...

Fwupd 2.0.2 Allows Updating Firmware On Many More Devices  Phoronix

Fwupd 2.0.2 Firmware Updater Adds Support for ASUS ROG Ally, Raspberry Pi Pico  9to5Linux

The post Speed Up Ubuntu – Clean Unused Packages with Terminal first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Over time, as you use your Ubuntu system, it can accumulate unnecessary files, packages, and old updates that take up

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Get off Ubuntu 20.04 LTS now, Canonical tells users  Techzine Europe

The post Why C is Still the Go-To Language for Programmers first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

‘C‘ is a general-purpose programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs in the early 1970s. It was

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Deploy a SOC using Kali Linux in AWS  Help Net Security

While the end of year holidays are fast approaching, my commitment to Linux hardware and open-source software remains and there still is a lot of interesting content to come this year still -- each and every day, without change for roughly a decade. Unfortunately though due to the (sad) state of the ad industry, many major companies focusing on the likes of Facebook/Meta ads, and the frequent use of ad-blockers by Linux/FLOSS readers make ongoing operations increasingly difficult. But if you'd like to show some love this holiday season, the Phoronix Premium "Cyber Week" / "Black Friday" special is now taking place so you can enjoy the site ad-free, native dark mode support, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits while hopefully allowing the site to continue for years to come...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 24th, 2024  9to5Linux

Want to Install Snap Apps in Linux Mint? Here’s How  OMG! Ubuntu!

6 Commands to Clean Up Your Ubuntu System From the Terminal  How-To Geek

How to Install Slack on Linux  How-To Geek

The Linux Concept Journey — Zero Device (/dev/zero) | by Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D. | Nov, 2024  Medium