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How to Install and Optimize Obsidian on Linux  How-To Geek

In addition to the recent optional IO_uring support for the PostgreSQL database server on Linux and async I/O batch mode, another exciting performance improvement was merged this week. Landing in the PostgreSQL database server this week was support for using AVX-512 instructions for CRC32C computations...

One of the early pull requests for Linux 6.15 that I've been meaning to highlight are the VFS iomap updates sent in by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner. In particular, the VFS iomap pull brings preparations for large atomic writes and its upcoming usage by the XFS and EXT4 file-systems...

Merged a few days ago for the Linux 6.15 kernel were all of the performance events updates for which there are a few notable patches on the AMD and Intel side this cycle...

Linux 6.15 Performance Events Adds Support For AMD Zen 5 Load Latency Filtering  Phoronix

Among the pull requests coming in at the tail end of the Linux 6.15 merge window with 6.15-rc1 expected tonight are all of the Kbuild updates as the infrastructure for building out the kernel...

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.14 on Ubuntu 24.10, Here’s How  9to5Linux

Why Linux Rules the World of Science  How-To Geek

Three Chips Should Be Enough for Anyone  Hackster.io

Linux 6.15 Crypto Subsystem Delivers Faster AES-CTR For AMD Zen 5 & Other x86_64 CPUs  Phoronix

The cryptography subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 merge window are quite exciting with some optimizations for modern x86_64 Intel/AMD processors enticing us the most...

Nvidia Drivers on Linux: What You Need to Know  How-To Geek

Nvidia Drivers on Linux: What You Need to Know  How-To Geek

RISC-V With Linux 6.15 Adds Support For BFloat16 "BF16" Instructions  Phoronix

Merged on Friday for the nearly-over Linux 6.15 merge window were the RISC-V CPU architecture updates for this next kernel release...

Microsoft Says Throw Away Your Windows 10 Computers  Daily Kos

Microsoft Says Throw Away Your Windows 10 Computers  Daily Kos

Microsoft Says Throw Away Your Windows 10 Computers  Daily Kos

Debian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI  Phoronix

APT 3.0 has been officially released as the first stable version following an interesting development cycle. APT 3.0 has been dedicated to the late Steve Langasek with his many Debian and Ubuntu contributions over the years...