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Qualcomm Open-Sources The ELD Linker Embedded Linker

Phoronix - Mon, 04/14/2025 - 17:55
While LLVM LLD and Mold are two popular linkers on Linux systems with the latter being known for its impressive speed and much faster than GNU LD and Gold, this past week Qualcomm open-sourced a new linker: ELD...

How to Detect Bad Sectors or Bad Blocks on Linux Hard Drives

Tecmint - Mon, 04/14/2025 - 13:00
The post How to Detect Bad Sectors or Bad Blocks on Linux Hard Drives first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Let’s start by defining a bad sector/bad block, it is a section on a disk drive or flash memory that

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How to Delete All Files in a Folder Except Certain Extensions

Tecmint - Mon, 04/14/2025 - 12:31
The post How to Delete All Files in a Folder Except Certain Extensions first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Sometimes, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to delete all files in a directory or simply

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Linux 6.15-rc2 Released With An Assortment Of Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 04/14/2025 - 03:09
One week after the Linux 6.15 merge window was capped off, the Linux 6.15-rc2 release is now available in rolling up all of the early fixes that were collected over the past week...

Amarok 3.3 Beta Released For Qt6-Powered KDE Music Player

Phoronix - Sun, 04/13/2025 - 18:48
Last year work on KDE's Amarok music player was resurrected after a six year development hiatus. With the return to Amarok development it was ported to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 5. At the end of last year Amarok 3.2 released with initial Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 support while retaining Qt5/KF5 support. Now out today is the Amarok 3.3 beta to drop that prior-generation support...

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