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Improve Website Performance – Install Memcached on RHEL 9

Tecmint - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 14:00
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Memcached is an open-source distributed memory object caching program that allows us to improve and speed up the performance of

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zzUpdate – Fully Upgrade Ubuntu to Latest Newer Release

Tecmint - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 13:00
The post zzUpdate – Fully Upgrade Ubuntu to Latest Newer Release first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

zzUpdate is a free, open-source, simple, fully configurable, and easy-to-use command line utility to upgrade an Ubuntu system via an apt package management

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Linus Torvalds Demotes "FORCE_NR_CPUS" Embedded Linux Option To Avoid Confusion

Phoronix - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 08:26
The Linux kernel "FORCE_NR_CPUS" Kconfig option has been around a few years to force the number of CPU cores the kernel expects in order to allow for better compiler optimizations. When building a kernel targeted for a specific device/platform with a given number of CPU cores, the compiler can optimize CPU mask routines and shrink the size of the resulting kernel image rather than having to accommodate up to a dynamic upper-limit for the number of CPU cores to be found at boot time. Linus Torvalds himself has turned to demoting this CONFIG_FORCE_NR_CPUS option further to avoid confusion...

Intel Panther Lake Audio Support Coming With Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 04:00
While Intel Panther Lake processors aren't expected until mid-2025, with Intel open-source Linux engineers already having much of the Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake support in order (the main Lunar Lake area still being ironed out is the Xe2 graphics), work is slowly beginning on upstreaming Panther Lake support...

Fedora 41 To Replace Power-Profiles-Daemon With "Tuned"

Phoronix - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 00:36
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has approved of Fedora 41 switching from power-profiles-daemon to "Tuned" as the default power profile management daemon on Fedora Workstation as well as the KDE Plasma and Budgie desktop spins...

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