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The Quest For Faster getrandom() Performance Continues Two Years Later

Phoronix - Mon, 06/10/2024 - 18:15
Going back just under two years was the propsal for adding getrandom() to the vDSO in the quest to achieve faster performance for obtaining random numbers in user-space. That effort while seemingly simple remains an ongoing and contentious matter...

A Lot More AMD RDNA4/GFX12 Graphics Driver Code Has Landed In Mesa 24.2

Phoronix - Mon, 06/10/2024 - 17:57
A lot of AMD GFX12 IP enablement landed in Mesa 24.2-devel over the past week for bringing up the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver and RADV Vulkan driver for the upcoming RDNA4 graphics...

How to Install XFCE Desktop on a Fresh Arch Linux System

Tecmint - Mon, 06/10/2024 - 13:00
The post How to Install XFCE Desktop on a Fresh Arch Linux System first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In our previous tutorial, we demonstrated step-by-step instructions on how to install Arch Linux. Notably, the installation of Arch takes

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How to Install Fail2ban to Stop Brute-Force Attacks on Ubuntu 24.04

Tecmint - Mon, 06/10/2024 - 12:33
The post How to Install Fail2ban to Stop Brute-Force Attacks on Ubuntu 24.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Fail2ban is a powerful Python-based security tool that helps protect Linux systems from brute-force attacks by blocking IP addresses that

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Linux 6.10-rc3 Released For A Boring But Good Week

Phoronix - Mon, 06/10/2024 - 05:37
Linus Torvalds just announced the release of Linux 6.10-rc3 as a rather pleasant week for this stage of the kernel cycle...

Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Now Defaults To Btrfs Rather Than XFS

Phoronix - Mon, 06/10/2024 - 00:25
Arch Linux derivative CachyOS that is optimized for a nice desktop experience and shipping a nice set of performance optimizations/tuning by default is out with its June 2024 refresh...

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