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Updated DRM Rust Abstractions For Linux As Part Of Bringing Up The Nova Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 20:48
Sent out last month were the very preliminary Rust-written Nova GPU kernel driver patches for this in-development Direct Rendering Manager driver for open-source NVIDIA GPU support for RTX 20 / Turing GPUs and newer by leveraging the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP). Sent out this week is the second iteration of the stubbed Nova kernel driver and the associated Rust language DRM subsystem abstractions...

Systemd 256.1 Fixes "systemd-tmpfiles" Unexpectedly Deleting Your /home Directory

Phoronix - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 18:03
For those running the command "systemd-tmpfiles --purge" and think that this command just deletes your temporary files, think again and watch out. In reality it will delete all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d entry... Including the /home that is created by systemd-tmpfiles' home.conf. With users being bitten in recent days by this behavior when they were just expecting tmp files to be removed, systemd 256.1 is now available and does have a change to avoid inadvertently deleting your all-important home directory...

How to Disable and Remove Unnecessary Services on Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 17:00
The post How to Disable and Remove Unnecessary Services on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

When you install RHEL 9, the system comes with a minimal set of pre-installed packages and services to keep the

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Improve Website Performance – Install Memcached on RHEL 9

Tecmint - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 14:00
The post Improve Website Performance – Install Memcached on RHEL 9 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

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...

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