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Linux 6.3-rc6 Released For Easter

Phoronix - Mon, 04/10/2023 - 03:08
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.3-rc6 for this Easter Sunday as we work towards the official Linux 6.3 debut in the next few weeks...

Intel Lunar Lake Audio Support Coming For Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Sun, 04/09/2023 - 21:19
Going along with other Lunar Lake enablement work that has already been started for the upstream Linux kernel, the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle will see HD audio support enabled for this successor to Arrow Lake...

Improved Btrfs Scrub Code Readied For Linux 6.4, ~10% Faster

Phoronix - Sun, 04/09/2023 - 20:35
The Btrfs scrub code that is used for going through file-system data/metadata to verify checksums and repairing damaged blocks is seeing some improvements come Linux 6.4...

Intel Arrow Lake Enablement For Linux Looking To Get Underway

Phoronix - Sun, 04/09/2023 - 18:37
While for many months now Intel's open-source driver engineers have been busy getting Meteor Lake Linux support squared away and there has even been some Lunar Lake activity for the Linux kernel going back to 2021, it looks now like their Arrow Lake enablement will be getting underway...

Picolibc 1.8.1 Released With Microblaze Support, Various Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 04/09/2023 - 18:01
Keith Packard has released Picolibc 1.8.1 as the newest update to his minimal/lightweight libc implementation...

How to Use ‘fsck’ to Repair Linux File System Errors

Tecmint - Sun, 04/09/2023 - 13:31
The post How to Use ‘fsck’ to Repair Linux File System Errors first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux Filesystems are responsible for organizing how data is stored and recovered. One way or another, with time, the filesystem may become corrupted and certain parts of it may not be accessible. If your

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How to Run Linux Commands in Background and Detach in Terminal

Tecmint - Sun, 04/09/2023 - 13:00
The post How to Run Linux Commands in Background and Detach in Terminal first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this guide, we shall bring to light a simple yet important concept in process handling in a Linux system, which is how to completely detach a process from its controlling terminal. When a

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Early KDE Plasma 6 Development State: "It's Still Rough, But It's Usable"

Phoronix - Sat, 04/08/2023 - 23:22
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of notable KDE desktop developments for this first week of April...

Intel Sends In Last Round Of Graphics Driver Feature Updates For Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Sat, 04/08/2023 - 18:48
Following this week's drm-intel-gt-next pull with more Meteor Lake enablement and other new feature code, a final batch of drm-intel-next feature updates were also submitted to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.4 kernel merge window...

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