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Debian Orphans Bcachefs-Tools: "Impossible To Maintain In Debian Stable"

Phoronix - Fri, 08/30/2024 - 05:12
Even before the Bcachefs file-system driver was accepted into the mainline kernel, Debian for the past five years has offered a "bcachefs-tools" package to provide the user-space programs to this copy-on-write file-system. It was simple at first when it was simple C code but since the Bcachefs tools transitioned to Rust, it's become an unmaintainable mess for stable-minded distribution vendors. As such the bcachefs-tools package has now been orphaned by Debian...

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS Released With All Stable Release Updates Included

Phoronix - Fri, 08/30/2024 - 04:16
Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS has been released as the first point release of the current Long Term Support series that began in April with the "Noble Numbat" debut...

Linux 6.12 To Optionally Display A QR Code During Kernel Panics

Phoronix - Thu, 08/29/2024 - 23:00
Submitted today via DRM-Misc-Next to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window in mid-September is optional support for displaying a QR code within the DRM Panic handler infrastructure when a Linux kernel panic occurs...

AmpereOne Performance Scaling From 32 To 192 Cores, Core-For-Core Benchmarks Against Ampere Altra Max

Phoronix - Thu, 08/29/2024 - 22:25
Earlier this week I began with AmpereOne A192-32X benchmarks and will continue for the next several weeks in finally having hands-on with the 192-core AArch64 server processor using a Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD 2U server platform. In today's next phase of AmpereOne performance benchmarking is looking at how AmpereOne scales across 32, 64, 96, 128, 160, and 192 core counts plus seeing core-for-core at 128 cores how AmpereOne compares to the Ampere Altra Max M128-30 processor. Plus these AmpereOne benchmarks at varying core counts against the AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon competition.

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