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4 Tools to Find Which Linux Process Is Using Your Bandwidth

Tecmint - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 13:14
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Your Linux server’s network is maxed out, and you have no idea what’s eating it, so here’s how to find

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Mozilla Firefox Usage Of zlib-rs For Better Safety & Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 08:46
Since the release in May of Firefox 151, Mozilla has been relying on the zlib-rs library for Gzip compression/decompression. This subtle change to use this Rust-based Zlib implementation has yielded some performance benefits and better memory safety but also some headaches when dealing with Intel CPU bugs...

Bring your own knowledge to the automation intelligent assistant

Red Hat News - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 08:00
Last year, we released the automation intelligent assistant (formerly Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant), a generative AI service accessed through a chatbot embedded within Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Using a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipeline connected to Red Hat documentation and other trusted resources, the intelligent assistant allows administrators to use natural language prompts to help them manage and troubleshoot Ansible Automation Platform without leaving the platform UI. The automation intelligent assistant in the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platfor

Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 05:16
There is no shortage of different file-systems available for Linux. New file-systems continue to come about in the open-source world but ultimately many of them end up not being well maintained or having very limited users and not necessarily innovating enough to make them worthwhile over other alternatives. Given the continued increase in file-systems looking to get into the Linux kernel, such as FTRFS and VMUFAT being some of the most recent and then even having multiple NTFS drivers for Linux, there is now documentation in place to formally lay out criteria for new file-systems to be accepted...

KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Finally Comes To Slackware

Phoronix - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 04:29
It's been a while since there has been any Slackware news to pass along, but this week they've finally landed the KDE Plasma 6 desktop in this legendary Linux distribution...

Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2

Phoronix - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 04:20
The Btrfs file-system feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel with a few noteworthy changes for this copy-on-write file-system...

Wayland's Weston 16 Alpha Brings HDR Improvements, Vulkan Renderer Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 01:52
Wayland developers have prepared the release of Weston 16.0 Alpha 1 for this reference Wayland compositor with new features...

Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More

Phoronix - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 01:05
Yet another performance optimization merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel is improving the speed of anon_pipe_write, the kernel function used for writing data into anonymous/unnamed pipes such as when using shell pipelines or standard streams from applications...

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