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Linux 6.15's New "hugetlb_alloc_threads" Option Can Help Speed-Up Boot Times

Phoronix - Thu, 04/03/2025 - 22:54
Among the changes that landed this week for the Linux 6.15 merge window were all of the memory management "MM" updates, of which there are several notable patch series included...

Intel Patches Finally Exposing NPU Frequency Under Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 04/03/2025 - 22:11
For those looking into some insight around the Intel neural processing unit (NPU) utilization with modern Core Ultra systems, pending Linux patches will finally introduce the ability for user-space to obtain the current NPU frequency...

Linux 6.15 Brings Improvements For Five Decade Old GPIB Bus

Phoronix - Thu, 04/03/2025 - 20:57
Going back to 1972 is the General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB, a.k.a. IEEE-488) as a parallel interface bus developed by HP. GPIB pre-dates the Linux kernel itself while it wasn't until last year that the GPIB driver subsystem was added to the Linux kernel's staging area with GPIB still seeing some use by scientific equipment and other devices. For Linux 6.15, the GPIB code has seen a thorough round of code clean-ups and improvements...

Linux 6.15 Device Mapper Brings Inline Crypto Passthrough For DM-Stripe

Phoronix - Thu, 04/03/2025 - 18:41
All of the Device Mapper "DM" changes have been merged to mainline for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel...

Rust 1.86 Released With Trait Upcasting, Deprecates i586-PC-Windows-MSVC

Phoronix - Thu, 04/03/2025 - 18:25
Rust 1.86 is now available today as the latest version of this popular programming language...

10 Python Built-in Functions That Will Simplify Your Code

Tecmint - Thu, 04/03/2025 - 13:50
The post 10 Python Built-in Functions That Will Simplify Your Code first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

As developers, we often stick to our favorite built-in Python functions and sometimes even write custom solutions for problems that

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10 Lesser Known Linux Commands That Are Super Useful

Tecmint - Thu, 04/03/2025 - 12:37
The post 10 Lesser Known Linux Commands That Are Super Useful first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

As Linux users, we often rely on our go-to commands ls, grep, awk, sed, and find – to get things

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Linux 6.15 Removes Support For IBM's CXL/CAPI Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 04/03/2025 - 08:23
Not to be confused with the modern Compute Express Link (CXL) standard, but IBM's Coherent Accelerator Interface "CXL" / Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface "CAPI" support was stripped away today from the mainline Linux kernel...

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