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Microsoft Continues Working On Hyper-V Dom0 Support For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2024 - 20:41
Microsoft Linux engineers have continued preparing the Linux kernel to support Hyper-V Dom0 for Linux to run as the root partition...

GNOME Triple Buffering May Need To Be Re-Engineered - Helping NVIDIA Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2024 - 18:42
The long-in-development GNOME triple buffering support that is patched into the Ubuntu and Debian builds and available for years in patch form might need to undergo a redesign. That's to better accommodate the NVIDIA Linux driver and likely help other non-Mesa graphics drivers too...

Intel Revs Linux Driver Patches To Fend Off PCIe Thermal Issues Via Bandwidth Reduction

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2024 - 18:31
Originally published last summer were patches from Intel for the Linux kernel to introduce a PCI Express bandwidth controller Linux driver to provide a PCIe cooling mechanism via bandwidth reduction to devices in order to prevent thermal issues. One year later this driver continues to be worked on and today brought the eighth iteration of these patches...

GCC 15 Un-Deprecates Itanium IA-64 Linux Support

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2024 - 18:14
The GCC 14 compiler marked Itanium IA-64 support as obsolete with plans to remove that Intel architecture in GCC 15. But for now at least the Itanium Linux compiler support has seen some reprieve with it being un-deprecated...

How to Increase Network TCP/IP Connections in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 10/09/2024 - 14:15
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Linux is widely used for servers and networking applications. One common issue administrators face is reaching the maximum number of

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How to Identify Your Linux System: Desktop or Laptop

Tecmint - Wed, 10/09/2024 - 13:47
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When using Linux, you may want to know if your system is a desktop or a laptop, as this information

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How to Reset USB Device Using Command Line in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 10/09/2024 - 13:07
The post How to Reset USB Device Using Command Line in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Resetting a USB device from the Command Line Interface (CLI) can help resolve issues such as unresponsiveness or connection problems.

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NTFS Driver Lands Some Late Feature Enhancements For Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2024 - 03:23
While the Linux 6.12 merge window has been closed for more than one week, the modern NTFS "NTFS3" driver has seen some late feature enhancements as well as some fixes merged today for this new kernel version...

Arm's Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Support Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2024 - 02:26
For more than one year Arm engineers have been working on Guarded Control Stack "GCS" support for the Linux kernel as a means of protecting against return-oriented programming (ROP) sttacks with modern AArch64 processors. It looks like for Linux 6.13 this Arm GCS support will be ready for upstreaming...

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