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F2FS File-System Adding Device Aliasing Feature For Nifty Uses

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 20:00
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is adding a device aliasing file feature that could appear in the upcoming Linux v6.13 merge window...

Platform Profile Support Coming For Newer Dell/Alienware Laptops With Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 19:33
Select newer Dell/Alienware laptops with a "WMAX" thermal interface will see ACPI Platform Profile support now exposed with the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle...

AMD Posts New Linux Mitigation Handling For SRSO/Inception

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 19:17
AMD Linux engineer Borislav Petkov kicked off the new week by volleying a patch for adjusting the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO, a.k.a. "Inception") vulnerability mitigation handling for capabilities to be found with affected processors running on newer CPU microcode...

CachyOS Explores Optimizing Its Kernel With AutoFDO

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 18:55
CachyOS continues to be a fascinating Arch Linux based distribution that pushes the boundaries of out-of-the-box performance with a variety of patches, optimization techniques, specialized package builds, and more. One of the latest areas they are exploring is making use of AutoFDO for their kernel builds...

Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 Launches For $60 USD, 720 x 1280 7-Inch Display

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 18:39
Nine years after the Raspberry Pi Touch Display was announced as a 800 x 480 pixel LCD panel catering to the Raspberry Pi, today the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 was announced...

Linux 6.12-rc6 Released With That Latest Performance Optimization & Various Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 08:18
Linus Torvalds has just issued the Linux 6.12-rc6 kernel release as we close in on the stable Linux 6.12 kernel release later in November...

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