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Linux Support Continues For The Now-Canceled Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit For Windows

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 21:00
While last week Qualcomm canceled their Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit as a $899 USD mini PC built for Windows 11 on ARM and powered by the X1 Elite SoC, the upstreaming Linux support for it is continuing...

DRM Client Library Code Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 19:05
The newest drm-misc-next pull request was submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window opening up in about one month's time...

FUTEX2 NUMA & Small Futexes Revived For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 18:55
Back in 2020~2021 there was lots of talk and work around FUTEX2 for improving the Linux kernel's Futex implementation for fast user mutex. The FUTEX2 work was driven in large part for helping Steam Play / Wine gaming by better matching the behavior of Microsoft Windows with its WaitForMultipleObjects handling. While the initial code landed back in Linux 5.16, there's been other remaining FUTEX2 features still desired like variable-sized futexes and NUMA-awareness. Finally now we're seeing that work revived...

Cloud Hypervisor 42 Released With SVE/SVE2 Support For AArch64 Guests

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 18:44
Cloud Hypervisor 42.0 is out as the newest update of this open-source, Rust-based hypervisor that began as an Intel software project but is now developed by a number of different organizations from Arm to Microsoft...

rbash – A Restricted Bash Shell Explained with Practical Examples

Tecmint - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 14:31
The post rbash – A Restricted Bash Shell Explained with Practical Examples first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In the world of Linux and Unix-like systems, security is crucial, especially when multiple users share a system. One way

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How to Monitor Apache Load with mod_status in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 13:00
The post How to Monitor Apache Load with mod_status in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this article, you’ll learn how to monitor your Apache web server’s load and track requests using the mod_status module,

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Intel Preps OA Sync, Panther Lake Workaround & Other New Graphics Code For Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 08:36
For the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle there is Xe2 Ultra Joiner and GPU temperature monitoring support along with initial Xe3 graphics support for integrated form with Panther Lake among the Intel graphics driver changes expected so far. Another batch of the Xe kernel graphics driver changes were submitted today for modern Intel graphics with this upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle...

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