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Updated DRM Rust Abstractions For Linux As Part Of Bringing Up The Nova Driver  Phoronix

For those running the command "systemd-tmpfiles --purge" and think that this command just deletes your temporary files, think again and watch out. In reality it will delete all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d entry... Including the /home that is created by systemd-tmpfiles' home.conf. With users being bitten in recent days by this behavior when they were just expecting tmp files to be removed, systemd 256.1 is now available and does have a change to avoid inadvertently deleting your all-important home directory...

The post How to Disable and Remove Unnecessary Services on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

When you install RHEL 9, the system comes with a minimal set of pre-installed packages and services to keep the

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Red Hat Achieves Major Milestone for In-Vehicle Linux with Functional Safety Assessment and Certification for Linux ...  WebWire

Cinnamon 6.2 is Ready for Linux Mint 22 With Subtle Feature Additions  It's FOSS News

I've used Linux for 30 years. Here are 5 reasons why I'll never switch to Windows or MacOS  ZDNet

SUSE upgrades its distros with 19 years of support - no other Linux comes close  ZDNet

SUSE Enhances Linux, Cloud Native Virtualization & Management, and Edge Platform Solutions to Empower ...  PR Newswire

SUSE Enhances Linux, Cloud Native Virtualization & Management, and Edge Platform Solutions to Empower ...  PR Newswire

The post Improve Website Performance – Install Memcached on RHEL 9 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Memcached is an open-source distributed memory object caching program that allows us to improve and speed up the performance of

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zzUpdate is a free, open-source, simple, fully configurable, and easy-to-use command line utility to upgrade an Ubuntu system via an apt package management

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Lindroid Promises True Linux On Android  Hackaday

The Linux kernel "FORCE_NR_CPUS" Kconfig option has been around a few years to force the number of CPU cores the kernel expects in order to allow for better compiler optimizations. When building a kernel targeted for a specific device/platform with a given number of CPU cores, the compiler can optimize CPU mask routines and shrink the size of the resulting kernel image rather than having to accommodate up to a dynamic upper-limit for the number of CPU cores to be found at boot time. Linus Torvalds himself has turned to demoting this CONFIG_FORCE_NR_CPUS option further to avoid confusion...

Linus Torvalds Demotes "FORCE_NR_CPUS" Embedded Linux Option To Avoid Confusion  Phoronix

The postmarketOS Project Celebrates a Major Milestone as it Passes 250 Supported Devices  Hackster.io

These 5 Linux file managers are better than what you're using now - and they're free  ZDNet

Intel Panther Lake Audio Support Coming With Linux 6.11  Phoronix

While Intel Panther Lake processors aren't expected until mid-2025, with Intel open-source Linux engineers already having much of the Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake support in order (the main Lunar Lake area still being ironed out is the Xe2 graphics), work is slowly beginning on upstreaming Panther Lake support...

SUSE plans more support for gen AI workloads  Network World

Making my first embedded Linux system #Linux #SBC @popovicu94  Adafruit Blog