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Linux 6.12 To Drop Old Code That Slows Down CPU Frequency Polling  Phoronix

The Linux 6.12 kernel cycle later this year has a change coming that will impact users of the "Schedutil" CPU frequency scaling governor. This change is dropping the "LATENCY_MULTIPLIER" that has been within the kernel code the past two decades to slowdown how frequent the CPU frequency evaluation occurs. In turn the revised logic can allow for that CPUFreq frequency re-evaluation to occur more often...

How To Manage Linux Log Services  The New Stack

Linux kernel impacted by new SLUBStick cross-cache attack  BleepingComputer

For those intrigued by the likes of the likes of Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla OS, and NixOS for an immutable Linux distribution but desiring something based on Arch Linux, Manjaro Linux has an immutable variant now available for testing...

Immutable Version Of Arch-Based Manjaro Linux Available For Testing  Phoronix

Linux: Mount Remote Directories With SSHFS  The New Stack

Want to Go Next-Level in Linux? Advanced Terms Explained  How-To Geek

While not as common as GRUB or systemd-boot, a new version of Limine is now available for this open-source, modern-focused and portable multi-protocol bootloader...

In addition to the KDE development activity this week, GNOME developers have also been busy polishing their desktop ahead of their next GNOME release in September...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekend update that recaps all of the interesting KDE development activities for the past week...

Linux Kernel 6.9 Reaches End of Life, Users Must Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.10  9to5Linux

Linux Handheld Packs Dual Batteries So It’s Never Out Of Juice  Hackaday

Telegram-Controlled TgRat Attacking Linux Servers to Exfiltrate Data  CybersecurityNews

Sail The Fediverse With Tuba Client for Linux  It's FOSS News

How to Dual-Boot Windows 11 and Linux Ubuntu on your PC  Gizchina.com

MySQL Database Dump on Ubuntu/Linux | by Jayprakash Jangir | Aug, 2024  Medium

Lessons Learned About Windows Subsystem for Linux Accounts, Part 1: Reset  Redmondmag.com

Lessons Learned About Windows Subsystem for Linux Accounts, Part 1: Reset  Redmondmag.com

With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS the engineers at Canonical began focusing more on the performance of Ubuntu and establishing a performance team at the company. This work is ongoing and for Ubuntu 24.10 they are exploring another exciting area: leveraging "-O3" compiler optimizations for Ubuntu packages. Available today is an experimental build of the Ubuntu desktop and server ISOs that are compiled for the -O3 optimization level...