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Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes Back To AMD Ryzen System

Phoronix - Mon, 06/29/2026 - 22:36
Red Hat senior software engineer Marcin Juszkiewicz of Red Hat's ARM Team had been dogfeeding with an AArch64 Linux desktop being used as his primary, personal system for nearly the past year. But now he shared he has gone back to using his AMD Ryzen desktop instead over AArch64 Linux issues encountered with his Ampere Altra desktop...

Infinity Scheduler Aims To Be A Better Linux Scheduler

Phoronix - Mon, 06/29/2026 - 21:52
The Infinity Scheduler is another attempt at improving the CPU scheduling behavior under Linux and created by the developer behind the existing "scx_flow" sched_ext scheduler. But Infinity Scheduler isn't taking the approach of using sched_ext and is rather patched into the Linux kernel in modifying CFS and RT behavior...

How to Downgrade and Lock Packages With dnf in RHEL Systems

Tecmint - Mon, 06/29/2026 - 19:37
The post How to Downgrade and Lock Packages With dnf in RHEL Systems first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

You ran dnf update, and now something has stopped working. Instead of spending hours troubleshooting, you just want to go

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AMD Linux Patches Introduce New "Low Power" CPU Core Type

Phoronix - Mon, 06/29/2026 - 18:32
A new Linux kernel patch series posted to the kernel mailing list minutes ago is introducing a new "Low Power" CPU core type for AMD heterogeneous processors. The x86 topology code in the Linux kernel already supports the notion of Performance and Efficiency type cores while now a new "Low Power" core type is being introduced for AMD heterogeneous platforms...

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