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Sony Adds DualShock 4 Controller Support To Their Newer Linux PlayStation Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 11/14/2022 - 19:00
Going back eight years to Linux 3.15 there has been Sony DualShock 4 controller support using the "hid-sony" driver thanks to work from the open-source community. But now Sony is adding DualShock 4 controller support to their newer "hid-playstation" driver that they started for PlayStation 5 controller support and are now extending it backwards for the PS4 controller...

GCC 13 "-O2" Performance Being Sped Up With Enabling Small Loop Unrolling

Phoronix - Mon, 11/14/2022 - 18:39
For those compiling their programs using the common "-O2" optimization level as is used for the production builds by many Linux distributions and other software vendors, small loop unrolling is being enabled at this level for GCC 13. Enabling small loop unrolling with -O2 should help the performance in some areas of modern Intel and AMD CPUs...

Linux 6.2 Implementing Dynamic Shadow Call Stack Support For AArch64

Phoronix - Mon, 11/14/2022 - 18:20
The Linux kernel built with Clang has supported Shadow Call Stack "SCS: to prevent return address overwrites. With patches building up for Linux 6.2, Dynamic Shadow Call Stack is being implemented to avoid the overhead of SCS on processors supporting pointer authentication (PAC)...

An Easy Way to Hide Files and Directories in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 11/14/2022 - 16:18
The post An Easy Way to Hide Files and Directories in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Do you occasionally share your Linux desktop machine with family members, friends, or perhaps with colleagues at your workplace, then you have a reason to hide certain private files as well as folders or

The post An Easy Way to Hide Files and Directories in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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