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~5 Minutes Of Coding Yields A 6%+ Boost To Linux I/O Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 19:50
IO_uring creator and Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe spent about five minutes working on two patches to implement caching for issue-side time querying in the block layer and can yield 6% or more better I/O performance...

Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 19:38
A Canonical engineer has been experimenting with implementing a Linux scheduler within the Rust programming language. His early results are interesting and hopeful around the potential of a Rust-based scheduler that works via sched_ext for implementing a scheduler using eBPF that can be loaded during run-time...

Linux 6.8 Introduces New Syscalls For More Detailed File-System Mount Information

Phoronix - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 19:28
Merged back at the start of the Linux 6.8 merge window were the VFS mount API updates that introduce two new system calls: statmount() and listmount() for reading more detailed information about file-system mounts...

X.Org Server & XWayland Updated Due To Another Six Security Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 18:56
It was in 2013 a security researcher called the X.Org Server security state "worse than it looks" and quite a disaster from the security/bug perspective for the aging codebase. A decade later there's still no shortage of security vulnerabilities being uncovered within the X.Org Server...

How to Create Containers in Proxmox

Tecmint - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 14:19
The post How to Create Containers in Proxmox first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In the previous lectures, we learned how to install Proxmox on Debian and also how to create virtual machines. In this tutorial, we will see

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How to Create a Desktop Launchers in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 13:35
The post How to Create a Desktop Launchers in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux desktop environments provide users with a flexible and customizable workspace. One of the key features that enables users to streamline their workflow is the

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