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Intel Introducing QAT "GEN6" Driver To The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 18:12
Intel has readied a new "qat_6xxx" driver for the Linux kernel for supporting QAT GEN6 devices with QuickAssist Technology. QAT GEN6 will presumably be found with upcoming Xeon 6 Clearwater Forest and Diamond Rapids processors while the Linux kernel driver should be introduced for Linux 6.16...

Intel P-State Energy Aware Scheduling May Be Ready For Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 17:55
Going back to last year there have been patches for adapting the Intel P-State Linux driver with support for Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) as what began as an Arm big.LITTLE feature but since being explored for use by the Intel P-State driver for hybrid CPUs without SMT which for the moment means Lunar Lake SoCs. A new version of the patches were posted on Tuesday and likely to be the last refinement to this patch series...

How to Append Text to Every File Using a Bash Script

Tecmint - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 15:16
The post How to Append Text to Every File Using a Bash Script first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Appending text to files is a common task in systems administration and development, especially when dealing with large datasets or

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Python Scripts for RHEL: Automate User Management, Monitoring & Backups

Tecmint - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 12:00
The post Python Scripts for RHEL: Automate User Management, Monitoring & Backups first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

System administration often involves repetitive tasks such as file management, user account creation, service monitoring, and system backups. While Linux-based

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Valve Releases Updated Proton 10.0 Beta For Testing

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 03:47
Last week Valve introduced Proton 10.0 beta as the newest version of their Wine-derived software for Steam Play that enables countless Windows games to run well for Linux gamers on the desktop and with the extremely popular Steam Deck. Out today is another Proton 10.0 beta update with some additional bug and regression fixes over what was shipped last week...

RISC-V LLVM Scheduler Tuning For SpacemiT-X60 On Clang Yields 4~18% Speedups

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 03:34
The SpacemiT-X60 RISC-V SoC can enjoy some very healthy performance improvements with scheduler definitions now merged for the LLVM/Clang 21 compiler...

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