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Linux can run on only 4MB of SRAM — Azure Sphere and SudoMaker's X1501 Pico show off the extremes of Linux's ...  Tom's Hardware

In addition to approving -O3 optimized Python builds, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESC)) this week unanimously approved a Fedora 41 change proposal for making RPM package builds more reproducible...

Over the past year there's been much work happening within the Linux kernel's sysctl code for clearing up ~64 bytes of bloat per array throughout the kernel by dropping the last sysctl "sentinel" entry at the end of each array. This also helps in reducing the build time of the kernel and is a nice improvement. With Linux 6.10, the sysctl sentinel clearing throughout different subsystems is set to happen...

Linux 6.10 Goes Ahead In Removing Sysctl Sentinel Bloat  Phoronix

For the past several months AMD Linux engineers have been working on AMD Core Performance Boost support for their P-State CPU frequency scaling driver. The ninth iteration of these patches were posted on Monday and besides the global enabling/disabling support for Core Performance Boost, it's now possible to selectively toggle the feature on a per-CPU core basis...

AMD Core Performance Boost For Linux Getting Per-CPU Core Controls  Phoronix

SteamVR Beta gets an SDL fix for Fedora Linux fans  GamingOnLinux

SteamVR Beta gets an SDL fix for Fedora fans  GamingOnLinux

GCC 14.1 has been released today as the first stable compiler release in the GCC 14 series. GCC 14.1 brings one year worth of improvements to this open-source compiler from new CPU support and new ISA extensions to new C/C++ language features, static analyzer improvements, new AMD GPU support, and many other additions...

Playtron give a bit more detail on the Linux-based PlaytronOS and their plans  GamingOnLinux

First 9front release of the year is called DO NOT INSTALL  The Register

Linux Lite 7.0 Is Now Available for Testing, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Xfce 4.18  9to5Linux

Compressing files using the zip command on Linux  Network World

The post How to Add Comments in Your Bash Scripts first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

When you write a Bash script, sometimes you want to add comments to explain what certain parts of the script do. In Bash scripting, there

The post How to Add Comments in Your Bash Scripts first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

From Comparison to Choice: kpatch vs Ksplice and the Advantages of Switching to KernelCare  Security Boulevard

Every year I look forward to Red Hat Summit as a moment to collaborate, innovate and gain inspiration from our partner ecosystem. Now more than ever, I am convinced that this is the age of the ecosystem. The industry is booming with emerging technologies, which are influencing organizations to rethink the ways in which they operate, optimize and scale their business. For many, this means reconciling existing systems and infrastructure with new solutions. Long gone are the days of a single datacenter and single cloud strategy.At the center of today’s IT landscape is the opportunity of artific

Between new business demands and general complexities of the modern organization, a big challenge that you’re likely facing is the need for application and infrastructure modernization.How do you balance the old and the new? VMs are a crucial part of IT environments, but containers and cloud computing have become the new norm. And what is the best and most efficient way to modernize and migrate? Answering this question becomes more difficult when you’re looking across multiple platforms and environments.To help simplify this, Red Hat AWS have partnered to help our customers take advantage

Being a cluster administrator can come with its own challenges, especially with environments that carry out-of-tree (OOT) cluster modules. Upgrading device plug-ins or different kernel versions can be prone to errors when doing so one-by-one. This is where the Kernel Module Management Operator (KMM) comes in, allowing admins to build, sign, and deploy multiple kernel versions for any kernel module.KMM is designed to accommodate multiple kernel versions at once for any kernel module. Using this operator can also leverage the hardware acceleration capabilities of Intel Center GPU Flex, allowing

Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Is Slated for Release on October 10th, 2024  9to5Linux

5 quick tweaks make your GNOME desktop so much easier to use  ZDNet