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tuptime – Tracks Your Linux System’s Past and Future Uptime

Tecmint - Wed, 02/07/2024 - 13:00
The post tuptime – Tracks Your Linux System’s Past and Future Uptime first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux system administration involves many activities one of which is monitoring and checking for how long your system has been running. It is always a

The post tuptime – Tracks Your Linux System’s Past and Future Uptime first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

AMD Posts Linux Graphics Driver Patches For New IP Blocks - Presumably For RDNA4

Phoronix - Wed, 02/07/2024 - 13:00
AMD engineers on Monday posted a few new patch series for enabling some updated IP (intellectual property) blocks within their open-source AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver. This new IP is presumably part of the ongoing hardware enablement work for their next-generation RDNA4 graphics...

Intel Arrow Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Support Merged For Mesa 24.1

Phoronix - Wed, 02/07/2024 - 08:46
Intel Arrow Lake platform support has been merged to Mesa 24.1 for providing the ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) open-source drivers with support for the next-generation Intel Core integrated graphics...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Leaning Toward Low-Latency Kernel Optimizations By Default

Phoronix - Wed, 02/07/2024 - 02:00
Last month it was noted on Phoronix that Canonical's kernel team is looking at folding their low-latency kernel optimizations into their generic kernel builds. Right now Ubuntu maintains a separate "lowlatency" kernel flavor with Kconfig tweaks in the name of low-latency responsiveness as an alternative to their "generic" kernel default, but for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS it continues looking like they'll move forward with this change of incorporating the changes into their default kernel build...

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