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New In 2025: Linux Patches Enable PCI Support For The Amiga 4000

Phoronix - Tue, 10/07/2025 - 18:26
For any Amiga 4000 hobbyists running a Linux m68k operating system, a PCI driver was finally published three decades later for Linux. Patches posted for mainline Linux kernel review today enable the Mediator 4000 PCI bridge available for the Amiga 4000 computer from the early 90's...

Loongson Security Engine Support Added To Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Tue, 10/07/2025 - 18:13
Upstreamed for the Linux 6.18 kernel is supporting the Loongson Security Engine chip found on modern versions of these Chinese computing platforms...

Qt 6.10 Released With PipeWire Audio Backend & Many Other Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 10/07/2025 - 18:04
Qt 6.10 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source and cross-platform toolkit...

Linux 6.18 To Support The Red & Green Status LEDs On QNAP NAS Devices

Phoronix - Tue, 10/07/2025 - 17:54
The LED subsystem updates don't tend to be too exciting each kernel cycle but for those with QNAP network attached storage (NAS) devices and wanting to run the mainline kernel, now you can have working red and green status LEDs...

10 MySQL Interview Questions Every DBA Must Know

Tecmint - Tue, 10/07/2025 - 13:00
The post 10 MySQL Interview Questions Every DBA Must Know first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In our previous articles, we’ve covered MySQL interview questions for beginners and intermediate users, and the response has been overwhelming.

The post 10 MySQL Interview Questions Every DBA Must Know first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Fedora 43 Landing Emergency Change To Increase /boot Due To NVIDIA GPU Firmware & Other Bloat

Phoronix - Tue, 10/07/2025 - 08:32
Fedora 43 is working its way toward release in the coming weeks and is now going through a very late change. A change was announced and accepted today for increasing the size of the /boot partition. This is driven by the ever-increasing number of firmware files needed for different devices to function under Linux with open-source drivers. A large motivator to this change was the very large and growing NVIDIA GPU firmware file sizes for Nouveau and the future Nova driver...

Linux 6.18 NFSD To Help With Scalability From Low-Cost Clouds To High-End Servers

Phoronix - Tue, 10/07/2025 - 08:07
The NFS server (NFSD) improvements were merged today for the Linux 6.18 kernel. Most exciting is a new experimental feature that can help with scaling NFSD both for low-end/low-cost servers up through high-end larger server platforms...

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