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Fwupd 1.9.5 Released With Optional Passim Support, Firmware Updating For New Devices

Phoronix - Mon, 09/04/2023 - 18:30
Fwupd 1.9.5 is out today as the newest version of this open-source software for enabling system and peripheral firmware updating under Linux that ties into the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS). With the Fwupd 1.9.5 some additional devices are now supported plus there are some other core improvements...

Armbian 23.08 Released With Work-In-Progress ThinkPad X13s Support, New SBCs

Phoronix - Mon, 09/04/2023 - 18:20
Armbian 23.08 is out as the latest quarterly update to this Debian-based Linux distribution optimized for use on Arm single board computers and other devices...

Partial SMT Enablement Support Lands For Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Mon, 09/04/2023 - 18:03
As part of the "smp/core" changes that were merged last week for the Linux 6.6 kernel, partial SMT enablement landed for processors that support more than two threads per physical core to allow greater run-time control over just how many threads to enable...

9 Best Linux Console File Managers

Tecmint - Mon, 09/04/2023 - 13:09
The post 9 Best Linux Console File Managers first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux console file managers can be very helpful in day-to-day tasks, when managing files on a local machine, or when connected to a remote one.

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How to Install NFS Server and Client on RHEL-based Distributions

Tecmint - Mon, 09/04/2023 - 12:00
The post How to Install NFS Server and Client on RHEL-based Distributions first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In Linux, there are a couple of file-sharing protocols used to share storage and files across a network. The most widely used ones are Samba

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OpenBLAS 0.3.24 Released With Intel Sapphire Rapids Improvements, Apple M2 Detection

Phoronix - Mon, 09/04/2023 - 07:46
OpenBLAS 0.3.24 is now available for this latest open-source BLAS and LAPACK implementation known for its advanced CPU optimizations and extensive tuning for providing for very speedy linear algebra kernels...

EXT4 Lands A Nice Performance Improvement For Appending To Delalloc Files

Phoronix - Mon, 09/04/2023 - 00:24
With the EXT4 file-system updates for Linux 6.6 there is mostly some code clean-ups and other bug fixing. But one change in particular stands out for its performance impact...

Stadia Controller Rumbles & New Gaming Peripherals Supported By Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sun, 09/03/2023 - 22:30
There are new and improved gaming controller and peripheral support to find with the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel...

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