Patches Published Speed Up Linux Kernel Assembly 50%-80%

Ingo Molnar, the well-known Linux kernel developer and author of CFS Task Scheduler (Completely Fair Scheduler), proposed for discussion in the Linux kernel development mailing list, a series of patches affecting more than half of all the files in the kernel source. The series provides an increase in the total rebuilding core speed 50-80% depending […]

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How to Install XanMod Kernel on Fedora 35

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install the latest XanMod Kernel on your Fedora operating system.
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Linux Mint 20.3 Beta Is Now Available for Download

Linux Mint 20.3 was unveiled in early October 2021 and it’s scheduled for release near the Christmas holidays. The Linux Mint team already shared some of the new features coming to this update in the Linux Mint 20 series, which is based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system series and supported for […]

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Rust Advances to Become the Second Language of the Linux Kernel

Rust is called to do great things, to the extent that it has been proposed that Linux be rewritten, at least partially, in said programming language. Linus Torvalds did not close the door to this possibility, but the creator of the kernel, who is not very disruptive, showed some skepticism about how the technology from Mozilla would work […]

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The December 2021 Issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the December 2021 issue. In the December 2021 issue: Paul’s 2021 Holiday Gift Guide Inkscape Tutorial: Speckled Text Online game Stores For PCLinuxOS Short Topix: Linux Kernel 5.15 Gets Improved NTFS Driver, LTS Designation Repo Review: FF Multi Converter David’s Top 10 Holiday Gift […]

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The December 2021 Issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the December 2021 issue. In the December 2021 issue: Paul’s 2021 Holiday Gift Guide Inkscape Tutorial: Speckled Text Online game Stores For PCLinuxOS Short Topix: Linux Kernel 5.15 Gets Improved NTFS Driver, LTS Designation Repo Review: FF Multi Converter David’s Top 10 Holiday Gift […]

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Get Better Desktop Responsiveness Under Heavy CPU Load Using CFS Zen Tweaks

CFS Zen Tweaks is a bash script and systemd service that tweak the Linux CPU scheduler for better desktop responsiveness when under heavy CPU utilization. The default kernel settings are not tweaked for desktop usage, with high throughput being prioritized over latency, notes the CFS Zen Tweaks author. This results in a less responsive desktop […]

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Linux Kernel 5.14 Reached End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux 5.15 LTS

Linux kernel 5.14 was released almost three months ago, on August 30th, 2021, in celebration of Linux’s 30th anniversary, and it introduced quite some interesting features, starting with better protection against those pesky Spectre vulnerabilities and continuing with much-enhanced support for AMD GPUs. Today, November 21st, renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release […]

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Coming more than five months after Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 is the fifth maintenance update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and brings various new features to RHEL’s web console, such as live kernel patching without using the command line tooling and enhanced performance metrics to help you identify […]

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10 Interesting & Fun Facts about Linux

Today, the Linux operating system powers supercomputers, bullet trains, Hollywood films, submarines, International Space Station, the New York Stock Exchange, and so on. However, the birth and journey of Linux have many thought-provoking and amazing fa…

Linux 5.15 Released, This is What’s New

What better way to kickstart a brand new month than with a brand new Linux kernel. Yes, Linux 5.15 is now officially released. Announcing the new kernel’s arrival on the Linux Kernel mailing list Linux founder Linus Trovalds writes: “The last wee…

How to Install Linux Kernel 5.14 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Released at the end of August 2021, Linux 5.14 is the most recent kernel branch available for GNU/Linux distributions, and, now that Linux kernel 5.13 reached end of life, you might want to upgrade your computers to this newer release that brings better hardware support and many other new features. Why install Linux kernel 5.14? […]

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GNU Coreutils 9.0 Are Here in the Year and a Half After the Previous v8.32

The GNU Core Utilities has announced the release of version 9.0 of the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities used by the GNU operating system and various Linux distributions. These are the core utilities which are expected to exist on every…

Google Will Move to Develop Innovations for Android in the Main Linux Kernel

At the last Linux Plumbers 2021 conference, Google spoke about the success of the initiative to move the Android platform to use a regular Linux kernel instead of using its own version of the kernel, which includes changes specific to the Android platf…

Linux Kernel 5.13 Reaches End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 5.14

Released on June 27th, 2021, Linux kernel 5.13 was one of the bigger releases in the Linux 5.x series with over 16,000 commits contributed by more than 2000 developers. It introduced initial FreeSync HDMI support for AMD GPUs, initial support for Apple’s M1 processor, and support for the Landlock security module. On September 18th, 2021, […]

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Linux Kernel 5.15 RC1 Brings Better NTFS Driver, More Apple M1 SoC Support

Linux Kernel 5.15 RC1 is released for testing, and it brings some interesting support and updates. In this post, we round up the important features of this Kernel release.
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Kernel 5.14: 30 Years in the Making and Still Improving

With an ever-increasing interest in more modern hardware support, and a more reliable kernel that is thoroughly tested, contributions by Collabora’s developers continue helping make this a reality for the Linux kernel.
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Linux Kernel 5.14 Released, This is What’s New

Linux Kernel 5.14 has been released. Announcing the latest kernels arrival on the Linux Kernel mailing list Linux founder Linus Torvalds couldn’t resist acknowledging the exuberant attention his ‘hobby’ project has received for its 30…

Intro to Kernel and Userspace Tracing Using BCC, Part 1 of 3

This is part 1 of a three-part series, the goal of which is to provide a brief introduction on BCC and how to get started using it to trace kernel and userspace applications. This page is written assuming the reader isn’t familiar with Linux tracing. So, as a general introduction, we’ll first briefly go over […]

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Paragon’s NTFS3 Driver is About to Become A Part of the Linux Kernel

Paragon’s NTFS3 driver fully supports reads and writes and many other features not found with the existing Linux driver. This new driver is much better off for those needing to deal with Microsoft NTFS file-systems from Linux.
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