Category Archives: Linux

Building RHEL and RHEL UBI images with mkosi

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Mkosi is a lightweight tool to build images from distribution packages. This article describes how to use mkosi to build images with packages from RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and RHEL UBI. RHEL Universal Base Image is a subset of RHEL that is freely available without a subscription. Mkosi features Mkosi supports a few output […]

Source: LXer – Building RHEL and RHEL UBI images with mkosi

GNOME's €1M Funding Is Help Advance Work On systemd-homed Home Encryption

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While the winter holidays are approaching so far it hasn’t led to any reduced effort in the GNOME camp. In fact, fresh off the €1M in funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund, there are several new exciting initiatives moving forward along with other ongoing enhancements driven by GNOME developers…

Source: Phoronix – GNOME’s €1M Funding Is Help Advance Work On systemd-homed Home Encryption

User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work

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When is a spreadsheet not a spreadsheet? On Call Fridays can often feel like purgatory to prepare for the heavenly weekend, which is why The Register marks the day with a new installment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support torture.…

Source: LXer – User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn’t make ‘Excel’ work

Noctua NH-U14S & NH-D9 Air Cooling For The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X

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For those wondering about the air cooling prospects for DIY builds with the new 350 Watt AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors, here’s a brief look at the new Noctua heatsink options for the Socket sTR5 processors and the results in use with a Threadripper 7980X 64-core / 128-thread workstation.

Source: Phoronix – Noctua NH-U14S & NH-D9 Air Cooling For The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X

How to Install Grafana and Prometheus on Rocky Linux 9

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Grafana is an open-source and multi-platform data visualization platform developed by Grafana Labs. Grafana provides an interactive data visualization web application, which includes charts, graphs, and alerts. In this tutorial, I will install Grafana open-source analytics and visualization web application with Nginx as a reverse proxy. Then, I will install and configure the Prometheus open-source system monitoring with Node Exporter to gather system metrics.

Source: LXer – How to Install Grafana and Prometheus on Rocky Linux 9

[$] Reducing kernel-maintainer burnout

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Overstressed maintainers are a constant topic of conversation throughout
the open-source community. Kernel maintainers have been complaining more
loudly than usual recently about overwork and stress. The problems that
maintainers are facing are clear; what to do about them is rather less so.
A session at the 2023 Maintainers Summit took up the topic yet again with
the hope of finding some solutions; there may be answers, perhaps even
within the kernel community, but a general solution still seems distant.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Reducing kernel-maintainer burnout

Screen Commands in Linux with Examples

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GNU Screen, or screen, is a tool to multiplex a terminal between several processes. With screen, you are able to run multiple session instances from a single terminal session. Let’s go over some useful screen commands in Linux and explain how this versatile tool works. Screen also allows you to close and exit from the terminal session and reconnect later and resume your work. You can continue to work from where you left it, even after logging out from the terminal. In this article, we will show you some useful examples of screen commands in Linux. By the end of this article, you will understand and be able to work with multiple screen sessions using a single terminal session.

Source: LXer – Screen Commands in Linux with Examples

LACT Is The Newest AMD Radeon GUI Control Panel For Linux

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While the open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver is well received by the community, one of the longest sought features has been an official GUI control panel for managing the driver settings and the like under Linux with ease. AMD for their part exposes much of the same tunables available under Windows but is left to just command-line controls or software to poke different ioctls directly. LACT is now the newest open-source option for those wanting an AMD graphics driver control panel for Linux…

Source: Phoronix – LACT Is The Newest AMD Radeon GUI Control Panel For Linux

Atomic Async Page Flips Expected To Land For Linux 6.8

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Following yesterday’s week drm-misc-next pull that added the new Imagination PowerVRM DRM driver, the three patches for atomic DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_ASYNC were queued into drm-misc-next. Now that this atomic async page flip support is in drm-misc-next, next week it should appear in DRM-Next and in turn make it for the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year…

Source: Phoronix – Atomic Async Page Flips Expected To Land For Linux 6.8

Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 2.7 Adds Support for Unified Kernel Image

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Arch Linux’s menu-based installer archinstall has been updated today to version 2.7, a major release that adds some new features and fixes many bugs. Archinstall 2.7 introduces two important features, namely support for unified kernel image (UKI), which is a single executable that can be booted directly from the UEFI firmware, and the ability to check for new versions of archinstall when initiating the Arch Linux installer.

Source: LXer – Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 2.7 Adds Support for Unified Kernel Image