Blosc (c-blosc2) is a high performance compressor focused on binary data for efficient storage of large binary data-sets in-memory or on-disk and helping to speed-up memory-bound computations…
Source: Phoronix – Blosc Compressor Adds AVX-512 Bitshuffle: 20% Faster Compression For Zen 4 X3D CPU
Category Archives: Linux
MariaDB Foundation CEO claims 'sanity' has returned to MariaDB plc
Kaj Arnö mulls cash crisis, de-listing threat, job cuts, and strategy rewrite at commercial MySQL purveyor. Exclusive “We saw the dark clouds for a long, long while,” MariaDB Foundation CEO Kaj Arnö told The Register.…
Source: LXer – MariaDB Foundation CEO claims ‘sanity’ has returned to MariaDB plc
Help, Android 14 ate my Pixel! Bug causes endless reboots, loss of storage access
Fix on the way but for those trapped in boot loop hell, data recovery isn’t certain. Google has confirmed that some people’s Pixel devices have lost access to local storage or become trapped in reboot loops after applying the Android 14 software update.…
Source: LXer – Help, Android 14 ate my Pixel! Bug causes endless reboots, loss of storage access
Linux 6.7 Boasts Some Scheduler Improvements & Intel IBRS Mitigation Change
Linux 6.6 saw EEVDF merged and Intel hybrid cluster scheduling re-introduced. The core scheduler improvements merged this past week for the in-development Linux 6.7 isn’t quite as exciting but still there are some healthy scheduler improvements this round…
Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Boasts Some Scheduler Improvements & Intel IBRS Mitigation Change
Mesa's Rusticl Adds cl_khr_gl_sharing For Advancing OpenGL/OpenCL Interoperability
Mesa’s Rust-based OpenCL implementation “Rusticl” has added initial support for the cl_khr_gl_sharing extension for working on OpenGL and OpenCL interoperability…
Source: Phoronix – Mesa’s Rusticl Adds cl_khr_gl_sharing For Advancing OpenGL/OpenCL Interoperability
How to Install and use SAR on Linux
System Activity Reporter or SAR is a program utility for analyzing Linux system performances. SAR measures CPU activity, memory paging, network issues, process and thread allocation, etc. Wondering how to install and use SAR on Linux? Don’t worry, our extensive step-by-step guide is here to to show you. Read on and find out more!
Source: LXer – How to Install and use SAR on Linux
New AMD & Intel Sound Support Ready For Playback In Linux 6.7
The Linux 6.7 sound subsystem changes submitted this week by maintainer Takashi Iwai include support for a number of new audio devices/platforms…
Source: Phoronix – New AMD & Intel Sound Support Ready For Playback In Linux 6.7
Mesa 24.0 Improving Radeon VCE/UVD Video Encoding Quality
Recently there was some tuning in Mesa Git for helping with higher quality Radeon video encoding on Linux for GPUs using Video Core Next (VCN). Similar tuning has now been back-ported for older Radeon GPUs using the VCE encode engine and UVD video decoding…
Source: Phoronix – Mesa 24.0 Improving Radeon VCE/UVD Video Encoding Quality
Linux 6.7 Reducing The Roles For Some Insecure/Obsolete Crypto Algorithms
The crypto subsystem updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel includes the usual churn like various crypto acceleration updates for different SoCs and other routine changes plus is also limiting the role of some insecure and/or obsolete crypto hashing algorithms…
Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Reducing The Roles For Some Insecure/Obsolete Crypto Algorithms
KDE Plasma 6 Alpha Approaches Next Week With The Soft Feature Freeze
The KDE Plasma 6 Alpha release is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 8 November, along with the soft feature freeze for Plasma 6.0 at that time…
Source: Phoronix – KDE Plasma 6 Alpha Approaches Next Week With The Soft Feature Freeze
Install and Use Kvantum Themes in KDE Plasma
Learn how you can install and use Kvantum themes in any KDE Plasma desktop.
Source: LXer – Install and Use Kvantum Themes in KDE Plasma
Revamped Raspberry Pi OS boasts Wayland desktop and improved imager tool
Complete rebuild of Debian distro optimized for diminutive computer. Raspberry Pi OS has undergone more than a modest version upgrade including a new set of tools for writing it to a bootable SD card.…
Source: LXer – Revamped Raspberry Pi OS boasts Wayland desktop and improved imager tool
After A Delay, ISA Drivers Will Be Kept Around Until FreeBSD 15
FreeBSD 14.0-RC4 was issued today and as a last minute change they have decided to keep (non-PNP) ISA and GIANT-locked drivers around until FreeBSD 15…
Source: Phoronix – After A Delay, ISA Drivers Will Be Kept Around Until FreeBSD 15
How to Install BookStack on Debian 12
BookStack is a simple and self-hosted platform for storing and organizing information. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through the installation process of BookStack on the Debian 12 server
Source: LXer – How to Install BookStack on Debian 12
How to Install Netdata Monitoring Tool on Debian 12
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Netdata on Debian 12. Netdata is an open-source tool to collect metrics per second as well as in real time.
The post How to Install Netdata Monitoring Tool on Debian 12 appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – How to Install Netdata Monitoring Tool on Debian 12
Intel Updates Its Packaged Arc Graphics Driver For Ubuntu
Last year Intel made available a packaged “Arc Graphics Driver” for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and later Ubuntu 23.04 to provide a DKMS-backported kernel driver and packaged Mesa driver to make it easier to use Arc Graphics (DG2/Alchemist) during the phase when the upstream kernel support was still stabilizing and not yet found out-of-the-box on Linux distributions at the time. This week marked another rare update for this packaged driver…
Source: Phoronix – Intel Updates Its Packaged Arc Graphics Driver For Ubuntu
Two Methods to Install TeXworks on Linux Mint 21
Guide on how to install TeXworks on Linux Mint 21 utilizing APT with TeXworks LaunchPAD PPA for the latest stable or upstream release or with Flatpak and Flathub.
Source: LXer – Two Methods to Install TeXworks on Linux Mint 21
How to Install Suricata IDS/IPS on Debian 12
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Suricata on Debian 12 step by step. We will also show you how to configure Suricata and manage Suricata rule sets with the suricata-update utility.
The post How to Install Suricata IDS/IPS on Debian 12 appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – How to Install Suricata IDS/IPS on Debian 12
How to Install BookWyrm on a Rocky Linux 9 server using Docker
BookWyrm is an open-source federated social network for book readers. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install BookWyrm on a Rocky Linux 9 server.
Source: LXer – How to Install BookWyrm on a Rocky Linux 9 server using Docker
You Can Now Upgrade from Ubuntu 23.04 to Ubuntu 23.10, Here’s How
Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) users can now finally upgrade their systems to the latest Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) release. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on how to perform the upgrade!
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Source: Linux Today – You Can Now Upgrade from Ubuntu 23.04 to Ubuntu 23.10, Here’s How