Category Archives: Linux

AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Spun Up An Eighth Time

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While the AMD P-State driver is working quite well for Ryzen systems already with the default on Linux 6.5, one of the additions we are still waiting to land is the AMD “Preferred Core” functionality. An eighth version of those patches were posted on Monday for inching this feature closer to the mainline kernel…

Source: Phoronix – AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Spun Up An Eighth Time

TuxClocker 1.1 Released With Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring, NVML Fan Control

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Following the release last month of TuxClocker 1.0 as a GUI overclocking solution currently for NVIDIA graphics cards on Linux, this years-in-development open-source utility is up to version 1.1 and with some new capabilities…

Source: Phoronix – TuxClocker 1.1 Released With Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring, NVML Fan Control

ATO 2017 – Comfortably In the Groove

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Between now and the opening of All Things Open 2023 on October 15, which will begin the conference’s second decade, FOSS Force is each day taking a look at an individual year in ATO’s history. In today’s article we’re looking at All Things Open 2017, which was the conference’s fifth outing.

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Source: FOSS Force – ATO 2017 – Comfortably In the Groove

Benchmarks: AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Performance Boosted With Ubuntu 23.10

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With Ubuntu 23.10 due for release on Thursday, I’ve been benchmarking a number of systems to look at the Ubuntu 23.10 performance against prior releases like Ubuntu 23.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Besides the open-source graphics driver performance for Intel and AMD Radeon graphics always being a stand-out improvement, one area that is particularly exciting with Ubuntu 23.10 is for those with newer AMD processors where there are some nice performance gains to find with this new Ubuntu Linux release. Here are side-by-side benchmarks of an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X desktop along with an Intel Core i9 13900K desktop while testing Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS / Ubuntu 23.04 / Ubuntu 23.10.

Source: Phoronix – Benchmarks: AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Performance Boosted With Ubuntu 23.10

Incus 0.1 released

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The Linux Containers project has
announced
the release version 0.1 of the Incus system container and
virtual-machine manager, which is a community-led fork of Canonical’s LXD. Incus 0.1 “is roughly
equivalent to LXD 5.18 but with a number of breaking changes on top of the
obvious rename“. There have been some changes made in the two months
since the fork:

With this initial release of Incus, we took the opportunity to remove a lot
of unused or problematic features from LXD. Most of those changes are
things we would have liked to do in LXD but couldn’t due to having strong
guarantees around backward compatibility.

Incus will be similarly strict with backward compatibility in the future,
but as this is the first release of the fork, it was our one big
opportunity to change things.

That said, the API and CLI are still extremely close to what LXD has,
making it trivial if not completely seamless to port from LXD to Incus.

There is an online
version of Incus for those interested in giving it a try.

Source: LWN.net – Incus 0.1 released

[$] Rethinking multi-grain timestamps

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One of the significant features added to the mainline kernel during the 6.6
merge window was multi-grain timestamps, which allow the kernel to
selectively store file modification times with higher resolution without
hurting performance. Unfortunately, this feature also caused some
surprising regressions, and was quickly ushered back out of the kernel as a
result. It is instructive to look at how this feature went wrong, and how
the developers involved plan to move forward from here.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Rethinking multi-grain timestamps