RISC-V Business Running Doom On Linux Without A Memory Management Unit
You can add this to the list of things done with Linux because someone figured they could pull it off, as there isn't much of a usage case for a MMU-less system…
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Linux, Making AMD ACPI Response Slower For 20 Years
If you've run into workloads on your AMD powered Linux box that are slower than expected, a fix is on the way to make your life better. There is an ancient workaround…
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Intel Arc A380 On Linux
Phoronix have spent some time with the Intel Arc A380 on the Linux 6.0 core; which is required as is the i915.force_probe module option and Mesa 22.2. You should also ensure to…
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Adding Linux To A Windows Laptop
We are starting to see a few companies such as Dell return to offering laptops which are running Linux, instead of Windows. There are also some Windows laptops which are advertised as…
Read MorePodcast #667 – Threadripper Returns, Apple M1 Ultra, No OC For Ryzen 5800X3D, Nvidia hack badness + MORE!
Nvidia still dealing with hacked data, AMD asks for no OC on their 5800X3D and fixes stuttering due to onboard TPM, Threadripper releases, plenty of Apple M1 Ultra to go around, and…
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Linux Has Been Smoked By A Dirty Pipe
Several pipelines have been in the news lately, but this one is a wee bit different as it refers to the pipelines in Linux used to pass data from one process to…
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Intel Purchases Linutronix To Revive It’s Real Time Linux Kernel
You may not have known that Intel has been working on developing a real time Linux Kernel, but apparently they have been for more than 10 years. They have brought new…
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Humble Bundle’s Hubris, Support For Linux And Apple Ends February 1st
Humble Choice, Humble Bundle's subscription service, will be going through some drastic changes as of February. They are dropping their current three tiers for a single $12/month tier, which does...
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LemonDuck Still Sucks, It’s A Linux And Windows Miner That Isn’t Afraid To Learn New Skills
Lemonduck is not new malware, it has been driving sysadmins nuts since 2019 but some of what it does is rather unique. It started as a cryptocurrency miner which spread...
Read MorePodcast #638 – Steam Deck Announcement – Amazon MMO Bricking GPUs? – Gaming on Linux and MORE!
An Amazon MMO game might be contributing to high end GPU failures, the Steam Deck is on deck tonight and it looks pretty good all around. Linux and ARM seem like they…
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The Terrible Tuesday For Both Linux And Windows Sysadmins
There are a pair of newly discovered vulnerabilities to add to the nightmares of sysadmins everywhere, both those running Windows and Linux infrastructures. In one case it is an issue...
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WireGuard Is Coming To Your pfSense Router
Even after a herculean amount of effort by Wireguard's founder, Jason Donenfeld and developers Kyle Evans and Matt Dunwoodie, WireGuard will not be included in the upcoming release of FreeBSD 13.0. This…
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This Is Your RTX 3080 On Linux
Phoronix received an RTX 3080 to test on Linux and with a quick install of the NVIDIA 455.23.05 beta Linux graphics driver and CUDA 11.1 they were off to the races. The…
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Could Linux Conquer Windows From Within?
An interesting argument about how it could be possible for Linux to conquer Windows and Microsoft was penned recently by open source fan Eric S Raymond and linked to by...
Read MorePC Perspective Podcast #589 – AMD Mini PC, Big Navi
This week we review an AMD-powered Mini PC and a new compact case from Fractal, discuss the latest rumors surrounding Intel's NUC line and AMD's upcoming "Big Navi" graphics, look into issues…
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Lenovo Adds Linux Certification to Full ThinkPad P Series and ThinkStation Lineups
It was almost exactly one year ago that we posted news of Lenovo's 2019 ThinkPad P Series lineup, all of which featured Ubuntu as a configuration option. This week...
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ZFS versus RAID, Comparing Linux Performance Benefits
When you are setting up a storage repository on Linux you have a lot of choice in configurations, more so than on a Windows server. ZFS is a go to for many…
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Get Back Into The Breach
Some people haven't had much luck saving the world in Into The Breach, and not just because the game does not offer any easy victories. If you are one, and part of…
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