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The Linux CIFS/SMB3 client updates were merged on Sunday for the Linux 6.0 merge window. Notable with this round of updates is a performance improvement for the multi-channel mode. The …
Linux 6.0 SMB3 Client Code Brings Multi-Channel Performance Improvement Read MoreAlong with his various other pull requests for areas of the kernel he oversees, Greg Kroah-Hartman submitted the Linux 6.0 staging changes this week. Linux’s staging area is where yet-to-be-proven …
Realtek R8188EU Driver Sees “Huge Cleanups” With Linux 6.0 Read MoreValve this evening has begun shipping SteamOS 3.3 to Steam Deck customers as the latest version of their Arch Linux based software stack initially targeting their handheld game console. SteamOS …
SteamOS 3.3 Now Available With Many Improvements For The Steam Deck Read MoreGoogle has promoted Chrome 104 to be stable today as their newest feature update to this leading, cross-platform web browser. Chrome 104 adds support for region capture as part of …
Chrome 104 Released With Region Capture Support, WebGL Canvas Color Management Read MoreLinus Torvalds just released Linux 5.19 as stable for the newest version of the Linux kernel. He also mentioned this is the first time he released the new Linux kernel …
Linux 5.19 Released – Linus Torvalds Released It From An Apple Silicon MacBook Read MoreLinus Torvalds just released Linux 5.19-rc7 following a busy week due to the Retbleed security mitigation and not only the CPU overhead performance impact it puts on users but the …
Linux 5.19-rc7 Released Following A Tough Week With Retbleed, Intel GPU Firmware Snafu Read MoreDue to the new “Retbleed” security mitigation further hurting CPU performance for affected processors, Intel engineers have revised work on call depth tracking mitigation as an alternative to the Indirect …
Retbleed: Call Depth Tracking Mitigation Eyed To Avoid IBRS “Performance Horror Show” Read MoreYesterday Retbleed was made public as a new speculative execution attack exploiting return instructions. While the “good” news is Retbleed only impacts prior generations of AMD and Intel processors, the …
Benchmarking The Linux Mitigated Performance For Retbleed: It’s Painful Read MoreLast year when the Intel Core i9 12900K “Alder Lake” processor launched, Windows 11 was outperforming Linux to much surprise in general but explainable due to some late Linux kernel …
Windows 11 vs. Linux Performance For Intel Core i9 12900K In Mid-2022 Read MoreYesterday’s surprise was that Lennart Poettering had quietly left Red Hat following a decade and a half there leading PulseAudio among other projects and ultimately going on to start systemd …
Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft Read More