Icon version of the Flipboard logo Samba 4.11 Released With Much Better Scalability While Disabling SMB1 By Default - Phoronixphoronix.com - Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 18 September 2019 at 04:14 PM EDT. Add A Comment Samba 4.11 is out as the latest big feature update to this SMB/CIFS/AD implementation for offering better Windows interoperability with Linux and …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoLinux BLK-IOCOST Merged For Linux 5.4 To Better Account For Cost Of I/O Workloads - Phoronixphoronix.com - Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 19 September 2019 at 06:02 AM EDT. Add A Comment The Linux 5.4 block subsystem changes brings the new blk-iocost model. BLK-IOCOST is a new I/O controller by veteran kernel developer Tejun Heo that …
Linux 15 Special Characters You Need to Know for Bashhowtogeek.com - Dave McKay If you want to master the Bash shell on Linux, macOS, or another UNIX-like system, special characters (like ~, *, |, and >) are critical. We’ll help …
Socket 12 ss Command Examples to Monitor Network Connectionstecmint.com - by James Kiarie | Published: September 19, 2019 | September 19, 2019 ss command is a tool that is used for displaying network socket related information on a Linux system. The tool displays more detailed information …
New PPA Lets Ubuntu Users Try ‘exfat’ kernel Module Based on Samsung codeomgubuntu.co.uk - Joey Sneddon A new PPA gives Ubuntu users the opportunity to use an option exFAT filesystem module based on the latest Samsung code. In August Microsoft announced …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoUbuntu A Look At The Speedy Clear Linux Boot Time Versus Ubuntu 19.10 - Phoronixphoronix.com - Written by Michael Larabel in Clear Linux on 16 September 2019 at 02:46 PM EDT. Add A Comment Given the interest last week in how Clear Linux dropped their kernel boot time from 3 seconds to 300 ms, here are some fresh boot time benchmarks of …
Linux How to Recover Deleted Files Using TestDisk in Linuxtecmint.com - by James Kiarie | Published: September 13, 2019 | September 13, 2019 We all know the feeling of looking for a file and not finding it, even in the trash. The trauma that comes with file and data loss should end thanks …
Mobile Technology New Linux malware mines crypto after installing backdoor with secret master passwordTNW - David CanellisCybersecurity researchers have identified a new strain of Linux malware that not only mines cryptocurrency illicitly, but provides the attackers with universal access to an infected system via a “secret
Icon version of the Flipboard logoLinux Kernel Linux 5.4 Cycle To Begin With exFAT Driver, EPYC Improvements & New GPU Supportphoronix.com The Linux 5.3 kernel is expected to be released as stable today and that will mark the opening of the two-week Linux 5.4 merge window. Here is a look …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoLinux Linux 5.3 Kernel Released With AMD Navi Support, Intel Speed Select & More - Phoronixphoronix.com - Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 15 September 2019 at 06:12 PM EDT. Add A Comment Linus Torvalds just went ahead and released the Linux 5.3 kernel as stable while now opening the Linux 5.4 merge window. There was some uncertainty …
Linux AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Benchmarks On 11 Linux Distributions - Phoronixphoronix.com - Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 11 September 2019. Page 1 of 8. Add A Comment Now that BIOS updates over the past month have resolved the early boot issue with Ryzen 3000 processors and thus the new AMD CPUs playing nicely with …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoFirefox Better Flatpak Support For Firefox Appears To Be Coming - Phoronixphoronix.com - Written by Michael Larabel in Mozilla on 12 September 2019 at 07:11 AM EDT. Add A Comment One of the best and most practical use-cases for sandboxed Linux apps via Flatpak or Snaps is certainly web browsers. There has been unofficial …
GNOME GNOME 3.34 Released with “Drastically Improved” Responsivenessomgubuntu.co.uk - Joey Sneddon And it’s here; the new GNOME 3.34 release is now officially available, six months after development first began. And the biggest change on offer in …
Linux Manjaro Linux Just Made A Massive Announcement About Its FutureForbes - Jason EvangelhoSince 2011, Arch Linux-based Manjaro has focused on being a simple-to-use, accessible Linux desktop distribution with a friendly community. Manjaro has become widely available with multiple desktop environments,
Icon version of the Flipboard logoLinux Kernel Facebook Engineer Proposing New Slab Memory Controller For The Linux - Saves Lots Of RAMphoronix.com Roman Gushchin of Facebook's Linux kernel engineering team has proposed a new slab memory controller for the Linux kernel...
Microsoft Office FreeOffice Update Adds .ODT File Saving, Dark Modeomgubuntu.co.uk - Joey Sneddon An updated version of FreeOffice, the free Microsoft alternative for Windows, macOS and Linux, is now available to download and it includes a dark …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoPolling Linux Benchmarks Of NVMe SSD Performance With Varying I/O Polling Queues - Phoronixphoronix.com - Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 5 September 2019 at 09:44 AM EDT. Add A Comment A Phoronix reader recently pointed out a little known kernel tunable option to adjust the number of I/O polling queues for NVMe solid-state drives …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoAdvanced Micro Devices Eventually "Schedutil" Could Replace Linux's Existing CPU Scaling Governorsphoronix.com The Schedutil CPU frequency scaling governor has been around for a few years and has gotten better over time but in our own tests we still find it …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoVisual Studio Code Visual Studio Code Has Surprisingly Huge Linux Use & Other Developer Metrics - Phoronixphoronix.com - Written by Michael Larabel in Clear Linux on 5 September 2019 at 12:09 AM EDT. Add A Comment You may recall that back in July Intel's Clear Linux team was looking for feedback on Linux developer workflows and other developer preferences. This …
Ryzen AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Linux CPU Frequency Scaling Governor Benchmarks - Phoronixphoronix.com - Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 4 September 2019. Page 1 of 4. 1 Comment Given the recent talk about the Schedutil CPU frequency scaling governor and its future along with CPU frequency scaling behavior in general on AMD …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoOpenGL Geometric Picking Finally Lands In GNOME/Mutter 3.34 For Lowering CPU Usage - Phoronixphoronix.com - Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 2 September 2019 at 06:33 PM EDT. Add A Comment In addition to Mutter seeing today an important last minute performance fix for the NVIDIA proprietary driver, Mutter also saw a long-standing …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoLinux Systemd 243 Released With Many Changes - Phoronixphoronix.com - Written by Michael Larabel in systemd on 3 September 2019 at 07:34 AM EDT. Add A Comment Systemd 243 finally shipped this morning as the latest major update to this widely used Linux init system. After seeing release candidates for just …
Linux Mint Converseen – A Simple Graphical Batch Image Converter And Resizerostechnix.com - by sk · Published · Updated August 30, 2019 Here is how the default interface of the Converseen looks like: As you can see, Converseen main interface is pretty simple and mostly self-explanatory. …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoLicensing CUPS 2.3 Printing System Finally Released With Licensing Change & Other Additions - Phoronixphoronix.com - Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 30 August 2019 at 06:32 AM EDT. Add A Comment Nearly three years to the day since the release of CUPS 2.2, the release of CUPS 2.3 that had been delayed more than one year is now available. CUPS …
Firmware New GNOME Firmware Updater App Will Make Linux Firmware Management Easieromgubuntu.co.uk - Joey Sneddon It’s trivial to update firmware on Linux these days thanks to the LVFS, the fwupd tool, and integration within the GNOME Software app (aka Ubuntu …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoLinux The Existing Linux exFAT Code Is "Horrible" But Could Soon Be In Staging - Phoronixphoronix.com - Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 29 August 2019 at 06:53 AM EDT. Add A Comment Following Microsoft's approval of seeing exFAT support on Linux and at long last releasing public specifications to the file-system, the existing …
Icon version of the Flipboard logo Thunderbird 68 Released with New App Menu, Other UI Changesomgubuntu.co.uk - Joey Sneddon Ding, ding: you’ve got mail, and the subject reads: New Thunderbird Release. Yes, a brand new version of the Thunderbird e-mail client is now …
Microsoft Microsoft wants to bring exFAT to the Linux kernelTechCrunch - Frederic LardinoisExFAT, the Extended File Allocation Table, is Microsoft’s file system for flash drives and SD cards, which launched in 2006. Because it was proprietary, mounting these drives and cards on Linux machines
Icon version of the Flipboard logoAdvanced Micro Devices Linux 5.3 Moves Ahead With No Longer Advertising RdRand On Older AMD CPUs/APUsphoronix.com Just prior to yesterday's Linux 5.3-rc6 kernel release, a change was pulled into the code-base that disables the advertising of RdRand support on …
