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2023’s Gift Ideas
Whether you’re working with a robot dog at your feet, or you’re toasty warm with your motherboard-patterned socks, we hope you have a very happy holiday season. Since 2015, The New Stack has observed our own annual tradition of offering a gift guide for that technical someone in your life. We’ve described it in the… Read more
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How Meta Patches Linux at Hyperscale
Patching Linux is easy. Except when you need to patch tens of thousands of servers without downtime. Here’s how Meta does it. Anyone with a tech clue can patch a Linux server. But, patching thousands of them without any downtime, that’s not easy. At the Linux Plumbers Conference, the invite-only conference of top Linux kernel… Read more
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Who’s On Your Network?
How to Use Nmap on Linux to See Who’s on Your Wi-Fi NetworkThis command can help you track down unwanted network visitors or long-forgotten devices. Key Takeaways:Easily check how many devices are connected to your Wi-Fi router using the Nmap network scanner.You can determine your router’s IP address using the ip route command.Use Nmap with… Read more
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Intel using BOLT for Linux Distros?
Intel Appears On The Verge Of Some Exciting Performance Optimizations For Linux Distros Over the years on Phoronix you’ve likely read an article or two about BOLT that was developed by Facebook/Meta for optimizing the layout of generated binaries. BOLT made it to the mainline LLVM codebase last year with LLVM 14 for helping to… Read more
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Ubuntu: More Performance on Threadripper
With currently reviewing the HP Z6 G5 A workstation powered by the new 96-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX Zen 4 processor, one of the areas I was curious about was how well HP’s tuned Microsoft Windows 11 compares to that of Linux. In this article is looking at how the Microsoft Windows 11 performance… Read more
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Dev Career: What to Avoid
What does the word career mean to you? To me, it is a roller coaster journey during which we find opportunities, progress, and growth in life. The journey involves learning objectives, work, and other personal and professional aspects. A promising career is one where you enjoy most (if not all) of your daily work. You… Read more
