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More Work from Valve on Stability for Linux
From Gaming on Linux, By Liam Dawe: Steam Game Recording was recently released, which came as part of a big Stable Steam Client update that noted it had fixes for “miscellaneous common crashes” on Linux. Now we know a little more on what’s happening behind the scenes. Coming from a blog post from developer Timothée…
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Intel’s Kernel Test Reports 3888.9% Perf Boost
…From changing one line of code! Intel’s Linux kernel test robot has recently reported a 3888.9 per cent performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel after Chipzilla geeks changed one line of code. The test robot highlighted this massive improvement through its “will-it-scale.per_process_ops” scalability test case, running on an Intel Xeon Platinum (Cooper Lake) test…
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Fedora Linux Is Getting a New Installer
The installer for Fedora Linux isn’t perfect. Now, the Fedora team is working on a replacement that aims to be less confusing and more useful. The developers behind Fedora Linux are working on a new interface for the operating system’s ‘Anaconda’ installer, replacing the current design that has stuck around for 25 years. A blog…
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Update WSL 2’s Linux kernel
From PC World, By Thorsten Eggeling: There are many open source programs (aka code that’s accessible to the public) out there for both Linux and Windows. For programs and tools where that’s not the case, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is the ideal solution for using Linux programs on Windows computers. This means that you…
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Intel Prepping Linux For SNC6 With Six Nodes Per L3 Cache
Patches for the Linux kernel over the past week are preparing for an SNC6 sub-NUMA clustering mode. This is the first time I’ve seen patches or mentions of an SNC6 mode compared to SNC 1/2/3/4 modes with existing processors. Sub-NUMA Clustering with Intel Xeon CPUs allows for each compute die to be exposed as its…
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Windows infected with backdoored Linux VMs
A new phishing campaign dubbed ‘CRON#TRAP’ infects Windows with a Linux virtual machine that contains a built-in backdoor to give stealthy access to corporate networks. Using virtual machines to conduct attacks is nothing new, with ransomware gangs and cryptominers using them to stealthily perform malicious activity. However, threat actors commonly install these manually after they…
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