As the release date for AMD‘s Zen 5 architecture processors draws near, AMD’s engineers are diligently developing the necessary software adaptations to ensure that these new processors deliver full functionality and robust stability upon...
Following the official release of Linux Kernel 6.7, the testing phase for version 6.8 has commenced. Recently, Linus Torvalds introduced the Linux Kernel 6.8 RC1. Should there be seven candidates in total, the official...
The Linux Kernel 6.8 has received pivotal updates that markedly enhance the performance of the TCP stack, potentially increasing efficiency in handling multiple parallel TCP connections by up to 40%. This enhancement became feasible...
A new threat has emerged, targeting the very core of Linux systems around the globe. This peril, identified as CVE-2023-6817, lurks within the NetFilter subsystem of the Linux kernel, a critical component that governs...
July 29, 2021, marked the final shipment date of the Itanium processor, as Intel bid farewell to this pure 64-bit processor utilizing the IA-64 instruction set. This cessation had been confirmed by Intel as...
If you use an AMD processor, you should promptly update the chipset drivers pushed by AMD, which typically include updates to the BIOS firmware and the fTPM firmware. The AMD fTPM issue causing system...
Linux kernel founder Linus Torvalds posted on the kernel mailing list his idea of removing support for i486 processors. The i486 stands for the Intel 486 processor, which was designed by Intel’s current CEO,...
As part of the kernel changes of Linux version 5.17, the code related to AMD 3DNow! instruction set will be abandoned, and related changes have been submitted. These codes have existed in the Linux...
The Linux system has been preparing a series of patches since February this year to shorten the boot time of the system on AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon platforms. Through these patch improvements, the...
As early as 2019, users reported that there would be problems when using Samsung 860 Evo SATA SSD on Linux systems, but due to the small number of reports, this problem did not attract...
Linus Torvalds submitted and incorporated a change to Linux 5.15 to enable the “-Werror” compiler flag for all kernel builds by default. The “-Werror” compiler flag treats all warnings as build errors, thereby forcing...
At present, the number of hardware platforms that provide accelerated AV1 encoding on the market is still very limited, but as more hardware supporting this royalty-free video codec encoding/decoding comes on the market, the...
For younger computer players, it is estimated that there is not much idea about the IDE interface. Parallel ATA hard drives have also disappeared in the mainstream market for a long time. The PATA...
On July 4, a revised set of patches was submitted to the Linux kernel mailing list. The patch provided support for using Rust as an auxiliary programming language in the Linux kernel. With Rust,...
The search engine giant is trying hard to use Rust code in the Linux kernel, which is a major technological change after only using the C language for decades. Google said on Thursday that...
As the latest long-term support version, Linux 5.10 LTS was only planned to be maintained until the end of 2022 when it was first launched. However, after enough companies intervened to improve and test,...
