Category: Linux
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“Dammit. Case sensitivity is a BUG. The fact that filesystem people still think it’s a feature, I cannot understand. It’s like they revere the old FAT filesystem so much that they have to recreate it – badly.
Hint: ❤ and ❤️ are two unicode characters that differ only in ignorable code points. And guess what? The cray-cray incompetent people who want those two to compare the same will then also have other random – and perhaps security-sensitive – files compare the same, just because they have ignorable code points in them.”
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjajMJyoTv2KZdpVRoPn0LFZ94Loci37WLVXmMxDbLOjg@mail.gmail.com/
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“Unlike Kpatch and Ksplice, which patch the running kernel without rebooting, Live Update Orchestrator takes a hybrid approach. While it requires a reboot, it focuses on keep critical devices running, which minimizes the side effects of the update.”
- Google is developing Live Update Orchestrator, a new system for updating the Linux kernel with minimal downtime.
- This technology is focused on cloud environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated without completely interrupting running virtual machines.
- Live Update is a specialized reboot process that keeps certain devices operational through kernel transitions.
- A new device infrastructure (dev_liveupdate) is introduced to integrate with the Live Update Orchestrator system.
https://en.hwlibre.com/Google-develops-Live-Update-Orchestrator-for-Linux-kernel-hot-updates/
The Linux Kernel Patch: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250320024011.2995837-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com/
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“If the discard mount option is enabled, the file’s clusters are discarded when the clusters are freed. Discarding clusters one by one will significantly reduce performance. Poor performance may cause soft lockup when lots of clusters are freed.
This commit improves performance by discarding contiguous clusters in batches.”
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Fedora Linux 42 Beta has officially landed, and it’s packed with a ton of awesome changes. This release gives KDE Plasma Desktop full edition status, introduces the COSMIC spin, and rolls out Fedora Asahi Remix 42 Beta for Apple Silicon Macs. There’s also a big refresh to the Anaconda installer, improvements to DNF5, and a […]
Fedora Linux 42 Beta is here with KDE edition, COSMIC spin, Asahi Remix, and major updates -
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As always Phoronix.com is among the first to test drive new hardware.
“On a geo mean basis for this wide span of hundreds of benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D is slightly faster than the 9900X and still around 7% faster overall than the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake desktop processor. Compared to the Ryzen 9 7900X3D, is 1.25x the performance as a nice generational improvement.”
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Now, with full code ported from C++ to Rust
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