With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel the necessary changes to the AMD P-State driver are set to land for properly supporting the upcoming AMD Ryzen client processors based on the Zen 6 cores. The AMD ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. The latest Linux kernel has made the Time Stamp Counter (TSC) a hard requirement for x86 processors, ending decades of compatibility code that allowed the ...

Linux 7.3 commit flattens cgroup scheduling to a single runqueue and adds new cgroup weight modes. Minimum FPS jumped ~7x (4→29), average FPS rose, and max frame latency fell sharply, smoothing ...

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RIP, 486 processor. You've had a long run since Intel released you back in 1989. While Microsoft stopped supporting you with the release of Windows XP in 2001, Linux kept you alive and well for ...

Why it matters: The Linux kernel includes an ancient trick to deal with possible incompatibilities in early ACPI implementations. Nowadays, the trick isn't needed and just makes thing worse for AMD ...

Unix and later Linux, inherited some of Multics' features, such as the single directory tree, a kernel that's protected from ...