Linux 7.3 merge window kicks off by throwing out two ancient file systems:
Linux 7.3 is dropping support for ancient SGI and Veritas file systems ...
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4 reasons why I paid for Windows 11 Pro and why I'll never switch to Linux: It's not you, Penguin, it's the industry around you
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Key FactsWhy One Author Stays With Windows 11 Pro
2 days ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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- According to the author, Linux still lacks RTX HDR, RTX Video Super Resolution, and DLDSR for his Nvidia GPU.
- Windows Sandbox lets him quickly examine GitHub scripts and suspicious utilities in an isolated Windows environment.
- The author says Windows Hello links biometric authentication with Credential Manager and system-wide stored credentials.
- According to the author, kernel-level anti-cheat effectively excludes Linux from Fortnite, Valorant, Call of Duty, and PUBG.
Windows Sandbox is one feature on Windows 11 Pro that I'll always mention whenever anyone asks me to justify paying for an operating system, because quite frankly, on more than one occasion, the feature alone has paid me back tenfold simply thanks to how useful it is.— Abhinav, the article's author, explaining why Windows 11 Pro is worth it and how Sandbox pays off.
Linux 7.3-rc7 patch packs a slightly strange diffstat with half its code in selftests
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Linux 7.3 is giving my decade-old AMD GPU features it never had on Windows: Linux is doing what Windows won't do.
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Key FactsLinux 7.3 aims to stabilize older AMD GPUs
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- When VRAM is overcommitted, games use CPU RAM too, with data traveling through the slower PCIe bus.
- Under heavy memory pressure, faulty movement between VRAM and CPU RAM can cause deadlocks and game crashes.
- Natalie Vock adjusted drm_exec and TTM so deadlocks are aborted, requests retried, and evictions managed more intelligently.
- The change is intended for Linux 7.3; the article says Windows has similar technology, but not retroactively for older AMD GPUs.
Linux 7.3-rc4 arrives with heavier filesystem patches: Reaching the halfway point in the development cycle, the update features heavy storage component ...
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Linus Torvalds releases Linux 7.3-rc2 with heavy fix volume: Higher-than-usual patch volume across networking, file systems, and graphics drivers could lead to ...
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Linux 7.3-rc1 is a huge release, and now we know just how big these releases can get
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Linux 7.3: Scheduler overhaul increases FPS on older hardware: Intel developer Peter Zijlstra has brought his overhaul of the cgroup scheduler to the merge ...
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Memory shortage: Valve mitigates 8-GiB graphics cards under Linux: On August 17, Valve developer Natalie Vock documented how the Linux kernel better offloads ...
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Linux 7.3: New kernel resolves PCIe 5.0 SSD bottleneck: A Bytedance developer has eliminated a bottleneck for fast NVMe SSDs with a simplified Direct I/O access ...
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AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because ...
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Linux 6.16-rc1 is out: What's new and what does it mean for your system?: Linus Torvalds has closed the Linux 6.16 merge window and released the first ...
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