Linux 7.1 is here to end the Intel 486 CPU era - and do some serious legacy clean up ...

Linus Torvalds gave the starting signal for Linux 7.1. In addition to a completely new NTFS driver, the extensive kernel ...

The Linux kernel development team has officially released Linux Kernel 7.1, marking the first major update in the 7.x series.

The company will unveil its top-end Unix server Thursday, marking Big Blue's departure from the industry's assumption that more processors makes a better computer. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

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 ...

Linux is a modern operating system that supports all of the latest technologies, but it's also a legacy-friendly system that dates back to 1991. If it's a computer, you can probably run Linux on it, ...

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In brief: No one really knows when you'll be able to get your hands on a Steam Deck, with shipping dates slipping into the second quarter of 2022. In the meantime, Valve and AMD are working to squeeze ...

I'd like to have my program fork off a bunch of worker threads that use up all the CPUs available. However, if the system is Hyperthreaded, I would like to only fork once per physical CPU. The program ...

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