With the first rumblings of Meltdown and Spectre malware appearing, it's time to patch our systems against these CPU vulnerabilities. We know these patches will slow our systems down, but, for Linux ...

KDAB, a German consulting firm that develops graphics and visualization tools, has released Hotspot 1.0, a GUI too for visualizing performance data generated by the Linux perf tool. Perf analyzes ...

Novell's fiscal first quarter results were a mixed bag and Linux invoices fell sharply as the company failed to sign big deals. For the first quarter ending Jan. 31, Novell reported non-GAAP earnings ...

Tuning Linux systems for performance is an essential task for any system administrator, but it also is one of the least documented. Without a hard-won understanding, performance tuning often can seem ...

SolydXK is a Debian-based distribution with a choice of Xfce or KDE desktops. Both versions are simple to use and offer dependable and consistent performance. SolydX and SolydK are Debian Buster-based ...

In today's open source roundup: How Netflix checks Linux performance issues. Plus: How to install Unity 8 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. And Google ends support for Chrome on 32-bit Linux, ...

In this video from the Velocity 2015 conference, Brendan Gregg from Netflix presents a 90 minute tutorial on Linux performance tools. There are many performance tools nowadays for Linux, but how do ...

It’s been nearly a year since we last took an in-depth look at viewport performance with the help of SPEC’s SPECviewperf, and with the recent release of its 2020 v3.1 update, we felt now was a good ...

I've been doing some work lately evaluating various Linux desktop environments on low-end hardware. I've put a lot of time into this and I've gotten some interesting results, so I thought I'd share ...

The Linux kernel, the core of any Linux distribution, constantly is evolving to incorporate new technologies and to improve performance, scalability and usability. Every new kernel release adds ...

At only a few years old, Clear Linux hasn’t been around long enough to start appearing in top-ten distro lists all over, but it’s an OS that offers enough uniqueness to warrant a fair look. At a basic ...