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Former Member
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Kernel 4.9.1 is out, and for those who missed it , phoronix has had an extensive test out based on the last RC for 4.9 which shows this release performs in some 'important' areas up to 30% faster, meaning that time saved, can then be used to get more cycles towards crunching (albeit, where my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS was doing 99.9% efficiency with 4.4 through 4.8, it's fractional what additionally was gained under 4.9, but -used- systems would see most benefit).
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Crow-barred 4.9.7 into Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and low and behold, booting was beyond believe so fast. Many goods on the 4.9 kernel, but only now stumbled on a CPUFreq option in the drop-down menu called schedutil, and went to look up what it did: It does well in benchmarks versus P-State: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article...ux-47-schedutil&num=5
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Former Member
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This is the thread I was searching for, but lucine was on strike :(, so it became manual parsing...
Two good pieces which surely are of utility to the Linux aficionado and those who don't like wasting their eyesight: 1) Never knew the recently rediscovered CPUFreq could do so many 'monitoring' tasks: https://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/how-to-use...toring-software-on-linux/ 2) Something which reads like TrueType tuning on Windows: Infinality https://www.maketecheasier.com/improve-font-rendering-linux/ |
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KLiK
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Too bad it doesn't have some GUI... :(
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SekeRob
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Sadly Canonical has decided that the Unity GUI interface is off the development roster... going back to Gnome. For the cloud-buying crunchers with AWS, they meantime released a cloud tuned Ubuntu promising 30% better performance, which of course wont affect actual crunching that much, if at all is me guess. https://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/ubunt...ormance-on-aws-cloud.html
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SekeRob
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As Canonical is dropping Unity8, so have others forked the code to continue this [3rd popular] GUI for Linux... i.e. there's hope.
Has Ubuntu had their LTS releases (Long Term Support) every 2 years, first time I see Firefox has one too, 52.1.0 ESR (Extended Support Release), which moments later was followed by 53.0 which has the graphics apparently broken out [like BOINC has since longer], Quantum Compositor they call it, to further reduce crashing of this browser... 10% less Mozilla claims. Anything that crashing less is mighty fine by me. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/53.0/releasenotes/ |
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SekeRob
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New Linux 4.12 kernel, declared LTS, just crow-barred into my 16.04 LTS. As most always it just runs, and if it breaks, can just boot back into the previous and many previous previous, a dozen or so kept.
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SekeRob
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Run your webbrowser in the sandboxer called FireJail , and you will be saver
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SekeRob
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The easiest way to update/upgrade your Ubuntu install with ZZUpdate
https://www.ostechnix.com/upgrade-ubuntu-single-command/ It even overcomes the half-yearly update stepping and LTS to LTS updating.... LTS to half-yearly too. After install, just Sudo zzupdate Zo Zimple |
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KLiK
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Just made it possible to use nVIDIA cards only for SET@home in Linux, while using MBO video for graphics in Ubuntu. WoW
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