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 ...

I recently posted a somewhat scathing look at the state of gaming on Linux. It took some folks by surprise. As I said in that piece, I’m a Linux advocate but I’m also a critic. However, it would be a ...

I ran the same tests on both sides of my dual-boot and one of them embarrassed the other.

Using Linux doesn't feel like an adversarial process.

AMD and Intel modern processors just got big boosts in performance thanks to various implementations of AES-XTX that help in disk encryption. For example, Windows BitLocker uses AES-XTX-128. Back in ...

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 ...

The sar command can provide detailed system metrics on just about every aspect of system performance. You can query it on as as-needed basis or set it up to provide daily reports. Sar is a system ...

In context: Linux offers developers and engineers a means to "tune" its operations, providing thousands of individual parameters that can adjust how the open-source kernel manages resources. Tuning ...

Microsoft's Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.

Get the latest GPU rendering benchmark results in our more up-to-date Blender 3.6 performance article. It’s time once again to take an in-depth look at CPU and GPU performance in Blender, something we ...