Discover 5 powerful Linux features to fine-tune your system for maximum performance, including CPU governor settings, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linux has long provided an outstanding operating system for a wide range of users in a variety of settings. However, high-performance computing users, who must run applications on thousands of nodes, ...

So I read the Arstechnica Article on the updated drivers for the ARC 750 improving performance, but about gaming on Linux? I use that OS for gaming and here I am planning out my new build for later ...

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, ...

A wave of linux clustered machines has been anticipated since 1994, when the Goddard Space Flight Center produced the first Beowulf cluster. But only recently have the tools become available for the ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Linus Torvalds released the Linux 5.1 kernel update on May ...

Windows and Linux are often compared for how they handle things at the OS level. Performance, overall stability, and compatibility often dominate the conversation, but one thing that isn't compared as ...