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Tmpfs Adding Case Insensitive Support For Wine / Steam Play & Flatpaks

In addition to the EXT4 and XFS atomic write support, another interesting pull request sent in today by Microsoft's Christian Brauner is adding case-insensitive file/folder support for the Tmpfs file-system to benefit use-cases like Wine / Steam Play c...

2024-11-15 13:44

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Linux 6.13 To Expand Atomic Write Support To EXT4 & XFS

Prominent Linux developer Christian Brauner with Microsoft has begun sending out various pull requests of VFS feature changes for the imminent Linux 6.13 merge window. One of the interesting early pull requests is the VFS untorn writes series with gett...

2024-11-15 11:41

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Linux 6.13 Very Exciting With New Feature Code For AMD EPYC Zen 5, Intel Panther Lake

While Linux 6.12 should be out this weekend with its many exciting features, following that will mark the start of the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle with what will be the first stable kernel release of 2025... Already there is a lot of exciting feature work ...

2024-11-15 10:49

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GNOME Mutter Switches To High Priority KMS Thread To Avoid Crashes

The GNOME Mutter compositor has switched its KMS thread priority from a real-time value over to high priority to workaround a situation where the GNOME Shell / Mutter could crash or see its process killed...

2024-11-15 09:46

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Linux 6.12 Preps For Release With Real-Time, Sched_Ext, Stable Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5

The Linux 6.12 kernel is expected to be released this coming Sunday, 17 November, barring any last minute issues that would force the stable kernel to be diverted to the following Sunday. Linux 6.12 is delivering many exciting new features and beyond t...

2024-11-15 09:30

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Google Posts Patches Further Speeding Up Linux Async Device Suspend & Resume

Google engineer Saravana Kannan has posted a set of patches to better optimize async device suspend and resume handling within the Linux kernel. With thesep atches there are "significant improvements" to async device suspend/resume with testing being d...

2024-11-15 08:25

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AMD Releases ZenDNN 5.0 For Deep Neural Network Library Optimized For Zen 5 EPYC

AMD ZenDNN 5.0 was rolled out this morning as the newest version of this deep neural network library that is compatible with Intel's oneDNN APIs and infrastructure. ZenDNN 5.0 is now optimized for AMD Zen 5 processors such as the EPYC 9005 series. ZenD...

2024-11-15 06:50

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GCC 15 Adds Option For Arm Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Code Generation

GCC 15 feature development is soon wrapping up to focus on bug fixing before releasing GCC 15.1 as stable in the early months of 2025. One of the latest features to make it in the compiler codebase is code generation support around Arm Guarded Control ...

2024-11-15 06:39

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Linux Patches Add Support For New "Phone Link" Hotkey On Latest ThinkPads

Patches posted on Thursday for the Linux kernel add support for the newest hotkey being found on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops... The "Phone Link" hotkey for launching the Microsoft Phone Link software for linking your Android/iOS smartphone to your laptop. ...

2024-11-15 06:23

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SDL3 Improves Steam Controller Support, Now Enabled By Default

A number of Steam Controller improvements have been merged for SDL, this widely-used hardware/software abstraction layer that is common to cross platform games. Among the latest Steam Controller improvements in SDL are enabling the support by default...

2024-11-15 06:08

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Khronos SYCL Being Updated To Increase Appeal For HPC & Scientific Computing

In addition to the release today of OpenMP 6.0 ahead of the SC24 supercomputing conference in Atlanta, over at The Khronos Group they have provided an update on upcoming SYCL improvements to benefit high performance computing (HPC) and scientific compu...

2024-11-14 19:00

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OpenMP 6.0 Released With An Emphasis On Easier Parallel Programming

The OpenMP Architecture Review Board announced from SC24 that OpenMP 6.0 is now available as a major upgrade to the OpenMP specification for multi-process programming within C / C++ / Fortran. A big emphasis on OpenMP 6.0 is making it easier for develo...

2024-11-14 13:02

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Upstream Linux Developers Take Aim At TUXEDO's Out-Of-Tree GPLv3 Drivers

A new patch series posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list would block kernel modules/drivers from TUXEDO Computers from accessing GPL-only symbols in the kernel...

2024-11-14 12:10

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Supermicro H13SSL-N For AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" 1P Servers

While it's difficult still finding Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" motherboards/servers widely available at Internet retailers/distributors, when it comes to the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors that launched just last month, there is better availability...

2024-11-14 10:52

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Enters Beta With Many New Features & Updates

The first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) was released on Wednesday with a wide variety of new/updated packages, new features, and other changes over RHEL 9...

2024-11-14 10:26

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AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver To Be Merged For Linux 6.13

Last month AMD Linux engineers posted patches for a 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for Linux that allows the user to communicate their cache vs. frequency preference depending upon workload and for the 3D V-Cache processors where some CCDs have the larger...

2024-11-14 08:39

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Linux 6.13 To Tune Intel Granite Rapids For Better Performance Out-Of-The-Box

A patch queued yesterday ino the Linux power management subsystem's "linux-next" branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window will tune Intel Xeon Granite Rapids processors for better performance out-of-the-box...

2024-11-14 07:02

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Linux To Allow Disabling TPM PCR Integrity Protection Due To Performance Bottleneck

Linux 6.10 introduced TPM bus encryption and integrity protection for enhancing the Trusted Platform Module support to protect against interposers from compromising them with TPM sniffing attacks. There is now a new option being added to opt-out of thi...

2024-11-14 06:35

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Intel Touch Host Controller "THC" Driver Support Being Worked On For Linux

The newest Linux driver being developed by Intel is for the Touch Host Controller (THC) as a new high performance input tech for enhancing touch screen, touch pad, and stylus input handling...

2024-11-14 06:20

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Bcachefs Squeezes More Fixes Into Linux 6.12

Ahead of the expected final Linux 6.12 stable kernel release this weekend, a last round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted today for this next kernel version...

2024-11-14 06:07

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