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Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" Revived After Lowering 70% Performance Hit To 13%

Several years ago Google engineers began exploring address space isolation for the Linux kernel and ultimately proposing Linux ASI for better dealing with CPU speculative execution attacks. While the hope was it would better cope with the ever growing ...

2025-08-12 16:53

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Intel CPU Microcode Updates Released For Six High Severity Vulnerabilities

This Patch Tuesday has brought a slew of Intel CPU microcode updates for the past few processor generations to address six new high severity vulnerabilities...

2025-08-12 13:13

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CodeWeavers CrossOver 25.1 Improves The Stability Of Microsoft Office On Linux

While most Linux gamers are content using Valve's Steam Play (Proton) these days for Linux gaming, a new release of CodeWeavers' CrossOver is now available for enjoying other Windows applications and games on Linux as well as macOS. CrossOver 25.21 enh...

2025-08-12 12:25

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Linux Kernel Patched For AMD SEV-SNP Cache Coherency Vulnerability

This Patch Tuesday the only new security fix merged to the Linux kernel is addressing a vulnerability affecting AMD SEV-SNP secure virtual machines...

2025-08-12 12:17

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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Framework Desktop vs. Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Performance

Last week alongside our Framework Desktop review with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" SoC I posted benchmarks of the Strix Halo performance compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X / 9950X3D socketed desktop processors. For those wondering similarly how th...

2025-08-12 09:33

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Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 Released With Completed 64-bit Support, Rust Ported

Following this weekend's release of Debian 13.0 "Trixie", Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 has been released as the state of Trixie while running atop Hurd rather than Linux...

2025-08-12 09:25

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NVIDIA 580.76.05 Linux Driver Updates EGL Bits, Adds New MetaMode Attribute

Following the NVIDIA 580 Linux beta driver from just one week ago, today NVIDIA issued a new R580 series Linux driver build...

2025-08-12 08:51

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ZLUDA Implements Kernel Cache Support To Help With Performance

ZLUDA as the open-source solution bringing CUDA to non-NVIDIA hardware has been seeing a nice uptick in activity the past several months for its latest take on life. The latest feature merged to ZLUDA is the all-important kernel cache to help with perf...

2025-08-12 08:10

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Itanium IA-64 Support May Revert Back To Being Deprecated/Obsolete For GCC 16

The GCC 14 compiler had marked the Itanium IA-64 code as being obsolete and slated for removal in GCC 15. But then last year the Itanium port was un-deprecated with plans to "support this for some years to come." Now one year later it's back to talking...

2025-08-12 07:37

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Intel Adds Another Battlemage BMG-G21 PCI ID To Their Linux Driver

Intel has introduced another new PCI device ID to their open-source Linux graphics driver stack for signifying another likely product on the way based on the Battlemage BMG-G21 GPU...

2025-08-12 06:35

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Fedora 43 Approved To Ship Hare Programming Language Support, Hardlinking Default

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week approved a number of additional features for the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 release...

2025-08-12 06:21

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Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Increases Wayland Compatibility, UI Enhancements

The beta release of Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" is now available for testing of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base...

2025-08-12 06:06

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Intel Releases LLM-Scaler 1.0 As Part Of Project Battlematrix

Intel today announced their August 2025 Software Update to Project Battlematrix and the release of the LLM-Scaler 1.0 container for optimized AI inference support on Intel Arc B-Series graphics hardware...

2025-08-11 20:27

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Early Linux 6.17 Tests Show Some AMD Strix Halo Performance Improvements & Regressions

Even prior to the Linux 6.17-rc1 release on Sunday I already had kicked off some Linux 6.17 Git benchmarking in being eager to see how the performance is beginning to shape up for this next kernel release that is set to power the likes of Ubuntu 25.10 ...

2025-08-11 15:55

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Updated Inclusive Language Guide Calls Out "Sanity Check", "Hung", "Native Support"

The Linux Foundation's Alliance for OpenUSD "AOUSD" and the Academy Software Foundation "ASWF" announced today an updated Inclusive Language Guide...

2025-08-11 15:38

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Intel Posts Latest Patches For DRM Sharpness Property To Enjoy With Lunar Lake & Beyond

For over a year now Intel has been working on a new DRM sharpness property for making use of Lunar Lake's new adaptive sharpening filter capabilities built into its display engine. This new sharpening filter with Lunar Lake and future SoCs can hep with...

2025-08-11 14:38

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LunarG Announces KosmicKrisp As Vulkan-On-Metal Mesa Driver

While there is already MoltenVK for Vulkan implemented over Apple's Metal graphics API, the graphics engineers at LunarG have announced KosmicKrisp as a Mesa-based driver implementing Vulkan over Metal...

2025-08-11 10:32

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AMD EPYC 4545P Achieves 2.24x The Performance At Half The Power Of The First EPYC CPU

Recently we looked at the performance of the AMD EPYC 4545P that is a 16 core 65 Watt processor in the EPYC 4005 "Grado" series. This is quite an interesting processor for those after low-power servers, edge AI deployments, and other purposes with no s...

2025-08-11 09:10

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Linux Cache-Aware Scheduling / Load Balancing Updated With New Tuning Knob

Intel engineer Chen Yu posted a fresh round of Linux kernel patches working on cache-aware scheduling/load-balancing for this functionality being sought after both by Intel and AMD. The new patches should address some performance regressions observed i...

2025-08-11 08:46

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NFS Client & Server Feature Updates For Linux 6.17

For those making use of the Network File System (NFS), the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel is bringing some nice improvements both for the NFS server and client code...

2025-08-11 08:21

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