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Spectre Mitigations Being Worked On For BPF Programs
A "request for comments" patch series sent out on Monday is working on Spectre mitigations for BPF programs using speculation barriers...
2025-02-26 06:08
Framework Announces Ryzen AI Max Powered Desktop, Framework Laptop 12
Earlier today Framework Computer held a virtual and in-person event to announce their 2nd gen offerings in the form of a mini-ITX desktop powered by the new Ryzen AI Max SoCs, a 2-in-1 convertible laptop with the Framework Laptop 12, and Ryzen AI 300 s...
2025-02-25 20:22
Christoph Hellwig Steps Down From One Of His Kernel Roles Following Rust Drama
Following the recent Rust drama within the Linux kernel that came out in part because Christoph Hellwig expressed objections to Rust bindings for the DMA mapping helpers that he is a maintainer of, Hellwig has now stepped down as one of the DMA mapping...
2025-02-25 18:42
AMD Ryzen 9000 vs. Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake On Linux For Q1-2025 In ~400 Benchmarks
For those wondering how the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" series and Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" desktop processors are battling it out on Linux, here are some fresh benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux with the latest software updates as well as the ...
2025-02-25 10:40
Eight New Security Vulnerabilities Reported Against The X.Org Server & XWayland
Eight new security issues have now been made public around the X.Org Server codebase that also impact XWayland...
2025-02-25 10:39
Rust-Written Zlib-rs Is Not Only Safer But Now Outperforming Zlib C Implementations
Zlib-rs as a Rust programming language implementation of the Zlib file format for better safety is now beginning to outperform the C implementations of the widely-used Zlib...
2025-02-25 06:47
Linux 6.15 Intel Xe Driver Enabling PXP HWDRM, Survivability Mode & GPU + VRAM Temperatures
Complementing yesterday's initial set of Intel graphics driver feature patches planned for Linux 6.15, a drm-xe-next pull request was also submitted to DRM-Next containing a lot of new feature code for the modern Xe kernel Direct Rendering Manager driv...
2025-02-25 06:27
GNOME 48 Mutter Merges Wayland's wp_color_management_v1 Support
As an exciting late addition to the GNOME 48 codebase ahead of its stable release in mid-March, the Wayland color management "wp_color_management_v1" protocol support has been merged!..
2025-02-25 06:07
MythTV 35 Released For This Once Widely-Used Open-Source DVR/PVR Software
The MythTV open-source project is now 22 years old for being this PVR/DVR software for TVs and home theaters. While PVRs/DVRs aren't nearly as popular as they were in the pre Internet streaming era, MythTV continues forging ahead and MythTV 35 is now a...
2025-02-25 05:53
Armbian 25.2 Released With New Boards Supported, Kernel Upgrades
Armbian 25.2 is now available as the newest feature release for this Debian-based Linux distribution focused on providing a great ARM experience as well as a growing number of RISC-V boards...
2025-02-24 17:05
Canonical Rolling Out Improved CLA Process For Ubuntu Contributions
Canonical's Contributor License Agreement (CLA) used for various projects they develop around Ubuntu Linux isn't changing itself, but the process for signing the CLA is being improved upon...
2025-02-24 14:17
Intel Linux Driver Preparing VRSR Support For Battlemage GPUs
To help with idle/suspend scenarios use for Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics processors, a set of patches were posted today for the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver for enabling VRAM Self Refresh "VRSR" support...
2025-02-24 13:18
Jolla Releases Sailfish OS 5.0 With WireGuard VPN, Updated Android Compatibility
For those intrigued by Jolla's Linux-based Sailfish OS mobile phone operating system, Sailfish OS 5.0 is officially out today as the latest iteration of this software stack...
2025-02-24 12:00
Intel Announces Xeon 6500P + Xeon 6700P Processors
After launching the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors last September, today Intel is expanding the family with the launch of the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P server processors.
2025-02-24 11:00
Intel Announces Xeon 6300 Series - Tops Out At 8-Core Xeon 6369P For $545 USD
In addition to announcing the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P processors along with the Xeon 6 SoC (Granite Rapids D), the Xeon 6300 series are also making a quiet debut today. The Xeon 6300 series is in effect the continuation of the Xeon E series but with ...
2025-02-24 11:00
Intel Preps New Performance Optimizations & Features For Linux 6.15 Graphics Driver
In addition to AMD beginning to queue graphics driver improvements for Linux 6.15, Intel open-source engineers are doing the same and this morning sent out their initial feature pull request to DRM-Next of the i915/Xe kernel graphics/display driver imp...
2025-02-24 10:14
MCTP-Over-USB Driver Slated For Linux 6.15
A new driver planned to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle is an implementation of MCTP over USB as defined by the DMTF standard DSP0283...
2025-02-24 08:52
Years In The Making, Intel Timed I/O "TIO" Looks To Finally Land In Linux 6.15
Intel Timed I/O "TIO" has been present on Intel processors going back to 2019 and the Linux driver support has been worked on for several years, but finally this year with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle is this Intel Timed I/O code expected to be merged...
2025-02-24 06:29
Linux's libinput Input Library Finally Supports 3-Finger Dragging
Libinput as the open-source input handling library used by the modern Linux desktop both by Wayland compositors and the X.Org Server now has support for three-finger dragging...
2025-02-24 06:07
Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Now Enables VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64
The newest feature merged this weekend to Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems is support for the VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64 extension...
2025-02-24 06:00