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Linux 6.13 Rolling Out NVMe 2.1 Support & NVMe Rotational Media
All of the block subsystem changes were sent out today for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel, including a prominent set of NVMe additions...
2024-11-18 13:15
New AMD ERAPS Feature Yields Additional Performance Gains On Zen 5
At the beginning of November I wrote about AMD Linux engineers posting Linux patches enabling a new "ERAPS" feature for Zen 5. ERAPS wasn't talked about by AMD at the Zen 5 launches of the Ryzen 9000 / Ryzen AI 300 series or with the more recent EPYC 9...
2024-11-18 10:54
GCC 15 Compiler Development Shifts From Features To Bug Fixing
GCC 15 feature development is now officially over with entering stage three development to focus on fixing compiler bugs...
2024-11-18 08:54
Raspberry Pi OS Now Defaults To 512MB Swap, Updates Labwc Compositor
With last month's Raspberry Pi OS update they now default to Wayland on all Raspberry Pi models alongside various other operating system improvements. Out today is the latest iteration of the Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS with software updates and other...
2024-11-18 07:02
LLVM Clang 20 Merges Intel Diamond Rapids Support With "-march=diamondrapids"
Following AMX-FP8 support, AMX-AVX512, and other new Intel CPU ISA features being added to the LLVM Clang 20 compiler codebase, the Intel Diamond Rapids target is now upstreamed for allowing "-march=diamondrapids" targeting for these next-generation Xe...
2024-11-18 07:00
DXVK 2.5.1 Released To Fix A Major Regression & Other Bugs
DXVK 2.5 released one week ago with better video memory management handling, various Direct3D additions, and more. DXVK 2.5.1 is out today to fix a "major regression" as well as a few other bugs...
2024-11-18 06:39
Btrfs With Linux 6.13 Delivers Performance Improvements & Other Features
Along with the early Bcachefs pull request for Linux 6.13, SUSE engineer David Sterba submitted all of the Btrfs file-system feature updates in an early pull request for this next kernel version. Btrfs is seeing new performance optimizations and other ...
2024-11-18 06:18
FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 3 Released - FreeBSD Now Publishing OCI Container Images
The third weekly beta release of FreeBSD 14.2 is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable release in early December. Besides a few fixes notable to FreeBSD 14.2-BETA3 is that they are now putting out OCI container images among their releas...
2024-11-18 06:03
Linux 6.13 For ARM64 Brings GCS Support & Protected VMs With Arm CCA
The ARM64 (AArch64) architecture changes have been submitted for the now-open Linux 6.13 merge window...
2024-11-18 05:48
Linux 6.12 Released With Real-Time Capabilities, Sched_Ext, More AMD RDNA4 & More
As expected, minutes ago Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.12 kernel as stable. Linux 6.12 brings many new features, new hardware support, and is rounded out by the fact of expected to become this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version...
2024-11-17 17:22
Linux Fixes Hosts Randomly Rebooting During Virtualization With Ryzen 7000/8000 CPUs
Ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel release expected today there is a last minute "x86/urgent" pull request. Notable with this last minute x86 urgent fixes for Linux 6.12 -- and also to be back-ported to prior kernel versions -- is working around an issue w...
2024-11-17 09:56
Linux 6.13 Adding "slab_strict_numa" SLAB Option For Helping ARM Performance
As part of the SLAB (SLUB) allocator updates pending for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle is a new "slab_strict_numa" option that is reported to further help ARM Linux performance such as for Ampere Computing servers...
2024-11-17 05:55
Archinstall 3.0 Overhauls The Text-Based Arch Linux Installer
Archinstall is the convenient text/CLI-based installer for Arch Linux that allows getting the Linux distribution easily installed in a matter of minutes. Released today is Archinstall 3.0 that overhauls the Arch Linux installer with now using the curse...
2024-11-17 05:33
Rust Coreutils 0.0.28 Delivers Better Performance & Increased Compatibility
Rust Coreutils 0.0.28 "uutils" has been released for this implementation of the GNU Coreutils utilities within the Rust programming language for better memory safety and greater robustness. With the Rust Coreutils 0.0.28 there is increased GNU compatib...
2024-11-17 05:25
Bcachefs Brings Self-Healing Work & Better Reflink Repair For Linux 6.13
Bcachefs has now joined the party of various kernel components sending in preemptive pull requests ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window that is expected to open following the expected Linux 6.12 release on Sunday...
2024-11-16 20:26
Google Engineer Proposes "Page Detective" As New Kernel Debugging Tool
Google software engineer Pasha Tatashin has proposed Page Detective as a new kernel debugging tool that is able to provide greater insight around the usage and mapping of physical memory pages...
2024-11-16 13:21
TUXEDO Computers Relicenses Some Of Their Drivers To GPLv2
Following the proposed patches this week to adjust the Linux kernel's module loader to treat the TUXEDO Computers drivers as proprietary due to being GPLv3 licensed rather than GPLv2 to jive with the rest of the upstream kernel code, some of the TUXEDO...
2024-11-16 09:51
Rustls 0.23.17 Brings More Performance Improvements
Rustls 0.23.17 is out today as the newest version of this modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and a great alternative to the likes of OpenSSL...
2024-11-16 08:37
Linux 6.13 Introducing New Rust File Abstractions
Alongside the VFS pull requests on Friday for case insensitive Tmpfs support and atomic writes for EXT4 and XFS, Christian Brauner also submitted a pull request for introducing some new file abstractions for the Rust programming language within the Lin...
2024-11-16 06:52
GCC 15 Moves C Default Language Version To C23
The GCC 15 compiler on Friday switched its default C language version from the GNU dialect of C17 to the current C23 standard...
2024-11-16 06:39