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AT_EXECVE_CHECK Submitted For Linux 6.14 To Help With Consistent Security
In anticipation of the Linux 6.14 merge window opening next week if Linux 6.13 releases as expected this coming Sunday, Google engineer Kees Cook has already sent out pull requests to Linus Torvalds of new feature code he's been aligning for the v6.14 ...
2025-01-16 06:27
Expanding Web Camera Support Among Newer Intel Laptops Planned For Fedora 42
Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede wrote a blog post a few days ago around the Intel IPU6 and newer web camera support still being a challenge on Linux. While various Intel IPU6 open-source code has been upstreamed, there remain differences with a number o...
2025-01-16 06:13
GCC Goes Ahead With The ARM64 ILP32 Deprecation
As a follow-up to the recent news around GCC considering deprecating ARM64 ILP32 support, the free software developers have indeed decided to move ahead in deprecating this 32-bit ABI for ARM64...
2025-01-16 06:02
Fedora 42 Is Looking At Switching To EROFS For Its Live Media
A change proposal filed today for the in-development Fedora 42 is looking at making use of the EROFS file-system for all of the live media images...
2025-01-15 20:35
Tiny Corp Nearing "Completely Sovereign" Compute Stack For AMD GPUs With Tinygrad
George Hotz' Tiny Corp that develops the Tinygrad neural network framework and sells the Tinybox NVIDIA and AMD powered AI workstations is nearing a "completely sovereign" software stack for GPU compute on AMD...
2025-01-15 16:54
Tiny Corp Closing In On "Completely Sovereign" Compute Stack For AMD GPUs With Tinygrad
George Hotz' Tiny Corp that develops the Tinygrad neural network framework and sells the Tinybox NVIDIA and AMD powered AI workstations is nearing a "completely sovereign" software stack for GPU compute on AMD...
2025-01-15 16:49
Intel THC Drivers To Be Submitted For Linux 6.14
The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is poised to introduce support for Intel THC... The Touch Host Controller IP block found in the PCH of modern Intel laptops for dealing with touchscreen, touchpads, and similar functionality...
2025-01-15 14:49
NVMe PCI Endpoint Function Target Driver Coming To Linux 6.14
An interesting new driver set to premiere in the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel is the NVMe PCI Endpoint Function Target code authored by Western Digital...
2025-01-15 10:45
Triple Buffering Support Updated Against Latest GNOME 48 Code
It's been over four years now that the GNOME Mutter pull request has been open for introducing dynamic triple/double buffering support. It's still not clear that it will be ready for merging with GNOME 48 due out in March but at least the patches have ...
2025-01-15 08:45
Linux 6.14 To Bring An Important Improvement For AMD Preferred Core
Being merged back in the Linux 6.9 kernel was AMD Preferred Core support within the amd_pstate driver for being able to communicate the "preferred" cores to the kernel for those that are able to reach a higher maximum frequency or otherwise be preferre...
2025-01-15 07:00
Xen Hypervisor Support Being Worked On For RISC-V
Linux has supported KVM virtualization with RISC-V for several years while now patches are pending to introduce Xen hypervisor support for this CPU architecture for RISC-V guests...
2025-01-15 06:31
libvirt 11.0 Released For Open-Source Virtualization API
Libvirt 11.0 was christened today as the newest version of this open-source Virtualization API for managing VMs on Linux and other platforms while supporting KVM, QEMU, Xen, VMware ESX, LXC, Bhyve, and other hypervisors...
2025-01-15 06:11
LACT Linux GPU Control Panel Adds Support For Intel Graphics
In development for several years has been LACT as a Linux GPU Control Application to allow adjusting various GPU/driver settings via a convenient graphical application. AMD and NVIDIA graphics have been supported to date while now Intel graphics are al...
2025-01-15 03:00
Intel "Performance Tips" Published For Optimal Linux Graphics
Added today to the Mesa documentation for the open-source Intel OpenGL/Vulkan drivers used on Linux systems is a set of "performance tips" for ensuring an optimal Intel Linux graphics 3D accelerated experience...
2025-01-15 00:00
Rsync 3.4 Released Due To Multiple, Significant Security Vulnerabilities
Rsync 3.4 is out today for this widely-used utility for incrementally transferring and synchronizing files between systems. Rsync is widely-used especially for backing up Linux servers in an incremental manner and unfortunately this v3.4 release isn't ...
2025-01-14 20:40
Intel Arc B580 Linux Graphics Driver Performance One Month After Launch
Yesterday I looked at how the Intel OpenCL GPU compute performance evolved for the Arc Graphics B580 in the one month since that first Battlemage graphics card premiered. There were nice Intel GPU compute optimizations merged over the past month to imp...
2025-01-14 15:47
GNOME 48 Desktop Introducing An Official Audio Player: Decibels
The modern GNOME desktop hasn't had a core application to playback audio files although many different audio/multimedia players exist. But now for the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop release, there is now a promoted core app for audio playback: Decibels...
2025-01-14 12:19
GCC Developers Consider Deprecating ARM64 ILP32 Support
ARM64 ILP32 is the Armv8 architecture with a 32-bit ABI rather than 64-bit -- akin to the "x32" x86 effort that never really took off on Linux. ARM64 ILP32 support never ended up making it into the mainline Linux kernel or GNU C Library but did appear ...
2025-01-14 11:01
Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support Still Poses A Challenge For Linux Laptops
Back in 2022 there were Linux kernel developers like Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman recommending that Intel Alder Lake laptops be avoided. This was due to the Intel web camera support in those new-at-the-time laptops yet to be properly up...
2025-01-14 10:11
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands More Performance Optimizations Ahead Of The B570
It's not only the Intel GPU compute stack seeing some nice improvements recently but over with the Mesa 25.0-devel code for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver there have been some new performance optimizations arriving this week...
2025-01-14 06:55