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Installing Ubuntu on WSL in Windows 11 is Now Easier
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) user? If so, you will be pleased to hear that Ubuntu is now available in Microsoft’s new tar-based distro format — no need to use the sluggish Microsoft Store. Canonical announced the news today, noting that “the...
2025-02-05 20:54
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Google Interested In The Modern Intel Xe Linux Kernel Driver On Alder Lake
The modern Intel "Xe" Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver as the clean successor to the i915 driver has been an experimental option for Tigerlake and newer but only for Xe2 graphics (Lunar Lake / Battlemage) and newer is it used by defau...
2025-02-05 20:40
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FIPS 140-3 certified modules now available for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
New deployments should take advantage of the new FIPS 140-3 certified modules available with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
2025-02-05 19:19
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Ubuntu available in Microsoft’s new WSL distribution format
New format in Windows Subsystem for Linux makes adoption easier in enterprise environments by enabling image customization and deployments at scale
2025-02-05 17:21
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Bisecting The Linux 6.14 Performance Regression With System76 Thelio + AMD Threadripper
Yesterday I showcased Linux 6.14 Git performance worse than Linux 6.13 and 6.12 in a number of multi-threaded workloads. Due to that initial discover being on the lone AMD EPYC Turin 2P server that is always busy running through new benchmarks for futu...
2025-02-05 16:30
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NVIDIA Engineer Talks Up sched_ext Linux Scheduler Possibilities At FOSDEM
Merged last year for the Linux 6.12 kernel was sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler possibilities by allowing schedulers to be implemented as eBPF code and dynamically loaded into the kernel. This allows for rapidly developing new schedulers as ...
2025-02-05 14:00
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AMD Announces Open-Source "Schola" Library For Reinforcement Learning
AMD announced today the release of Schola 1.0 as an open-source reinforcement learning library that is being made available under an MIT license and as part of their GPUOpen software collection for helping game developers...
2025-02-05 11:57
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Linux 6.14 Features Include The AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver, NTSYNC, Uncached Buffered I/O & Much More
Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window wrapped up this past weekend with the release of Linux 6.14-rc1, here is a recap of all the great new features, hardware enablement, and other improvements to find with this kernel.
2025-02-05 11:30
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AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation Patches For Linux Updated, Intel RAR Eyed Next
One of the set of patches for the Linux kernel that we have been looking forward to but that wasn't wrapped up in time for the recent Linux v6.14 merge window was the work enabling use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction on Zen 3 CPUs and newer for broadcas...
2025-02-05 10:29
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Linux Foundation Announces The SEAPATH 1.0 Hypervisor
The Linux Foundation by way of their LF Energy initiative announced today the release of SEAPATH 1.0, a security-hardened real-time hypervisor...
2025-02-05 10:05
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Red Hat Developing "F-UKI" For Handling Firmware With Confidential VMs
Red Hat engineer Anirban Sinha presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend in Brussels on F-UKI, a new project being worked on at Red Hat as part of the confidential computing push for loading guest firmware within a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) for confidenti...
2025-02-05 08:55
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Red Hat Developing "F-UKI" As Their Newest Open-Source Project
Red Hat engineer Anirban Sinha presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend in Brussels on F-UKI, a new project being worked on at Red Hat as part of the confidential computing push for loading guest firmware within a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) for confidenti...
2025-02-05 08:55
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New Linux Patches Yield Up To 3.3x Faster AES-CTR Performance On AMD Zen 5 CPUs
Google engineer Eric Biggers is known for some of his great crypto performance optimization patches to benefit the Linux kernel and his most recent patch series is yielding some very tantalizing results for AMD Zen 5 processors whether it be the Ryzen ...
2025-02-05 06:52
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cURL 8.12 Released With Its Rust Hyper Backend Removed
Back in December was word that cURL would be dropping its "Hyper" Rust HTTP back-end due to little demand and lack of developer interest for that experimental code. The cURL 8.12 release is out today with Hyper stripped out...
2025-02-05 06:36
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GNOME Mutter 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, Gdctl Utility
The GNOME Mutter 48 compositor beta is now available for testing as part of this week's GNOME 48 beta milestone...
2025-02-05 06:22
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Mozilla Thunderbird 135 Released with XZ Packaging for Linux Binaries
Mozilla Thunderbird 135 open-source email client is now available for download with XZ packaging for Linux binaries and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Mozilla Thunderbird 135 Released with XZ Packaging for Linux Binaries appeared first on 9...
2025-02-04 22:03
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Microsoft Lands Direct3D 12 Video Encode Improvements For HEVC In Mesa 25.1
While having missed the mark last week for making it into this quarter's Mesa 25.0 release, merged for Q2's Mesa 25.1 release by Microsoft engineers are some enhancements to the Direct3D 12 video encode capabilities...
2025-02-04 20:54
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The role of FIPS 140-3 in the latest FedRAMP guidance
Good news in the US federal compliance space. The latest FedRAMP policy relaxes past restrictions that prevented organizations from applying critical security updates.
2025-02-04 18:30
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Firefox 136 Promises Hardware Video Decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux, Vertical Tabs
Firefox 136 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with hardware video decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux and many other changes. Here’s what to expect! The post Firefox 136 Promises Hardware Video Decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux...
2025-02-04 18:09
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GRUB Continues Working Toward Its Next Release In 2025
As somewhat of an annual tradition for the FOSDEM conference, Daniel Kiper of Oracle presented a status update on the GRUB bootloader. As one of the GRUB maintainers he offers great insight to activity around this most common Linux bootloader...
2025-02-04 16:54
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