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Linux 6.16-rc3 Released: Various Bug Fixes While Bcachefs Changes Not Pulled

Linus Torvalds just announced the release of Linux 6.16-rc3 in marching toward the Linux 6.16 kernel release due out around late July...

2025-06-22 16:52

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More Intel TDX Code Merged For KVM In Linux 6.16

Merged minutes ago ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc3 release due out shortly was this week's batch of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) updates. Beyond the usual KVM fixes merged for the week, a bit of feature code was pulled in by Linus Torvalds for this p...

2025-06-22 16:18

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Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20%

While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a 20...

2025-06-22 09:27

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ReactOS 0.4.15 Released For This "Open-Source Windows" OS With Tons Of Enhancements

It's been over three years since the last ReactOS open-source operating system release for this platform working on API/ABI compatibility with Microsoft Windows. Today ReactOS 0.4.15 was finally published...

2025-03-21 13:12

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Linux Security Hardening Cache Randomization Was Inadvertently Using The Same Seed

Ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle a few early pull requests have already been sent in to Linus Torvalds in advance of the anticipated v6.14 release on Sunday. Among those early changes for Linux 6.15 are the SLAB allocator updates that incl...

2025-03-21 12:08

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New Intel/AMD GPU Features, Apple Touch Bar Drivers & Other Likely Changes For Linux 6.15

With the Linux 6.14 stable kernel likely debuting on Sunday, the Linux 6.15 merge window will then open for kicking off the next development cycle. There's a lot of exciting changes and new features building up ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window...

2025-03-21 10:52

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Raspberry Pi Announces rpi-image-gen To Help Craft Custom Software Images

Following a slew of hardware announcements in the past few months like the RP2350 shipping, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, Raspberry Pi Monitor, and Raspberry Pi 500, today they have a new software announcement. Today they formally announced "rpi-image-gen" as a...

2025-03-21 09:45

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Linux 6.14 Sees Last Minute Fix For A Two Year Old Regression Causing A 30% Performance Drop

Submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.14 stable release expected Sunday is a lone scheduler fix for the kernel. This patch is for reverting a change made to the Linux kernel two years ago that ended up regressing some workloads with a significant perfor...

2025-03-21 09:00

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AMD Announces Open-Source "GAIA" For GenAI But Currently Windows-Only

AMD on Thursday announced GAIA for "Generative AI Is Awesome" as a means of easily running local large language models (LLMs) on Ryzen AI PCs with the XDNA NPU. GAIA provides an easy software demonstration for Ryzen AI capabilities but sadly for the mo...

2025-03-21 08:30

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ASUS ROG Flow Z13 Improvements For Linux, RGB Controls For The ROG Ally

A set of eleven patches being worked on for the ASUS HID and platform drivers work to enhance the support for the AMD Strix Halo powered ROG Flow Z13 (2025) laptop as well as adding RGB control support for the ROG Ally gaming handheld...

2025-03-21 06:46

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Dynamic EPP & Raw EPP Features Coming To AMD P-State Driver

The AMD P-State Linux kernel driver for CPU frequency scaling with modern Ryzen processors has been working out quite well and proving very effective over the prior ACPI CPUFreq generic driver use. Beyond recently being extended to becoming the default...

2025-03-21 06:28

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Vulkan 1.4.311 Released With New Extension For BFloat16

The Vulkan 1.4.311 specification update is out today with a handful of issues resolved with various clarifications and other subtle refinements. Plus two new extensions...

2025-03-21 05:55

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Intel Updates Advanced Performance Extensions "APX" Code For The Linux Kernel

In addition to Intel software engineers this week being busy doing a late restructuring of AVX10 support in moving away from possible 256-bit maximum vector register size (a great move and still so excited to see this materialize!), there are also Inte...

2025-03-20 20:59

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The Most Interesting Linux 6.14 Features From NTSYNC To AMD Ryzen AI & Rust Abstractions

Barring any last minute issues or hesitation by Linus Torvalds, the Linux 6.14 kernel is aiming for releasing as stable this coming Sunday on 23 March. Here's a reminder about some of the most interesting changes to find with Linux 6.14...

2025-03-20 16:28

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Mesa 25.0.2 Changes Range From Fixing Soft FP64 For Old AMD GPUs To RX 9070 Fixes

Even amid the ongoing FreeDesktop.org GitLab cloud/server migration, Eric Engestrom has managed to release Mesa 25.0.2 on schedule as the newest stable release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux systems...

2025-03-20 12:30

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Mesa RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Driver Performance For The AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series

With my launch day testing of the Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards on Linux the Mesa RADV driver was used given that is what is predominantly used by Linux gamers/enthusiasts and is used out-of-the-box by all of the major Linux distributions. Last week AM...

2025-03-20 10:30

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Arm Bringing Up Support For Newer Mali GPUs With The Open-Source Panthor Driver

Arm engineer Karunika Choo today sent out the latest patches developing a new GPU-specific initialization framework for the Panthor open-source kernel graphics driver as part of bringing up support for newer Mali GPUs...

2025-03-20 09:00

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Google Developing "Live Update Orchestrator" As New Means Of Live Linux Kernel Updates

While there is Kpatch, Ksplice, and other live patching solutions already in use for patching a running Linux kernel for deploying security updates without downtime, Google engineers are developing the Live Update Orchestrator as a new means of transit...

2025-03-20 07:11

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DAMON Self-Tuned Memory Tiering Shows Nice Improvement For Linux Servers

Linux developer SeongJae Park has posted a set of patches for the Linux kernel's wonderful DAMON code to provide for self-tuned memory tiering that "just works" and is racking up some nice performance wins...

2025-03-20 06:52

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Google Chrome Replacing FreeType With Rust-Written Skrifa For Font Handling

The Google Chrome web browser is moving away from the FreeType font rendering library and instead pursuing their Skrifa project that is written in Rust for better memory safety around handling fonts on the web...

2025-03-20 06:37

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