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Reduced SquashFS Memory Use With The Linux 6.14 Kernel, More NILFS2 Fixes

In addition to all of the exciting "MM" changes for Linux 6.14 that were submitted by Andrew Morton's pull request, he also sent out the set of "non-MM" updates for the Linux 6.14 merge window...

2025-01-27 06:32

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Desktop Motherboards Continue Playing Catch-Up For Linux Monitoring Support

The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel. As happens with most kernel releases, there are a number of already-launched desktop motherboards beginning to see working sensor monitoring support under Lin...

2025-01-27 06:20

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Microsoft Announces Open-Source DocumentDB NoSQL Database

In a blog post dated for this past Thursday but only being made public on Sunday night, Microsoft issued an announcement open-sourcing their new NoSQL database... Where it gets weirder is that it's named DocumentDB. Amazon also has a database offering ...

2025-01-26 20:41

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Linux 6.14 To Switch From SHA1 To SHA512 For Module Signing By Default

While many Linux distribution vendor kernels are already using SHA-512 for signing modules by default rather than the default SHA-1, the upstream Linux 6.14 kernel is also now switching the default over to using SHA-512 for better security...

2025-01-26 20:27

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ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M Cooler For Ampere Altra 4U Servers/Workstations

For those looking for a heatsink fan to cool a custom build of an Ampere Altra / Altra Max server or workstation, the ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M ends up being a very potent option that offers similar performance to more expensive Ampere Altra heatsinks while ...

2025-01-26 16:46

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AMD Squeezes In More RDNA4 Changes For Linux 6.14 - Enables Cleaner Shader On GFX12

While the main feature pull of new and updated kernel graphics/accelerator drivers were merged already for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window, an additional set of AMDGPU changes were sent out this week for squeezing into this next kernel release...

2025-01-26 10:25

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Linux Patches Allow Sharing PTEs Between Processes - Can Mean Significant RAM Savings

A set of patches being worked on by Oracle engineers allow for optionally sharing page table entries (PTEs) between processes. For some workloads this can equate to very significant memory savings...

2025-01-26 07:10

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Mesa 25.0 Gets A New Vulkan Layer For Limiting The Amount Of Reported vRAM

A half-year-old merge request from Igalia's Karmjit Mahil has been merged for Mesa 25.0 that is a Vulkan layer allowing for optionally limiting the amount of video memory reported to games/applications...

2025-01-26 06:49

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New Sound Hardware Supported By The Linux 6.14 Kernel

Merged this week for the Linux 6.14 kernel were the various sound/audio driver updates. In addition to core API enhancements for better supporting the MIDI 2.0 specification, there is also support for some new audio hardware...

2025-01-26 06:40

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Linux 6.14 Adds ROCEv2 Support For The Alibaba Cloud

The RDMA subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel with a light set of changes overall and the most significant being support for the ROCEv2 protocol within the ERDMA driver...

2025-01-26 06:21

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Shotcut 25.01 Open-Source Video Editor Brings New Features

The Shotcut open-source video editor is out with its first new release of 2025...

2025-01-25 20:49

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Intel Media Driver 2024Q4 Released With Battlemage Video Encode

The Intel Media Driver 2024Q4 release was tagged this Saturday as the quarterly update to Intel's open-source Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems...

2025-01-25 15:27

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ISD: A New Interactive Way For systemd Management

ISD is a new open-source project aiming to provide a more "Interactive SystemD" for simplifying management of Linux systems with systemd...

2025-01-25 09:28

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Much Faster Suspend & Resume For Some Systems With Linux 6.14

Alongside the power management and thermal driver updates this week for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle were also the ACPI updates. The ACPI pull request was worth calling out on its own thanks to a change that will allow for faster suspend and res...

2025-01-25 07:19

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Intel THC, Wacom PCI Device & SteelSeries Arctis 9 Support Land In Linux 6.14

All of the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window...

2025-01-25 07:01

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SUSE's New "Agama 11" Installer Preps For SLES 16 Beta / openSUSE Leap 16

The SUSE/openSUSE Agama Installer is a modern web UI driven installer for the SUSE/openSUSE Linux distributions. It's modern, sports a cleaner UI and underlying architecture, and supports more features. The Agama 11 installer update was released this w...

2025-01-25 06:46

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Linux 6.14 Drops EFI's Long Obsolete UGA Protocol

The EFI updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel. The EFI updates this cycle aren't the most exciting but the kernel has finally bid farewell to the long obsolete UGA graphics protocol support...

2025-01-25 06:35

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KDE Plasma 6.4 Begins Seeing Early Feature Work, Plasma 6.3 Sees More Fixes

This week saw an updated KDE Plasma 6.3 beta release and more bug fixing taking place there while also beginning to see early feature work toward the follow-on Plasma 6.4 desktop...

2025-01-25 06:15

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Uncached Buffered I/O & Some Other Nice Memory Management Optimizations With Linux 6.14

Andrew Morton made for an exciting Friday evening by sending out his "MM" pull request for Linux 6.14 as the large collection of memory management related patches for this next kernel version...

2025-01-24 20:28

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Linux 6.14 Adds Support For Blaize BLZP1600, SpacemiT K1 & Snapdragon 8 Elite SoCs

The four SoC pull requests were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window. These pull requests are principally about various ARM SoC and platform hardware additions/changes but also an increasing number of RISC-V SoC activity too...

2025-01-24 13:52

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