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Memtest86+ 7.20 Adds Support For Intel Arrow Lake & AMD Zen 5

Memtet86+ 7.0 debuted back in January while now as we approach the end of 2024, Memtest86+ 7.20 is now available as the latest significant update to this open-source memory tester commonly used on Intel and AMD systems...

2024-11-11 13:55

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Fedora Stakeholders Debate Concerns Over "Karma" Term For Their Updates System

The latest terminology within the Fedora camp causing concern is "karma" that's long been used for conveying feedback around package updates with their Bodhi software used for gating Fedora Linux package updates...

2024-11-11 13:11

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Microsoft Announces Open-Source Hyperlight For Embedded VMM Within Linux/Windows Apps

Microsoft last month announced the open-source Rust-written OpenHCL for running confidential Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP virtual machines. Today Microsoft is announcing another interesting open-source, Rust-based project in the virtualization space: Hype...

2024-11-11 10:10

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Basic Support For Many Pre-M1 Apple Devices Coming To Linux 6.13

While not as exciting as if it were Apple M3/M4 device support hitting the upstream mainline Linux kernel, but for those with some older Apple (pre-M1) devices around, support for a number of older SoCs and boards is set to arrive with the upcoming Lin...

2024-11-11 09:52

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Intel Adapting Energy Aware Scheduling "EAS" To P-State Driver For Lunar Lake

As another effort for boosting the energy efficiency and behavior of Intel Core platforms with a mix of energy efficient "E" and performance "P" cores, a set of patches were posted Friday night for adapting Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) to the Intel P-...

2024-11-11 09:15

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Linux 6.13 Rust Support Allowing For In-Place Modules

Set to be merged during the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window is support with the Rust programming language infrastructure for allowing in-place kernel modules...

2024-11-11 06:52

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Intel Diamond Rapids "-march=diamondrapids" Merged Into GCC 15

The Intel Diamond Rapids target has been merged in time for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to allow for "-march=diamondrapids" targeting for leveraging the array of new CPU ISA additions found with these next-gen Xeon processors...

2024-11-11 06:35

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Servo Browser Engine Seeing Many Performance Optimizations & SubtleCrypto API

The Rust-written Servo browser web layout engine project is out with its October 2024 status update that provides insight to their development activities the past several weeks...

2024-11-11 06:22

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PHPStan 2.0 Released For Leading PHP Static Analyzer

PHPStan 2.0 is out today as what is the best open-source static analyzer for the PHP programming language...

2024-11-11 06:10

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Linux 6.12-rc7 Released: Linux 6.12 Stable On Track For Release Next Sunday

Linus Torvalds just christened the Linux 6.12-rc7 kernel today for what will hopefully be the last release candidate before declaring Linux 6.12 stable next week Sunday...

2024-11-10 17:36

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Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Pulls In THP Shrinker & AMD Cache Optimizer

The Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution has issued its November 2024 media refresh. Notable this time are pulling a few performance-related patches into its kernel build...

2024-11-10 12:24

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Linux Optimization Patches Significantly Speed-Up Debuggers Using /proc/kcore

A set of Linux kernel patches posted on Friday by Meta/Facebook provide for sizable performance optimizations for applications leveraging /proc/kcore such as for debuggers...

2024-11-10 09:00

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Debcow Optimizing Debian Packages For Copy-On-Write File-Systems

Debcow is an experimental implementation of deploying Debian packages on copy-on-write file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs. Debcow adapts DPKG to use reflinks for installing packages. With reflinking to the file contents from the Debian package archiv...

2024-11-10 08:00

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Wine-Staging 9.21 Fixes Some Old Game Crashes & Hangs Due To DirectMusic

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for testing/evaluation to enhance the ability for Windows games and apps to run on Linux...

2024-11-10 07:13

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Linux Support For Apple's Latest Magic Trackpad USB-C Model

A patch is pending for enabling support for the USB-C model of Apple's latest Magic Trackpad input device under Linux...

2024-11-10 06:45

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Niri 0.1.10 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings Many Improvements

If this weekend's release of Hyprland 0.45 doesn't suit your fancy, Niri is also out this weekend with a new feature release. Niri is the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for an interesting Linux desktop experience...

2024-11-10 06:31

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Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates

Debian 12.8 is out today as the latest media refresh for the "Bookworm" release with numerous security fixes along with other general bug fixes included as part of the assortment of package updates...

2024-11-09 16:53

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Hyprland 0.45 Compositor Smooths Round Edges, Window Snapping For Floating Windows

Hyprland 0.45 released today as the newest version of this Wayland compositor focused on being an independent, very customizable, and dynamic tiling compositor...

2024-11-09 10:19

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NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Upcoming Driver Features

Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driver stack on X11 and under (X)Wayland...

2024-11-09 09:32

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Linux 6.13 Bringing DRM Panic Support To NVIDIA GPUs

Friday saw a final round of "drm-misc-next" feature updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. The DRM Panic code continues to be enhanced for improving this "Blue Screen of Death" like experience on the Linux desktop...

2024-11-09 08:40

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