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Wasmer 5.0-rc1 Adds Experimental Support For WASMI, Interpreter Mode Support
For those interested in the prospects of WebAssembly for being able to write "universal apps" that can run anywhere, Wasmer as one of the leading WASM runtimes is closing in on its v5.0 feature release...
2024-10-22 06:16
SysVinit 3.11 Released With An "Important Feature" At Long Last
For those still managing to avoid systemd use on Linux systems and preferring SysVinit as their init system of choice, SysVinit 3.11 is out today with a new "important feature" addition...
2024-10-21 20:52
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board Update
Earlier this year SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board with plans for shipping in July. That timeframe for shipping since passed but SiFive today issued a new update on their RISC-V development board...
2024-10-21 14:27
Intel Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake With ASUS Zenbook Performing Better After New Linux Patch
On Sunday there was a new patch posted by an Intel Linux engineer to boost the Lunar Lake Linux performance out-of-the-box for ASUS laptops by adjusting the new ASUS Intelligent Performance Technology "AIPT" feature so that Linux follows the same behav...
2024-10-21 12:00
AMD Posts Linux Patches For EPYC To Further Enhance Performance-Per-Watt By Default
Making for an exciting Monday morning, AMD Linux engineers have kicked off the new week with a patch series introducing an exciting and long-awaited change: using the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver by default for EPYC server platforms moving ...
2024-10-21 09:00
Intel IWD 3.0 Wireless Daemon Released For Linux Systems
Intel's iNet Wireless Daemon (IWD) for Linux systems is out with a v3.0 release for this featureful and modern alternative to WPA_Supplicant...
2024-10-21 08:40
Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks
Over the past week Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been active on a Linux kernel mailing list thread around avoiding barrier_nospec() in copy_from_user() due to being "overkill and painfully slow." The conversation evolved into low-level discussions o...
2024-10-21 06:55
Hangover 9.20 Restores Support For Running Win64 Applications On ARM64 Wine
Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.20 for running Windows games/applications on Linux, Hangover 9.20 is now available for this extension of Wine that builds off that codebase while pairing it with an x86/x86_64 emulator for running Windows program...
2024-10-21 06:27
Unvanquished 0.55 Released With Big Performance Optimizations For Its Engine
The Unvanquished 0.55 open-source game that was recently teased for its OpenGL 4.6 renderer work is out today with its shiny new release. As it's been more than one and a half years since Unvanquished 0.54, this new beta comes with a load of improvemen...
2024-10-21 06:18
Meson 1.6 Build System Adds Support For Flang & OpenXL Compilers
Meson 1.6 was published on Sunday as the newest feature update to this popular cross-platform build system...
2024-10-21 06:08
Linux 6.12-rc4 Released With MSI Claw A1M Controller Support, Intel & AMD Fixes
Linux 6.12-rc4 is out today as the half-way point to releasing the Linux 6.12 stable kernel around this time of the month in November...
2024-10-20 18:53
Intel Posts Patch For Fixing/Boosting Lunar Lake Linux Performance On ASUS Laptops
Since purchasing an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" laptop for Linux testing last month, the performance has been coming in below expectations. Among the tests were finding Xe2 graphics on Lunar Lake performing slower that under Windows 11 and i...
2024-10-20 09:18
Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source
Several Phoronix readers have written in this Sunday over concerns of Bitwarden further moving away from open-source. Bitwarden is a password management service that leverages an encrypted vault and supports multiple clients/platforms. Bitwarden operat...
2024-10-20 08:54
ReiserFS File-System Expected To Be Removed With Linux 6.13
With ReiserFS having been deprecated for two years with plans to remove it in 2025, the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle for what will be the first major kernel release of the new year and past the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel is expected to do just that... ReiserFS...
2024-10-20 06:53
Lightweight Guard Pages For Linux Showing 5x Speed-Up For Memory Mapping Invocations
Patches posted this week by Oracle's Lorenzo Stoakes are the latest attempt at lightweight guard pages for the Linux kernel...
2024-10-20 06:38
Audio Firmware Upstreamed For Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 On Linux
Qualcomm has upstreamed the audio firmware for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 "X1E80100" series laptop SoCs to linux-firmware.git...
2024-10-20 06:30
"100% Free" GNU Boot Discovers Again They Have Been Shipping Non-Free Code
GNU Boot is a "100% free software project aimed at replacing the non-free boot software" and is a downstream of Coreboot, GRUB, and SeaBIOS. While priding itself on being "100% free", last December they had to drop some motherboard support and CPU code...
2024-10-19 15:11
GNOME Making Progress On Full-Featured USB Portal For Flatpaks
Thanks to funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund, GNOME developers have been working on greater USB permissions/controls for Flatpak-based Linux applications...
2024-10-19 09:55
Wine-Staging 9.20 Fixes An 11 Year Old Wine Bug Report
Building off yesterday's release of Wine 9.20, Wine-Staging 9.20 is now available for this experimental blend of Wine featuring 357 extra patches currently atop the upstream codebase for various testing/experimental features and functionality...
2024-10-19 07:30
Linux Might Drop Fieldbus Support For Industrial Systems With No One Maintaining It
Merged back in 2019 was the Fieldbus system for connecting different systems/components/instruments within industrial environments. Five years later the code isn't being well maintained and looks like it will be on its way out the door if no one steps ...
2024-10-19 06:39