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Linux 6.13 To Enhance Logic For Trusting Built-In Thunderbolt Controllers
Due to the possibility of DMA attacks from connected Thunderbolt devices, Linux and other platforms have built up safeguards over the years and different security levels for Thunderbolt to better protect systems having this high speed interface exposin...
2024-11-05 06:14
LXQt 2.1 Released With New Wayland Session Component
LXQt 2.1 is now available as the latest feature release to this Qt-based lightweight desktop environment. Most significant with LXQt 2.1 is the introduction of the lxqt-wayland-session component...
2024-11-05 05:51
Intel Panther Lake Display Support Squeezing Into Linux 6.13
Queued up over the past month into DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle has been initial support for Xe3 graphics to be found with Panther Lake processors. The initial Xe3 graphics driver support patches have been trickling in while the final ...
2024-11-04 20:24
TOUPUWAN 30-Slot Laptop/Tablet Storage Cart
To clear up the ever-growing stack of laptops, I recently bought a TOUPUWAN 30-Slot Laptop/Tablet Storage Cart. This laptop/tablet storage cart can accommodate 32 devices in total while slots for up to 30 laptops/tablets 16.3-inches in size. It does ha...
2024-11-04 13:57
Intel Releases x86-simd-sort 6.0 For Speedy AVX2/AVX-512 Sorting, PyTorch Now Using It
The x86-simd-sort project from Intel has been an interesting open-source software effort for much faster number sorting by using AVX-512. There's been lightning fast number sorting with AVX-512 and AVX2 code paths also added to broaden the appeal in he...
2024-11-04 13:22
Linux Preps New AMD ERAPS Feature With EPYC Turin To Benefit Performance
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week and now queued already via tip/tip.git's "x86/bugs" Git branch is support for a new AMD CPU feature we haven't heard about until now... ERAPS, the Enhanced Return Address Prediction Security...
2024-11-04 12:01
Manjaro Linux Working On "Manjaro Data Donor" As New Data Collection Tool
Arch-based Manjaro Linux is working on Manjaro Data Donor "MDD" as a new data collection tool of its users. This is intended to succeed their former ping-based solution for user counting plus incorporate hardware/software data collection on users. Once...
2024-11-04 09:00
Fujitsu Monaka CPU Target Added To GCC 15 Compiler
Fujitsu has upstreamed support for their next-gen "Monaka" Armv9 processor into the GNU Compiler Collection codebase in time for the GCC 15 release coming out early next year...
2024-11-04 08:28
F2FS File-System Adding Device Aliasing Feature For Nifty Uses
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is adding a device aliasing file feature that could appear in the upcoming Linux v6.13 merge window...
2024-11-04 07:00
Platform Profile Support Coming For Newer Dell/Alienware Laptops With Linux 6.13
Select newer Dell/Alienware laptops with a "WMAX" thermal interface will see ACPI Platform Profile support now exposed with the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle...
2024-11-04 06:33
AMD Posts New Linux Mitigation Handling For SRSO/Inception
AMD Linux engineer Borislav Petkov kicked off the new week by volleying a patch for adjusting the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO, a.k.a. "Inception") vulnerability mitigation handling for capabilities to be found with affected processors runni...
2024-11-04 06:17
CachyOS Explores Optimizing Its Kernel With AutoFDO
CachyOS continues to be a fascinating Arch Linux based distribution that pushes the boundaries of out-of-the-box performance with a variety of patches, optimization techniques, specialized package builds, and more. One of the latest areas they are expl...
2024-11-04 05:55
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 Launches For $60 USD, 720 x 1280 7-Inch Display
Nine years after the Raspberry Pi Touch Display was announced as a 800 x 480 pixel LCD panel catering to the Raspberry Pi, today the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 was announced...
2024-11-04 05:39
Linux 6.12-rc6 Released With That Latest Performance Optimization & Various Fixes
Linus Torvalds has just issued the Linux 6.12-rc6 kernel release as we close in on the stable Linux 6.12 kernel release later in November...
2024-11-03 19:18
Rust-Based Redox OS Gets RISC-V Working, Also Now Booting On The Raspberry Pi 4
The Redox OS open-source Rust-based operating system project is out with their newest monthly development update...
2024-11-03 10:34
AMD Heterogeneous CPU Design Topology Patches Coming For Linux 6.13
The latest patches from AMD Linux engineers for working on x86 heterogeneous design identification were queued last week for introduction in the Linux 6.13 kernel...
2024-11-03 09:30
Linux Mint Working On Night Light For Cinnamon, Collaborating With Framework Computer
The Linux Mint crew is out with their newest monthly status update that outlines the activities of this desktop Linux distribution over the course of October...
2024-11-03 09:10
Nice Performance Gains With SVT-AV1 2.3 Encoding On The System76 Thelio Astra
With this week's release of SVT-AV1 2.3 for open-source AV1 encoding citing significant performance improvements for running on ARM, I was eager to see how well this AV1 encoder would be performing on the new System76 Thelio Astra ARM developer desktop...
2024-11-03 06:26
Apple Silicon OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Updated This Week For Mesa 24.3
Alyssa Rosenzweig has pushed the latest Apple Silicon OpenGL "AGX Gallium3D" and Vulkan "Honeykrisp" code from the Asahi Linux development repository into the Mesa Git codebase ahead of this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release...
2024-11-03 06:11
Snapdragon X1 Elite CPUFreq Support Revised In Latest Linux Patches
While the mainline Linux kernel has begun seeing initial support for various Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops, various feature limitations are outstanding before these Qualcomm-powered laptops really become usable for daily use. For instance, just a few day...
2024-11-03 05:58