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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

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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

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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

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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

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Ada Lovelace Day 2024 - Interview with some Women in Debian

Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated on October 8 in 2024, and on this occasion, to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to the STEM fields we interviewed some of the women in Debian. Here we share their thoughts, comments, and conce...

2024-10-21 00:01

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Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.7 Launches with Linux 6.11, GNOME 47.1, and More

PorteuX 1.7 distribution is now available for download based on Slackware Linux, powered by Linux kernel 6.11, and featuring the GNOME 47.1 and KDE Plasma 6.2.1 desktop environments. Here's what's new! The post Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.7 Launches with...

2024-10-20 22:21

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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

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Intel’s NPU Driver for Linux is Now Available on the Snap Store

Canonical has put the official Linux Intel NPU driver on the Snap Store. The new Intel NPU Driver snap “bundles many components […] including device firmware, a user space driver and compiler, and an application to validate the user mode driver and...

2024-10-20 15:19

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Intel NPU Driver for Linux is Now Available on the Snap Store

Canonical has put the official Linux Intel NPU driver on the Snap Store. The new Intel NPU Driver snap “bundles many components […] including device firmware, a user space driver and compiler, and an application to validate the user mode driver and...

2024-10-20 15:19

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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"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

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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

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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

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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

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Linux 6.12-rc4 Adding Controller Support For The MSI Claw A1M & 8BitDo Ultimate 2C

Sent out overnight were a few input subsystem patches ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel release tomorrow. Notable from this pull is adding input support for the MSI Claw A1M gaming handheld as well as the 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wireless gaming controller...

2024-10-19 06:29

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KDE Developers Wrapping Up Fallout From Plasma 6.2, Spinning More Plasma 6.3 Features

KDE developers are wrapping up addressing initial fallout/regressions from the recent Plasma 6.2 desktop release as well as pushing ahead with more feature work for Plasma 6.3...

2024-10-19 06:20

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