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NetBSD 10.0 RC3 Released With A Few Last Minute Fixes

Wed, 17/01/2024 - 6:25pm
After being in development since 2019, the NetBSD 10.0 stable release looks like it will happen soon. Those wanting to help in last minute testing can find NetBSD 10.0 RC3 now available...

Many New Features Approved This Week For Fedora 40

Wed, 17/01/2024 - 6:00pm
This week the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) signed off on a large number of change proposals for the Fedora 40 release due out in April...

Linux On IBM Z "s390" To See ~11% Higher Syscall Entry Performance On Linux 6.8

Wed, 17/01/2024 - 3:46pm
For those interested in Linux on IBM Z / s390, there's a small change yielding measurable benefits to the s390 system call entry performance with the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel...

Linux Distributions Now Encouraged To Build GTK With Vulkan

Wed, 17/01/2024 - 3:20pm
Last week I wrote about GTK landing their new unified GPU renderer and as part of that the Vulkan API support is set to be enabled by default. Linux distribution vendors are being encouraged moving forward to indeed ship with the GTK Vulkan support enabled, so we'll be seeing more Vulkan API use on the Linux desktop with OpenGL slowly fading away...

Linux 6.8 Will Let You Know When x86 32-bit Support Is Disabled

Wed, 17/01/2024 - 2:13pm
Linux 6.7 introduced the "ia32_emulation=" boot option for enabling/disabling support for x86 32-bit programs and the ability to execute 32-bit system calls. This is part of the effort of some Linux distributions working to restrict x86 32-bit user-space support where not needed in order to reduce the software attack surface while still having a boot-time option for those wanting to enable 32-bit support or to otherwise disable it if your kernel build keeps it enabled...

Red Hat Developing AI Tool "Log Detective" To Help Developers

Wed, 17/01/2024 - 11:47am
Jiri Kyjovsky of Red Hat has shared news today of Log Detective, a new tool being developed that will leverage an AI model to help in analyzing build failures for RPM packages...

Mesa Eyes Pulling libdrm Into Its Codebase

Wed, 17/01/2024 - 11:29am
Longtime AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has laid out a proposal to integrate the libdrm code within Mesa rather than being maintained as its own separate project...

DRM Driver Changes Already Begin Queuing For Linux 6.9

Wed, 17/01/2024 - 11:18am
While the Linux v6.8 kernel merge window isn't even over yet and that kernel not debuting until March, a few days ago the first drm-misc-next pull request was submitted to DRM-Next to begin queuing the open-source graphics/display driver changes that will ultimately be targeting the Linux 6.9 kernel...

Wine 9.0 Released With Initial Wayland Driver, WoW64 Taking Shape & Better Direct3D

Tue, 16/01/2024 - 9:43pm
Wine 9.0 has debuted today for this annual stable release of Wine to allow Windows applications and games to run on Windows, Chrome OS, macOS, and other platforms. With Wine 9.0 it's the culmination of all the bi-weekly wine 8.x(x) development releases over the past year to greatly enhance the Windows app support on Linux and other targets...

GCC Rust Compiler "gccrs" Sees ~900 New Patches Upstreamed For GCC 14

Tue, 16/01/2024 - 7:08pm
Merged this afternoon to GCC Git ahead of the upcoming GCC 14.1 stable release is a big update to the GCC Rust "gccrs" compiler front-end...

Ubuntu Linux Working On Installer Support For NVMe-over-TCP

Tue, 16/01/2024 - 6:09pm
Ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release that is all important for servers, Canonical engineers are working on extending their installer support to handle NVMe-over-TCP setups...

GFS2 File-System Enables Non-Blocking Lookups With Linux 6.8

Tue, 16/01/2024 - 5:58pm
The Global File-System 2 (GFS2) for Linux clusters continues to advance thanks to Red Hat and with Linux 6.8 there is now support for non-blocking lookups...

Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Will Be Able To Clock Higher On Linux 6.8

Tue, 16/01/2024 - 2:23pm
Following last week's Linux 6.8 power management updates, Linux PM/ACPI subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel sent out a secondary set of changes this morning. Most notable with this second round of power management material is allowing Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors to clock higher with the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...

New AMD & Intel Laptop/Platform Support In Linux 6.8

Tue, 16/01/2024 - 1:41pm
Merged last week for the Linux 6.8 kernel were the platform driver x86 updates, which include a lot of new AMD Ryzen and Intel Core platform support and new laptop functionality...

~5 Minutes Of Coding Yields A 6%+ Boost To Linux I/O Performance

Tue, 16/01/2024 - 11:50am
IO_uring creator and Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe spent about five minutes working on two patches to implement caching for issue-side time querying in the block layer and can yield 6% or more better I/O performance...

Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance

Tue, 16/01/2024 - 11:38am
A Canonical engineer has been experimenting with implementing a Linux scheduler within the Rust programming language. His early results are interesting and hopeful around the potential of a Rust-based scheduler that works via sched_ext for implementing a scheduler using eBPF that can be loaded during run-time...

Linux 6.8 Introduces New Syscalls For More Detailed File-System Mount Information

Tue, 16/01/2024 - 11:28am
Merged back at the start of the Linux 6.8 merge window were the VFS mount API updates that introduce two new system calls: statmount() and listmount() for reading more detailed information about file-system mounts...

X.Org Server & XWayland Updated Due To Another Six Security Vulnerabilities

Tue, 16/01/2024 - 10:56am
It was in 2013 a security researcher called the X.Org Server security state "worse than it looks" and quite a disaster from the security/bug perspective for the aging codebase. A decade later there's still no shortage of security vulnerabilities being uncovered within the X.Org Server...

SilverStone RM51 Is A Nice 5U Chassis For Large Servers & Workstations

Tue, 16/01/2024 - 12:16am
If you are looking for a 5U rack-mountable chassis for a high-end server or workstation, the SilverStone RM51 launched a few months ago as their latest offering in the high-end server enclosure space.

AMD Releases AOMP 18.0-1 Compiler Based On ROCm 6.0, Defaults To -O2 Optimizations

Mon, 15/01/2024 - 9:26pm
As the first new tagged version of AMD's AOMP LLVM-based OpenMP-focused compiler for offloading to their Instinct / Radeon GPUs, AOMP 18.0-1 was released today with many changes...