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Jaegeuk Kim has ushered in the Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates for the in-development Linux 6.2 kernel, which is headlined by two new features for this file-system...

For those that prefer waiting for the first Mesa point release in a new series before moving to it, Mesa 22.3 is now on the table with Mesa 22.3.1 having been released on Wednesday...

After a half-year of development, Libreboot 20221214 is now available for this downstream of Coreboot that is focused on software freedom and providing fully open-source firmware support. Libreboot also enhances the experience with an automated build system and other changes in the name of software freedom and being user-friendly...

Yesterday it was the GCC Rust front-end "gccrs" being merged into the GNU Compiler Collection codebase for GCC 13. Today the Modula-2 language front-end also made it over the finish line...

Flang as LLVM's Fortran language front-end has landed support for the -Ofast and -ffast-math compiler flags...

In addition to the in-development Linux 6.2 bringing TDX guest attestation support for use with new processors, another new hardware security feature being enabled with this next kernel release is Asynchronous Exit Notification for Software Guard Extensions (SGX)...

AMD's GPUOpen group has announced the AMD Device Library eXtra "ADLX" software development kit intended to help improve integration with third-party software. While nice in theory, for now at least it's Windows-only...

As we approach the end of 2022 and with Intel recently having revealed a January date for introducing Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids", here is a look at how the upstream Linux performance has evolved since the debut of the current-generation Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" processors debuted in early 2021. This article is looking at the Xeon Platinum 8380 Linux performance with benchmarks conducted on CentOS Stream, Clear Linux, and Ubuntu back when Ice Lake SP first debuted against now on the latest Linux OS releases.

The last piece of the open-source driver equation for the AMD Radeon RX 7900 "RDNA3" series support on Linux is now properly upstream...

Mesa's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver is making progress on being able to run the new Portal RTX game...

The work by Intel engineers the past few months on Call Depth Tracking as a less costly mitigation for Retbleed on Skylake-era processors is now set to be merged for the Linux 6.2 kernel...

Microsoft's Christian Brauner has reached the finish line on his work to create a proper VFS POSIX Access Control List (ACL) API with the code now being merged for Linux 6.2...

The big batch of networking subsystem feature updates for the Linux 6.2 merge window has landed...

The X.Org Server and XWayland have new releases out ahead of the holidays, but it's not for Christmas feature releases and instead for fixing a number of new security issues...

As a nice Christmas present, code merged today to the Linux 6.2 kernel speeds up a core kernel function by a factor of 715x...

The Linux 6.2 Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) open-source kernel graphics/display driver changes have been merged with a few notable feature additions for users this cycle...

The x86 memory management updates for the Linux 6.2 merge window have been submitted with two primary additions: addressing another "tasty target for attackers" and separately is also landing of Intel's Linear Address Masking (LAM) functionality...

Released on Sunday was Linux 6.1 and in addition to having many new features making it all the more exciting is that it's expected to be this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel release. As such it will see widespread adoption particularly among servers and much interest from the hyperscalers. For those weighing an upgrade from last year's Linux 5.15 LTS kernel, Linux 6.1 with initial testing on an AMD EPYC Milan-X 2P server has shown a nice speed bump is possible across a wide-range of workloads.

As outlined yesterday the Radeon RX 7900 series can work on the upstream, open-source Linux driver stack if using Linux 6.0+ and Mesa 22.2 (but ideally 22.3+). But if you aren't wanting to jump to a newer kernel version and are running one of the supported enterprise Linux distributions, today AMD released their Radeon Software for Linux 22.40 driver package with Radeon RX 7000 "RDNA3" series support...

Following last week's approval with the GCC Rust v4 patches for them to be merged, all of the "gccrs" code was upstreamed this morning for GNU Compiler Collection 13...