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Wayback 0.3 Released For Advancing This X11 Compatibility Layer

Phoronix - Wed, 12/24/2025 - 21:50
One of the interesting open-source projects to come about this year was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer using Wayland. Wayback could be used by default on Alpine Linux next year among other distributions. For ending out 2025 development, Wayback 0.3 is now available...

A Recap Of The Top AMD Linux News Of 2025: Strix Halo, AI, Kernel Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 12/24/2025 - 19:38
As part of our various "year end" articles, here is a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news and hardware reviews of 2025...

Linux 6.20~7.0 To Bring Prep Changes For CXL Soft Reserve Recovery & Accelerator Memory

Phoronix - Wed, 12/24/2025 - 19:22
The next kernel cycle that will be known as either Linux 6.20 or Linux 7.0 depending upon how Linus Torvalds handles the versioning for this next x.20 milestone. More than likely it will be Linux 7.0 given his historical versioning scheme, but whatever the case, ahead of this next kernel cycle some initialization changes for the CXL subsystem are building up...

Qualcomm's Xqci RISC-V Extension Now Deemed Non-Experimental For LLVM 22

Phoronix - Wed, 12/24/2025 - 18:58
In LLVM Git yesterday for next year's LLVM 22 release the Qualcomm Xqci RISC-V vendor extension is no longer deemed experimental...

Page Cache Sharing Looks To Be Very Beneficial For EROFS Containers

Phoronix - Wed, 12/24/2025 - 18:45
One of the features being worked on for a while with the read-only EROFS file-system is page cache sharing. Besides EROFS being popular on some mobile/embedded devices, this open-source read-only file-system has been quite popular for container usage and there this page cache sharing functionality can provide some significant reductions in RAM usage...

KVM Guest VMs Using Intel AMX Can Cause The Linux Host To Kernel Panic

Phoronix - Wed, 12/24/2025 - 09:35
An unfortunate Linux kernel bug coming to light just ahead of Christmas may cause frustration for some server administrators, particularly public cloud providers... It turns out with the Linux kernel releases since 2022, KVM guest virtual machines making use of Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) is possible to cause the host to experience a kernel panic...

Linux's sched_ext Has Plans For GPU Awareness, Energy-Aware Abstractions

Phoronix - Wed, 12/24/2025 - 09:16
Sched_ext as the extensible scheduler code for the Linux kernel that allows loading schedulers from user-space via eBPF code has shown a lot of interesting possibilities. Andrea Righi of NVIDIA who has been heavily involved in sched_ext development shared some of the future plans being looked at as we move into 2026...

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