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Go Ad-Free & Single Page Articles With The Phoronix 2023 Oktoberfest Sale

Phoronix - Sun, 09/17/2023 - 21:45
While there is (sadly) once again no Phoronix pilgrimage/meet-up at Oktoberfest this year, there is the annual Phoronix Premium sale special for those wishing to support the site at a discounted rate to enjoy ad-free viewing, multi-page articles on a single page, native dark mode, and other benefits...

Linux 6.7 To Add POWER-Z Driver For Exposing USB Power Measurements

Phoronix - Sun, 09/17/2023 - 20:30
For those curious about the power consumption of USB-C devices, there are some nifty devices out there that have a LED display and can report the voltage, Amps, Wattage, and USB power delivery protocol version of connected devices. It's a neat display but with a new POWER-Z driver coming to the Linux kernel it's possible to propagate that information from the system itself with this new driver...

Linux's SLUB Allocator Preparing To Better Fend Off Cross-Cache Attacks

Phoronix - Sun, 09/17/2023 - 18:25
Following SLOB's removal and SLAB being deprecated and set for removal, the Linux kernel is all-in on the SLUB allocator. A new patch series posted on Friday is aiming to help prevent the possibility of cross-cache attacks with the SLUB memory allocator in the kernel...

Wine-Staging 8.16 Fixes A 16 Year Old Bug For Games Crashing

Phoronix - Sun, 09/17/2023 - 18:12
Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.16 is now Wine-Staging 8.16 for this experimental blend of Wine that offers up nearly 500 additional testing/in-development patches...

NBCON Console Patches Updated For Eventually Unblocking Real-Time Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 09/17/2023 - 17:49
The threaded / atomic console support for the Linux kernel is the last main blocker before the real-time "RT" patches can finally be mainlined...

AMD Linux Gaming Performance Largely Unchanged With Linux 6.6 Git

Phoronix - Sun, 09/17/2023 - 01:28
With the AMD performance uplift on the Linux 6.6 kernel due to the EEVDF scheduler code, the workqueue enhancements for chiplet-based processor designs, and other improvements, many Phoronix readers have speculated over AMD Linux gaming performance improvements with this in-development kernel...

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