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Bcachefs Sees More Fixes For Linux 6.9-rc4, Reiterates Its Experimental Nature
Last week Bcachefs' repair code was largely completed and in good shape for merging with the Linux 6.9-rc3 kernel. Bcachefs patches last week amounted to about one third of the kernel changes for the week. This week is a new round of fixes to further stabilize the experimental file-system...
Lutris 0.5.17 Game Manager Brings Bug Fixes, Library Syncing & New Runners
A new release of Lutris is now available, the open-source game manager that's popular with Linux gamers and enthusiasts for managing games from Steam, GOG, a number of retro game consoles and emulators, and other sources from one convenient UI...
KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support
A day after explicit sync support was merged for XWayland, a week after explicit sync support for Mesa Vulkan drivers hit Mesa 24.1, and GNOME's Mutter enabling explicit sync at the end of March, KDE's KWin compositor has now merged its Wayland explicit sync support!..
Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines
Mesa's Lavapipe driver as a software (CPU-based) implementation of the Vulkan API has now implemented support for ray-tracing pipelines...
New Spectre v2 attack impacts Linux systems on Intel CPUs - BleepingComputer
New Spectre v2 attack impacts Linux systems on Intel CPUs BleepingComputer
New Spectre v2 attack impacts Linux systems on Intel CPUs - BleepingComputer
New Spectre v2 attack impacts Linux systems on Intel CPUs BleepingComputer
Turbostat Becomes Semi-Useful To Non-Root Users
The turbostat utility is useful on Linux systems for reporting idle/power-state statistics, temperatures, and other useful metrics for modern CPUs. It's also able to dive deeper and provide various MSR values and counters and other intriguing CPU bits. For much of these features root access is required and thus turbostat has bailed out up to this point if not running as root. But as a number of the metrics can still be obtained without root access, turbostat is finally being adapted to handle running better as a non-root user...
Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q1 Brings New Filter To Transform Old Content
Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel is where they maintain their various yet-to-be-upstreamed patches for the FFmpeg multimedia library either to enhance/enable new Intel graphics hardware support or improve/add extra functionality to this widely-used open-source library. With the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q1 release they are shipping a new filter for dealing with older content as well as several other new features...