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Linux 6.4 Features: Many Intel & AMD Additions, Better Desktop/Laptop Hardware Drivers

Phoronix - Mon, 05/08/2023 - 22:35
With Linux 6.4-rc1 released, here is my original overview of all the interesting changes coming for the Linux 6.4 kernel that will be released as stable at the end of June or in early July.

GCC 12.3 Released With 127+ Bug Fixes, AMD Zen 4 Support Backported

Phoronix - Mon, 05/08/2023 - 21:00
While GCC 13.1 recently released as the first major stable release of the GCC 13 series, for those continuing to depend upon last year's GCC 12 stable series there is a new point release available today...

NVK Open-Source Vulkan Driver Development Progressing On Nearly Decade Old GTX 980M

Phoronix - Mon, 05/08/2023 - 20:22
Development of the NVK open-source NVIDIA Mesa Vulkan driver is being done in part on a nearly decade old GeForce GTX 980M mobile graphics processor since at the moment it's one of the more recent NVIDIA GPUs that can be re-clocked using the existing Nouveau kernel driver code...

Fedora 39 Looks To Ship mkosi-initrd As A Modern Alternative To Dracut

Phoronix - Mon, 05/08/2023 - 18:22
One of the recent change proposals for the in-development Fedora 39 is to ship systemd's mkosi-initrd as a modern and superior alternative to Dracut for constructing initrds...

Oracle Updates TrenchBoot Secure Dynamic Launch Support For Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 05/08/2023 - 18:07
In development for several years now has been TrenchBoot as a framework for creating security engines to perform system launch integrity actions. This boot-time integrity framework continues advancing and this past week Oracle engineers posted their latest patches for the Linux kernel in providing dynamic launch support...

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