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Back in December Linux kernel patches were posted by a Meta engineer for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found with Zen 3 and newer processors. The Linux kernel would use INVLPGB for invalidating TLB entries for a range of pages with broadcast. After these patches went through 14 rounds of review since December, it looks like this AMD broadcast TLB invalidation support is now ready for the mainline Linux kernel!..

Raspberry Pi has been on a spree lately with many new product launches such as the Raspberry Pi 500, Raspberry Pi Monitor, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, and Compute Module 5 in the past few months. Today the company announced an expansion of their offerings in the Compute Module 4 line-up...

Rustup 1.28 is out today as the newest version of this official tool that is the Rust project's recommended means of installing the Rust programming language support...

Rustup 1.28 Adds New Windows AArch64 & LoongArch Platform Support  Phoronix

Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released with VoLTE Support for Volla Phone Users  9to5Linux

Last September the USB Implementers Forum quietly published an update to the USB 2.0 specification... The Embedded USB2 Version 2.0 "eUSB2V2" supplement to provide for better performance with significantly higher data rates to USB 2.0 while maintaining the low-voltage electrical interface...

Intel Preps Linux For eUSB2V2 To Enhance USB 2.0 For Higher Resolution Laptop Webcams  Phoronix

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 2nd, 2025  9to5Linux

Bored? Check out the Museum of All Things and dive into Wikipedia in 3D  GamingOnLinux

Open-sourced back in 2019 was the OpenPOWER Microwatt as an open-source, soft processor core of Power ISA 3.0 and intended for use on FPGA boards and then there was seemingly short-lived work to fabricate a Microwatt chip and Microwatt also found its way for use within a BMC implementation. Linux 5.14 added support for this soft CPU core while the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle is set to introduce SMP support for Microwatt...

Why I Just Can't Love Linux Mint  MSN

The newest upstream-focused work around AMD SEV for Secure Encrypted Virtualization with EPYC server processors is a set of patches to better optimize cache flushing...

Optimized AMD SEV Cache Flushing Patches Posted For Linux  Phoronix

R.E.P.O. is a new co-op horror game with silly physics currently exploding on Steam  GamingOnLinux

Sonic Unleashed gets a full fan-made PC port with Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Wake, Boot, Repeat: Remote OS Selection With GRUB And ESP  Hackaday

GOverlay app to help you configure the MangoHud overlay v1.3 released  GamingOnLinux

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FFmpeg is a powerful command-line tool used for handling multimedia files, including editing metadata, which contains essential information such as

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Linux Mint is Redesigning the Cinnamon App Menu  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint is Redesigning the Cinnamon App Menu  OMG! Ubuntu!