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System76 Virgo Aims To Be The Quietest Yet Most Performant Linux Laptop

Phoronix - Mon, 05/29/2023 - 22:00
System76 continues teasing the in-house laptop design they are working on codenamed Virgo...

XFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line Patch

Phoronix - Mon, 05/29/2023 - 20:51
Last week XFS users began encountering metadata corruption on the latest Linux 6.3 point releases. Following kernel developers and those testing the kernels on affected hardware over the US holiday weekend, it's believed the issue has been tracked down to one missing patch that is a one line of code being deleted...

Intel Posts Latest 113 Patches For Linux KVM TDX Support

Phoronix - Mon, 05/29/2023 - 20:38
One of the new features of Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen "Sapphire Rapids" server processors is support for Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) but for this generation is only being activated for CPUs going to select cloud providers. Intel TDX allows better isolating virtual machines from the VMM/hypervisor and other non-TD software on the platform. This limited roll-out of Intel TDX has worked out okay with the Linux support for this security feature still being in flux. Sent out today was the 14th spin of the 113 patches needed for getting KVM TDX support wired up within the Linux kernel...

GCC 11.4 Released With 110+ Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Mon, 05/29/2023 - 18:28
While GCC 13 saw its first stable release several weeks back, for those taking their time in moving to major new compiler releases and still relying on the two-year-old GCC 11 series, out today is the GCC 11.4 point release...

Arm Details The Cortex-X4 With +15% Performance, Armv9.2 ISA

Phoronix - Mon, 05/29/2023 - 18:09
Arm today announced the new high-end Cortex-X4 CPU core design for delivering their most powerful Cortex compute cluster...

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