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RISC-V With Linux 6.6 Offers Better Kernel Security With KASLR

Phoronix - Sun, 09/10/2023 - 20:23
More RISC-V architecture updates were merged this weekend for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window...

Zunaid Ali - How-To Geek

Google News - Sun, 09/10/2023 - 20:00
Zunaid Ali  How-To Geek

AmpereOne Core PMU Perf Events Added For Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sun, 09/10/2023 - 19:52
Merged overnight were the perf subsystem tooling updates for the Linux 6.6 merge window that is set to close later on Sunday...

LoongArch With Linux 6.6 Adds KGDB/KDB, KFence, KASAN, LBT Binary Translation

Phoronix - Sun, 09/10/2023 - 03:34
The LoongArch CPU port is seeing a number of new kernel features enabled with Linux 6.6 as well as seeing some new hardware features wired up such as for Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) and allowing LSX/LASX instruction use in kernel-space...

KSMBD Declared Stable - No Longer "Experimental" - In Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sat, 09/09/2023 - 21:30
Back in 2021 Samsung engineers posted KSMBD as an in-kernel SMB3 server alternative to the likes of the user-space Samba server. KSMBD merged into Linux 5.15 as an experimental SMB server while after two years of fixes and other improvements has now dropped its "experimental" marking...

DXVK-NVAPI 0.6.4 Implements HDR Support Via DXVK

Phoronix - Sat, 09/09/2023 - 20:04
A new version of DXVK-NVAPI is now available, the NVIDIA public NVAPI interface implemented atop DXVK for use by Direct3D games running on Valve's Steam Play (Proton). DXVK-NVAPI allows for NVIDIA DLSS for Vulkan / D3D11 / D3D12, NVIDIA Reflex support, PhysX, and other NVIDIA features to be enabled for popular Windows games running on Linux...

GNOME 45.rc Brings GDM Wayland Multi-Seat, More libadwaita Adoption

Phoronix - Sat, 09/09/2023 - 18:42
The GNOME 45 release candidate is now available for testing ahead of the desktop's stable release later this month...

KDE Lands More Power Management Tuning, Behaves Better On Btrfs File-Systems

Phoronix - Sat, 09/09/2023 - 18:30
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his newest weekly development summary as the developers work toward releasing Plasma 6.0 in February...

FreeBSD 14 Beta Released - Initial WiFi 6 Support, Updated LLVM Toolchain, Fwget Utility

Phoronix - Sat, 09/09/2023 - 18:19
FreeBSD 14 Beta 1 is available this weekend for helping to test out this major BSD operating system update that should debut as stable before the end of October...

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