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Arch Linux Installer Now Supports Hyperland WM, Limine Bootloader - 9to5Linux

Google News - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 06:47

Arch Linux Installer Now Supports Hyperland WM, Limine Bootloader 9to5Linux

Linux 6.5-rc4 Exposes An Interesting Numerical Coincidence

Phoronix - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 05:17

Linus Torvalds released the latest weekly test candidate of the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel...

Linux 6.5-rc4 Exposes An Interesting Numerical Coincidence - Phoronix

Google News - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 05:17

Linux 6.5-rc4 Exposes An Interesting Numerical Coincidence Phoronix

GNU Binutils 2.41 Released With Intel FRED / LKGS / AMX-COMPLEX Support

Phoronix - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 00:13

GNU Binutils 2.41 is out today as the latest major update to this important collection of binary utilities present on most Linux systems and other platforms...

GNU Binutils 2.41 Released With Intel FRED / LKGS / AMX ... - Phoronix

Google News - Mon, 07/31/2023 - 00:13

GNU Binutils 2.41 Released With Intel FRED / LKGS / AMX ... Phoronix

ChromeOS 116 may begin the Lacros browser push to Chromebooks - About Chromebooks

Google News - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 23:37

ChromeOS 116 may begin the Lacros browser push to Chromebooks About Chromebooks

Mesa 23.2 Released With RADV Ray-Tracing By Default, Intel H.265 ... - Phoronix

Google News - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 21:46

Mesa 23.2 Released With RADV Ray-Tracing By Default, Intel H.265 ... Phoronix

Emacs 29.1 Released - No Longer Chokes On Very Long Lines

Phoronix - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 21:26

GNU Emacs 29.1 is out this morning as the latest update to this popular and powerful text editor...

Linux Patches Revised Around Non-Blocking Consoles

Phoronix - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 21:13

As one of the last blockers for getting real-time (PREEMPT_RT) support mainlined in the Linux kernel, this week saw a revised patch series around non-blocking consoles...

Linux Patches Revised Around Non-Blocking Consoles - Phoronix

Google News - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 21:13

Linux Patches Revised Around Non-Blocking Consoles Phoronix

What is Linux? What you need to know about distros, kernels, and more - XDA Developers

Google News - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 20:00

What is Linux? What you need to know about distros, kernels, and more XDA Developers

Huawei’s operating systems get support from home city of Shenzhen in adoption push - South China Morning Post

Google News - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 19:00

Huawei’s operating systems get support from home city of Shenzhen in adoption push South China Morning Post

Linux Kernel Prepares Rust Toolchain Upgrade To v1.71

Phoronix - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 18:41

Linux 6.5 upgraded its Rust toolchain against Rust 1.68.2. This was the first upgrade of the Rust toolchain from the original v1.62 requirements when the first Rust kernel code was mainlined. A second upgrade is now planned to take it to Rust 1.71...

Linux Kernel Prepares Rust Toolchain Upgrade To v1.71 - Phoronix

Google News - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 18:41

Linux Kernel Prepares Rust Toolchain Upgrade To v1.71 Phoronix

Linux 6.5-rc4 Brings Change For Enabling STIBP On AMD Zen 4 Auto IBRS Systems

Phoronix - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 18:17

Last weekend I wrote about Zen 4's Automatic IBRS security feature needing STIBP enabled for protecting user-space processes. Single-Threaded Indirect Branch Predictors though haven't been enabled up to now with the Auto IBRS functionality on Linux. But the x86/urgent pull request sent out today ahead of the Linux 6.5-rc4 tagging makes that change...

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