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Linux 6.17 Introduces hash_pointers= Boot Parameter

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 18:28
Linus Torvalds yesterday merged a patch from SUSE's Petr Mladek introducing a new boot parameter option for the kernel to provide greater control over the behavior of hashing pointer values...

Intel Updates Legacy Compute Driver To Benefit Broadwell Through Ice Lake iGPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 18:12
Last year Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support discontinued its support for Broadwell through Ice Lake integrated graphics to focus strictly on Tigerlake with Intel "Gen12" graphics and newer. Today though they issued an update to their legacy driver branch for helping with the graphics compute support on those older hardware platforms...

openSUSE Leap 16.0 Enters RC Phase With New Installer, Xfce On Wayland Option

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 09:31
Working toward the stable openSUSE Leap 16.0 release in late 2025, the release candidate period has begun for this Linux distribution aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 sources...

F2FS Sees New Improvements Merged For Linux 6.17 While Bcachefs Languishes

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 08:21
Sent out today for the Linux 6.17 merge window and already merged hours later were the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) feature updates...

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