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It Turns Out Linux Is Supposed To Enable STIBP When Enabling AMD Zen 4's Auto IBRS

Phoronix - Sun, 07/23/2023 - 19:20
Automatic IBRS is a new feature with AMD Zen 4 processors akin to Intel's Enhanced IBRS functionality. Linux 6.3 added Auto IBRS support but it turns out when that was being enabled an oversight was made...

EEVDF Scheduler May Be Ready For Landing With Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sun, 07/23/2023 - 19:00
Intel Linux engineer Peter Zijlstra's EEVDF CPU scheduler code to replace the existing Completely Fair Scheduler "CFS" code looks like it will attempt to land with the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window...

Wine-Staging 8.13 Released With D3D12GetInterface Stub

Phoronix - Sun, 07/23/2023 - 18:44
Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.13, Wine-Staging 8.13 is out today with 504 patches atop that upstream code-base...

Debian 12.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 07/23/2023 - 02:18
Building off last month's release of Debian 12.0, Debian 12.1 is out today to ship dozens of bug fixes...

LLVMpipe Now Exposes Shared Virtual Memory Support

Phoronix - Sat, 07/22/2023 - 23:45
Mesa's LLVMpipe software driver is now exposing system Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support with the necessary API bits being in place for the modern Rusticl OpenCL driver as well as the older Clover code. Plus with being a CPU-based driver there isn't any added work or complications around shared virtual memory...

Fedora Looking To Better Alert Server Administrators Around Firmware Updates

Phoronix - Sat, 07/22/2023 - 18:35
Red Hat engineers are looking at making it more evident on Fedora IoT, CoreOS, and Server editions when firmware updates become available for the hardware in use...

WineConf Likely Over But There May Be A Proton / Gaming Developer Conference

Phoronix - Sat, 07/22/2023 - 18:22
WineConf as what had been the regularly hosted Wine developer conference for this open-source project devoted to running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms is likely over. Due to dwindling attendance and no one stepping up to organize the next WineConf, the developer conference is on hiatus but in place there may end up being something like a Proton conference in the future...

OpenZFS 2.2-rc2 Brings Linux 6.5 Compatibility Fixes, Other Bugs Addressed

Phoronix - Sat, 07/22/2023 - 18:07
Last month saw the first release candidate of OpenZFS 2.2 that introduces Linux container support, BLAKE3 checksums, and block cloning capabilities. Out this weekend is a second release candidate as OpenZFS 2.2 nears release...

Plasma 6 Can Now Play A Sound When Plugging In USB Devices

Phoronix - Sat, 07/22/2023 - 17:58
Following the annual Akademy KDE developer conference, more Plasma 6.0 changes have been landing for this major desktop environment release that will likely come in H1'2024...

Ebook: Introducing LFCS Certification Preparation eBook

Tecmint - Sat, 07/22/2023 - 12:56
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For years, certifications in the Information Technology world have helped job candidates demonstrate their skills to potential employers. In the Linux world, this is as

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