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More Rust Code Readied For Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Sat, 04/29/2023 - 20:14
On Friday the Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda submitted a pull request of new Rust feature code for the Linux 6.4 kernel...

Intel Linear Address Masking "LAM" Merged Into Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Sat, 04/29/2023 - 18:52
Since 2020 Intel engineers have been working on Linear Address Masking (LAM) as a feature similar to Arm's Top Byte Ignore (TBI) for letting user-space store metadata within some bits of pointers without masking it out before use. This can be of use to virtual machines, profiling / sanitizers / tagging, and other applications. The Intel LAM kernel support has finally been merged with Linux 6.4...

Debian Installer Bookworm RC2 Released

Phoronix - Sat, 04/29/2023 - 18:36
In preparing for releasing Debian 12.0 "Bookworm" in June, out this weekend is the second release candidate of the Debian Installer for this next major Debian Linux release...

KDE Ends Out April Continuing Its "Bug Slaughterfest"

Phoronix - Sat, 04/29/2023 - 18:14
KDE developers this month have been tackling many open bugs as well as seeing the early Plasma 6 development state rough yet usable. In ending out April, they continued their "bug slaughterfest" in whittling away at their open bug count...

Wine 8.7 Released With Another 17 Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Sat, 04/29/2023 - 08:10
Wine 8.7 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software to enjoy running Windows games and applications across Linux / BSDs / macOS / Chrome OS platforms...

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