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Fedora 38 Plots Path To Unified Kernel Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/21/2022 - 02:50
Red Hat and Fedora engineers are plotting a path to supporting Unified Kernel Images (UKI) with Fedora Linux and for the Fedora 38 release in the spring they are aiming to get their initial enablement in place...

NetBSD 10 Beta Brings Much Improved Performance, Long Overdue Hardware Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/21/2022 - 02:30
After being in development for three years the first beta builds of the upcoming NetBSD 10.0 operating system release are now available for testing...

Mesa 23.0 Enables Vulkan Mesh Shaders For AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series

Phoronix - Wed, 12/21/2022 - 01:00
As of today with Mesa 23.0 Git the EXT_mesh_shader extension is finally enabled by default for AMD Radeon RX 6000 "RDNA2" graphics hardware when running on a new Linux kernel build...

NTFS Driver Adds New Mount Options With Linux 6.2

Phoronix - Wed, 12/21/2022 - 00:30
The NTFS3 kernel driver, which was contributed to the mainline kernel by Paragon Software for read/write NTFS file-system support and other features while being faster than the NTFS-3g FUSE driver, is seeing a number of updates with the Linux 6.2 kernel...

openSUSE ALP "Punta Baretti" Prototype Released With More Changes

Phoronix - Wed, 12/21/2022 - 00:00
SUSE has released a new prototype build of their Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) that will serve as the basis for the next-generation SUSE Enterprise Linux...

Running The New Open-Source NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Support In Linux 6.2

Phoronix - Tue, 12/20/2022 - 21:14
While NVIDIA is already out with multiple GeForce RTX 40 series products, coming only now with the Linux 6.2 kernel is initial open-source 3D acceleration support for the GeForce RTX 30 "Ampere" graphics processors. Here is my initial experience with this open-source NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series support in Linux 6.2.

Intel Sends Out Initial Linux Kernel Patches For FRED

Phoronix - Tue, 12/20/2022 - 19:16
Intel last year published documentation concerning a feature for future CPUs that they dubbed FRED, the Flexible Return and Event Delivery. FRED has the capability of helping system performance and response time while now initial patches for the Linux kernel have been published for supporting FRED...

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