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Revised Intel Shadow Stack Support May Be Ready For Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Mon, 06/19/2023 - 19:55
Intel engineers had sent in Shadow Stack support for Linux 6.4 as this feature part of Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) but it hit a last-minute snag during the merge window with issues raised by Linus Torvalds. Now it looks like the cleaned-up Shadow Stack code will be re-submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle...

GCC Lands AVX-512 Fully-Masked Vectorization

Phoronix - Mon, 06/19/2023 - 18:30
Stemming from looking at the generated x264 video encode binary and some performance inefficiencies, SUSE engineers have worked out AVX-512 fully masked vectorization support for the GCC 14 development code...

Linux 6.5 Upgrading The Rust Toolchain, New Modules Added

Phoronix - Mon, 06/19/2023 - 18:12
While the Linux 6.5 merge window isn't opening for another week, Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda has already submitted the pull request of the new Rust kernel code destined for this next kernel cycle...

Open-Source Vulkan Driver Continues To Be Worked On For Old Radeon HD 6000 Series GPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 06/19/2023 - 17:57
The "Terakan" Vulkan driver continues to be developed as an open-source Vulkan API implementation catering to the aging Radeon HD 6000 series graphics processors...

How to Schedule a Linux Job Without Cron

Tecmint - Mon, 06/19/2023 - 12:35
The post How to Schedule a Linux Job Without Cron first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The world of Linux is filled with so much fun and interesting stuff, the more we go in, the more we find kinds of stuff.

The post How to Schedule a Linux Job Without Cron first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux 6.4-rc7 Released With The Quiet Cycle Continuing

Phoronix - Mon, 06/19/2023 - 05:41
Linus Torvalds took time out of his Father's Day to release Linux 6.4-rc7 as the newest weekly test candidate for this kernel that's likely to be officially released next weekend...

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