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Last October marked the release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used, open-source bootable RAM testing software. In February marked memtest86+ 6.10 with UEFI Secure Boot signing and other new features. Out today is now memtest86+ 6.20 where a driving focus for this release is on improving support for older hardware...

FEX-Emu 2305 has been released, the open-source project continuing to work on x86_64 atop 64-bit ARM (AArch64) emulation support for being able to enjoy more games on ARM Linux and other software not otherwise natively available...

How to Upgrade WSL running Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.10 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

With newer generations of Intel client processors having the GuC firmware binaries is now a hard requirement for accelerated graphics support. Like with AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, firmware binaries are a requirement beyond the open-source Linux driver code. This week Intel published their initial GuC firmware binaries for upcoming Meteor Lake processors...

Intel Meteor Lake GuC Firmware Support Published  Phoronix

Going back years there has been patches for allowing the Linux x86_64 kernel to build as Position Independent Executable (PIE) code to further enhance the system security. Antgroup engineers most recently have been tackling the Linux x86_64 PIE support and last week sent out a new patch series...

New Patches Aim To Tackle Linux x86_64 PIE Support  Phoronix

Intel Shaodw Stack support was submitted for Linux 6.4 at the start of the merge window but now with this two-week merge window drawing to a close, it hasn't been pulled yet and Linus Torvalds raised technical issues with the proposed patches that now jeopardize its arrival this cycle...

Intel Shadow Stack For Linux Hits Last-Minute Snag With Issue ...  Phoronix

Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) Daily Build ISOs Are Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

The 7 Best Free Sound Recording Apps for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Steps to Upgrade from Ubuntu 22.10 to Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop  H2S Media

You Can Build This Raspberry Pi-Powered, 4G Linux Phone  Tom's Hardware

OURphone is a DIY Raspberry Pi-powered Linux smartphone  Liliputing

Pipe FMODE_NOWAIT Support Sent In For Linux 6.4 As A 10~23x ...  Phoronix

While the Linux 6.4 merge window is closing this weekend, today on the last full day of the period is Jens Axboe submitting pipe FMODE_NOWAIT support as what he's described as a big performance and efficiency improvement...

One of the missing RISC-V features now in place for the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel is system hibernation / suspend-to-disk support...

RISC-V With Linux 6.4 Adds Hibernation / Suspend-To-Disk Support  Phoronix

Intel software engineers have released a new version of their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) as their C language variant with extensions for enhancing single-program, multiple-data programming for both CPUs and GPUs...

Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The Intel LAM Code In Linux 6.4  Phoronix