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AMD CPUs Are Safe For Late-Loading Microcode, Will No Longer Taint The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Intel processors should have any CPU microcode updates loaded early during the Linux boot process to avoid various known issues. When "late loading" CPU microcode after the system is up and running, various issues can happen on Intel processors that led them to mark the Linux kernel as tainted under such conditions. Tainting the kernel also happened when late-loading microcode on AMD CPUs but now that's been deemed unnecessary and late-loading CPU microcode on AMD processors is reportedly safe...

CIQ Honored as NCET's Technology Company of the Year at NCET ...  PR Web

For those making use of Mesa's single-file on-disk shader cache, with the upcoming Mesa 23.1 release there will be increased space savings with the Radeon Vulkan (RADV) driver...

Humble Store has a sale on Steam Deck Verified and Playable games  GamingOnLinux

Linux and Steam Deck compatibility tool helper ProtonUp-Qt v2.8.0 ...  GamingOnLinux

Open Hexagon gets new content plus Linux and Steam Deck ...  GamingOnLinux

10 Best Linux Distros You Should Use  Beebom

Intel Back To Working On Key Locker For Linux After Tackling Big Performance Issue  Phoronix

Going back to 2020 Intel's open-source engineers have been working on Key Locker support for Linux for that hardware feature introduced with Tigerlake CPUs. The Key Locker Linux support has been worked on now for nearly three years and finally after a hiatus a new version was sent out after they worked through a significant performance issue now being addressed with forthcoming firmware...

Delinea's Latest Product Update Reduces the Risk of Backdoor ...  PR Newswire

IoT and Blockchain Market SWOT Analysis by Key Players Linux ...  Digital Journal

AMD and their partners continue working on bringing up Coreboot for the Ryzen Mobile 7040 Series "Phoenix" support for those very interesting forthcoming mobile processors with Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA3 graphics...

2023-2029 Linux Operating System Market Size Detailed Report ...  Digital Journal

For more than one year and now up to thirteen rounds of patch review, the AMD Pensando Elba SoC support continues in its trek toward the mainline Linux kernel...

Lucky 13? AMD Pensando Elba SoC Linux Enablement Revised ...  Phoronix

Embedded Linux Market Growth Analysis 2023 | Key Trends ...  Digital Journal

The CentOS Project has sent out a reminder of end-of-life dates for CentOS Linux 7 and CentOS Stream 8...

CentOS Reminds Everyone End-Of-Life Is Coming For CentOS ...  Phoronix

Following some minor delays due to additional release candidates, FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE is now officially available as this latest FreeBSD operating system update ahead of FreeBSD 14.0 debuting this summer...