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Retbleed fix slugs Linux VM performance by up to 70 percent  The Register

Linus Torvalds has just announced Linux 6.0-rc5 as the latest test release of Linux 6.0 that is working its way toward a stable release in early October...

Linux 6.0-rc5 Released After A Calm Week Of Kernel Development  Phoronix

How to Self-Host Bitwarden Password Manager on Raspberry Pi Zero  MUO - MakeUseOf

Disclosed back in March was the Spectre-BHB / Branch History Injection (BHI) speculative execution vulnerability that on the Arm side affected CPUs from the likes of the Spectre-A15 through A78 series as well as the likes of the X1, X2, and A710, plus the Neoverse E1 / N1 / N2 / V1 CPUs. Now for Linux 6.1, a command-line option is being added for ARM64 to be able to disable the Spectre-BHB mitigation due to the "great impact" to performance...

Fly-Pie: A Mouse-Centric GNOME Shell Menu Launcher for Linux  Linux News, Apps and Tutorials

Linux 6.1 Adding Option To Disable Spectre-BHB On Arm Due To "Great Impact" On Performance  Phoronix

Papirus Icon Set’s September Update Adds 38 New Icons  OMG! Ubuntu!

For those recently picking up an ASUS laptop powered by AMD Ryzen Mobile 6000 series "Rembrandt" SoCs or considering such a device, AMD has prepared a set of fixes for the suspend-to-idle support...

AMD Prepares s2idle Fixes For AMD Ryzen 6000 Series Powered ASUS Laptops  Phoronix

The Device Tree (DT) files needed by the Linux kernel for Apple Macs powered by the M1 Pro, Max, and Ultra SoCs have been submitted on the kernel mailing list for review and working their way towards upstream...

Apple M1 Pro/Max/Ultra Device Trees Under Review For Linux  Phoronix

As part of the multi-year effort to overhaul the Linux kernel's printk() code there has been much work in recent months around threaded console printing so each registered console would have a kernel thread and console printing would be decoupled from the printk() callers. That work was aimed for Linux 5.19 but then reverted due to troubles. There is now a new implementation in the works...

Linux Sees A New Attempt At Threaded Console Printing  Phoronix

FLAC 1.4 was released on Friday as the "Free Lossless Audio Codec" that is known for its great, no-cost lossless compression for digital audio...

FLAC 1.4 Released With AArch64 Optimizations, Faster x86_64 FMA  Phoronix

Last month Intel began landing oneVPL support within FFmpeg as their video processing and acceleration library that is part of their oneAPI toolkit. The oneVPL Video Processing Library supports CPU-based execution as well as native Intel GPU acceleration for their latest Gen12/Xe hardware with a focus on Arc Graphics / DG2 hardware, targeting the Intel Media SDK for their older GPUs, and can be adapted for other possible back-ends...

Intel Talks Up Their oneVPL Acceleration Within FFmpeg  Phoronix

Canonical used to host a stellar in-person event each Ubuntu Linux development cycle with the Ubuntu Developer Summit. That was over a decade ago and then it became largely a virtual event and then faded away in favor of Canonical's internal road-map planning and other developer sprints among their employees. Coming up in November in Prague is the return of an in-person official event with the Ubuntu Summit...

Ubuntu Summit Making A Return In November  Phoronix