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Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 5-Inch Released For $40

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 17:52
The newest hardware offering announced by Raspberry Pi today is a 5-inch variant of the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2...

Linux 6.17-rc2 Released With Performance Fixes & More

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 06:59
Linux 6.17-rc2 is now available to facilitate the latest weekly testing of the Linux 6.17 kernel...

Linux 6.17 Performance Looking Even Better After Early Fallout Addressed

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 00:30
Last week I ran some early Linux 6.17 benchmarks showing some improvements and regressions when testing with AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo". Since then there have been some performance regression fixes along with addressing other early fallout from this fresh kernel code. Repeating the tests now on the latest Linux 6.17 Git state ahead of today's Linux 6.17-rc2 tagging is showing some nice improvements and fixes from the code churn this week...

Linux 6.17-rc2 To Better Tune Attack Vector Controls For SRSO Mitigation

Phoronix - Sun, 08/17/2025 - 21:23
One of the new exciting security features with Linux 6.17 is Attack Vector Controls as a means of easier managing CPU security mitigations depending upon the system/server use-case. It drastically simplifies CPU security mitigation management for only activating the mitigations relevant to intended use. With the Linux 6.17-rc2 kernel due out later today, Attack Vector Controls refines its logic around the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigation...

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