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Linux 5.17 Released With AMD P-State Driver, Plenty Of New Hardware Support

Phoronix - Mon, 03/21/2022 - 05:59
Following the one week delay to the release schedule, Linus Torvalds issued the Linux 5.17 stable release a short time ago...

AMD Publishes New Instinct MI200 Instruction Set Documentation

Phoronix - Sun, 03/20/2022 - 19:25
AMD quietly posted a new version of its instruction set architecture documentation concerning its Instinct MI200 accelerator. AMD originally published the ISA documentation for the MI200 back in November but it seems to have gone unnoticed (including by me) while in February they went ahead and released a new version of that technical documentation...

Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 Released - Built Atop Debian 11

Phoronix - Sun, 03/20/2022 - 18:46
The Linux Mint crew have today released Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 (LMDE5). This is the effort carried out as a safeguard should Linux Mint in the future determine it unsuitable to continue basing their flagship distribution atop Ubuntu...

Many NVMe Updates & Other Block Changes For Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Sun, 03/20/2022 - 18:25
In addition to the IO_uring updates for Linux 5.18, block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe has also submitted the core block and driver changes ahead of the v5.18 merge window opening tonight following the release of Linux 5.17...

Updated AMD GPU Firmware Blobs Land In Linux-Firmware.Git For PSP 13.0.8, GC 10.3.7

Phoronix - Sun, 03/20/2022 - 17:37
AMD's Radeon Linux graphics driver developers remain very busy working on their upcoming GPU support...

Microsoft Enables SELinux By Default For CBL-Mariner Linux Distro

Phoronix - Sun, 03/20/2022 - 17:11
It was just last week Microsoft issued a new monthly update to CBL-Mariner, its Linux distribution within use at the Windows company for tasks ranging from Azure to WSL. Now a second update for March has arrived for CBL-Mariner with security fixes and a few other updates...

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