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Google News - Sat, 02/22/2025 - 03:39
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System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 6 Desktop Environment

Phoronix - Sat, 02/22/2025 - 02:34
System76 engineers remain quite busy working on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment to be used by their Pop!_OS operating system as well as other Linux distributions moving forward...

Linux's FineIBT Protections "Critically Flawed" Until Intel CPUs Appear With FRED

Phoronix - Sat, 02/22/2025 - 00:28
FineIBT is a Linux kernel initiative led by Intel engineers that aimed to combine the best of Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) and Control Flow Integrity. FineIBT was merged in 2022 for the Linux 6.2 kernel as an alternative control flow integrity implementation. Some FineIBT weaknesses were previously addressed but now the implementation has been determined to be "critically flawed" at least until next-generation Intel processors appear with FRED...

Benchmarks: Excellent Power Efficiency With 5th Gen AMD EPYC Using amd-pstate & Power Profiles

Phoronix - Fri, 02/21/2025 - 22:00
The AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors that launched last year offer excellent performance and power efficiency out-of-the-box. For those wanting to pursue maximum power efficiency and running in the most optimal configuration for performance-per-Watt, AMD EPYC BIOS tunables as well as recent Linux kernel driver improvements can help in driving even greater efficiency. Today's article is a look at the impact of the AMD P-State driver usage and options with recent kernel versions as well as the Power Profile Selection BIOS option for the impact on 5th Gen EPYC performance and power efficiency.

Ubuntu 25.04 Working On More Improvements For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptop Support

Phoronix - Fri, 02/21/2025 - 21:30
We are nearing one year since the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops shipped with Windows 11 ARM. For the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release it's looking like more of these ARM-powered laptops will have somewhat usable support at least for those wanting to avoid Intel Core Ultra or AMD Ryzen laptops...

PCSX2 Enables Wayland Support By Default - After Previously Calling It "Super Broken"

Phoronix - Fri, 02/21/2025 - 20:30
The latest open-source project enabling Wayland support by default today is PCSX2 as the PlayStation 2 game emulator for Linux and other platforms...

Gentoo Linux Announces Official QCOW2 Images For Cloud VMs

Phoronix - Fri, 02/21/2025 - 19:54
One of the Linux distributions we hear very little about in the industry for cloud/VM usage is Gentoo Linux. But that could change with the Gentoo project now putting out official QCOW2 disk images to make it easier deploying this source-based Linux distribution within virtual machines...

Z3fold & Zbud Allocators Likely To Be Removed In Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Fri, 02/21/2025 - 19:42
It's looking like Linux 6.15 will be the kernel that does away with the Z3fold and Zbud allocators...

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