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One of the early features being merged for what will become the GCC 16 compiler following last week's GCC 15 code branching is CPU targeting support for the XuanTie RISC-V processors...

Eugen Hristev of Linaro sent out a "request for comments" patch series today proposing kmemdump for the Linux kernel as a new means to assist in debugging driver/system problems by making it easier to dump memory for specific areas/regions...

Malicious npm Packages Target Linux Developers with SSH Backdoor Attacks  GBHackers News

Kmemdump Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help With Memory Dumping & Debugging  Phoronix

The Linux kernel has seen safeguards for select prior Intel CPU cores due to bugs around the MONITOR/MWAIT implementation with the processors. MWAIT/MONITOR bugs was found to be the cause of annoying issues at boot for Lunar Lake laptops and also previously plagued Goldmont Atom cores. It also turns out that Ice Lake servers can be subject to similar MWAIT/MONITOR behavior...

Linux Being Patched For Buggy MWAIT Behavior On Intel Ice Lake Servers  Phoronix

Merged yesterday to Mesa Git for next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release is an improvement for the Intel Vulkan ray-tracing code with an eye on next-gen Xe3 graphics hardware...

How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux  theregister.com

LIBRITOPIA: Librarian Simulator recently added a Linux version  GamingOnLinux

A retro goodie rebuilt from 1994, Ironseed 25th Anniversary Edition recently added Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Last year a patch was raised for the Linux kernel that would report outdated CPU microcode versions as a security vulnerability. With Intel routinely issuing new CPU microcode updates for security vulnerabilities and addressing other functional issues, the Linux kernel would begin warning users when recognizing that outdated CPU microcode is deployed for a given processor. That patch has now been queued into a tip/tip.git branch and thus looking like it will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle...

Linux Patch Queued To Report Outdated Intel CPU Microcode As A Vulnerability  Phoronix

Open source AI is the new Linux, only faster  TechSpot

These 7 WSL programs changed how I use Windows  XDA

With the recently released AMD ROCm 6.4 release for this open-source GPU compute stack for Radeon and Instinct hardware there are yet more indications around AMD's growing software ecosystem expansion. With ROCm 6.4 are additions to the HIP API for allowing linking of SPIR-V code objects, which is the intermediate representation used by Vulkan as well as with OpenCL and other Khronos APIs...

The 5 Linux AppImages I depend on daily - and how to add them to your desktop menu  ZDNET

A 2021 era patch for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has been revived and discussed in recent days around simplifying the memcpy and memset inlining strategies when compiling code with the "-mtune=generic" option. The patch takes the approach during that generic tuning to try to avoid branches. In doing so, some nice performance benefits are observed in some benchmarks...

These 6 lightweight Linux apps let older PCs run blazing fast  ZDNET

5 amazing Linux distros that are better than Windows, but you should avoid as a beginner  XDA

5 amazing Linux distros that are better than Windows, but you should avoid them as a beginner  XDA