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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...

Fish 3.4 Shell Released With Faster Globbing, Improved Command Substitution Syntax

Phoronix - Sun, 03/20/2022 - 00:42
Fish 3.4 is out as the newest version of this popular shell particularly among enthusiasts/hobbyists...

IO_uring Gets New Features & Speed-Ups With Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Sat, 03/19/2022 - 19:11
The Linux 5.17 kernel will be released tomorrow and in turn that will kickoff the start of the Linux 5.18 merge window. Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe has already begun submitting his feature pull requests for this next kernel, including the IO_uring updates...

Sound Open Firmware 2.1-rc1 Released

Phoronix - Sat, 03/19/2022 - 18:05
The Intel-led Sound Open Firmware project for providing open-source firmware for newer Intel audio hardware and even support for some AMD audio hardware is nearing its v2.1 release...

Patches Pending That Bring Vulkan 1.3 To Lavapipe

Phoronix - Sat, 03/19/2022 - 17:58
The recent work around Lavapipe picking up many new Vulkan extensions is culminating with Vulkan 1.3 support for this CPU-based Vulkan software implementation...

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