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Linux 6.13-rc4 Released For Kernel Testing Ahead Of The Holidays

Phoronix - Mon, 12/23/2024 - 05:30
Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.13-rc4 kernel as the newest weekly test release leading up to Linux 6.13 stable by mid to late January...

OpenShot 3.3 Open-Source Video Editor Brings New Default Theme, Better Wayland Support

Phoronix - Mon, 12/23/2024 - 04:01
OpenShot 3.3 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular open-source video editor. This Qt-based cross-platform non-linear video editor has a new default theme and many other enhancements in time for editing any of your year-end or holiday videos...

Linux Kernel Patches To Use AMD INVLPGB Instruction Show Huge Speed-Up

Phoronix - Sun, 12/22/2024 - 22:27
Since AMD Zen 3 processors there has been the INVLPGB instruction for invalidating TLB entries for a range of pages with broadcast. As mentioned back during the AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" launch, INVLPGB usage around this new instruction was limited... Over the past nearly four years the INVLPGB use has been limited in part because Intel CPUs do not support it but there is now a Linux kernel patch series for making use of INVLPGB for some nice performance benefits...

Intel To Use Both Family 18 And Family 19 Identification For Upcoming CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 12/22/2024 - 20:14
Intel processors have long identified in the Family 6 series going back to the 1990s but over the past number of months Intel engineers have been adapting the Linux kernel to prepare for a post Family 6 Intel CPU era for the model/family CPU identification handling. Patches posted in September introduced Diamond Rapids support as the first Intel Family 19 CPU while new patches for the Linux kernel are indicating Intel will be using both Family 18 and Family 19 identification for future processor models...

LLVM 20 Merges An Initial Telemetry Framework

Phoronix - Sun, 12/22/2024 - 19:49
Merged this week to the LLVM Git codebase ahead of next year's LLVM 20 release is a simple telemetry framework...

Linux Driver Posted For The EC Found On Most Snapdragon X1 Laptops

Phoronix - Sun, 12/22/2024 - 19:32
For those interested in making use of Linux on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops that have been appearing since earlier this year, there's a new embedded controller (EC) driver posted for the Linux kernel for this EC that's found on most of the X1 laptop models...

SysVinit 3.12 Brings Fixes & Better Documentation For Christmas

Phoronix - Sun, 12/22/2024 - 19:23
For devoted SysVinit users trying to avoid systemd still on Linux systems in 2025, SysVinit 3.12 has been released for the holidays with the latest fixes to this open-source init system...

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