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NVIDIA Posts Initial Linux Patches For Extended GPU Memory "EGM" Virtualization

Phoronix - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 21:10
NVIDIA engineer Ankit Agrawal today posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series working on Linux virtualization support for Extended GPU Memory (EGM)...

Ubuntu 25.10 Proceeding With Its Rust Coreutils Transition

Phoronix - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 20:11
Following sudo-rs becoming the default sudo implementation in Ubuntu 25.10 as of a few days ago, Canonical is also proceeding with its transition of using the Rust version of Coreutils for this next Ubuntu Linux release...

Miracle-WM 0.7 Brings Mouse/Keyboard Configuration, Enhances Sway IPC Compatibility

Phoronix - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 18:44
Miracle-WM is the Wayland compositor built atop Canonical's Mir project with a focus on tiling and inspired by Sway/i3. Miracle-WM 0.7 is now available for advancing this Mir-powered Wayland experience with additional functionality now in place...

Fedora 44 Change Proposal Aims To Ensure A Nice Wine/Proton + NTSYNC Experience

Phoronix - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 18:34
A change proposal filed for next year's Fedora 44 release wants to aim for a nice experience when running Wine or the Proton variants supporting the Linux kernel's NTSYNC driver for better emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives...

Microsoft Building Out Its "OS Guard" Functionality For Azure Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 18:21
A new feature Microsoft has been working on for its Azure Linux operating system is OS Guard as a container-host platform that enforces immutability, code integrity, mandatory access control, and other features. Microsoft quietly revealed more about OS Guard last month and yesterday's release of Azure Linux 3.0.20250822 builds out more of the OS Guard functionality...

Linux Mint 22.2 Officially Released With Fingwit, UI Tweaks

Phoronix - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 18:08
Linux Mint 22.2 is officially out today as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package base...

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2025.3 With More GenAI Enhancements & Arc Pro B-Series Support

Phoronix - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 17:55
On the same day as beginning to ship the Intel Arc Pro B50 ~$349 USD workstation graphics card, Intel also shipped OpenVINO 2025.3 as the newest feature release for this open-source AI toolkit...

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