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Mageia 8 Released - Flips On AMDGPU For Older GCN GPUs, Better ARM Support

Phoronix - Sat, 02/27/2021 - 09:16
Mageia 8 is out today as a significant and long overdue update to this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva/Mandrake lineage...

Wine 6.3 Released With Several Low-Level Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 02/27/2021 - 05:04
Wine 6.3 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot of this free software solution for running Windows games and applications under Linux and macOS...

Kernel Electric-Fence: Linux 5.12 Merges KFence For Low-Overhead Memory Safety Feature

Phoronix - Sat, 02/27/2021 - 02:52
Linus Torvalds just merged a set of patches that includes KFence. Short for the Kernel Electric Fence, KFence is a low-overhead memory safety error detector/validator that is suitable for use in production kernel builds...

RISC-V With Linux 5.12 Begins Mainlining SiFive's FU740 Support, NUMA

Phoronix - Sat, 02/27/2021 - 01:32
The Linux 5.12 merge window is drawing to a close this weekend while being sent in this morning were the RISC-V updates that tend to excite the free software enthusiasts...

Watch Out For Possible Data Loss On Early Linux 5.12 Kernels

Phoronix - Fri, 02/26/2021 - 23:00
As a quick PSA for those that may be eager to test out early Git builds of the Linux 5.12 kernel, I've been hitting a very nasty issue on multiple systems leading to corruption / data loss...

Linux 5.12 To Expose Firmware Performance Data

Phoronix - Fri, 02/26/2021 - 20:22
Last week saw the main set of ACPI and power management updates for Linux 5.12 while for the second week of the merge window has been the follow-up work with Intel Simple Firmware Interface removal and also an additional ACPI update...

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