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Oracle OLED Wants To Help Improve The Debugability Of The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 01/14/2025 - 02:25
Oracle today announced the Oracle Linux Enhanced Diagnostics (OLED) as their newest project that aims to enhance the debugability of the Linux kernel...

GNOME Shell 48 Alpha Introduces Screen Time / Health Breaks, Mutter 48 Alpha Out Too

Phoronix - Tue, 01/14/2025 - 00:50
The "48.alpha" releases of GNOME Shell and Mutter were tagged on Sunday for this week's release of the GNOME 48 Alpha in leading up to the GNOME 48.0 stable release in mid-March...

DXVK 2.5.3 Brings More Fixes For Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 On Vulkan

Phoronix - Mon, 01/13/2025 - 23:54
Philip Rebohle working for Valve has just released DXVK 2.5.3 as the newest update to this Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 implementation over the Vulkan API that is used for enjoying older Windows games on Linux...

Linux Attack Vector Controls Updated To More Easily Controlling CPU Security Mitigations

Phoronix - Mon, 01/13/2025 - 23:16
Last year an AMD engineer proposed the notion of "Attack Vector Controls" for the Linux kernel to re-think how the CPU security mitigation handling is done and making it easier for system administrators/users to toggle the mitigations they are concerned about or not...

A Microsoft-Contributed Change To Linux 6.13 Is Causing A Last Minute Ruckus

Phoronix - Mon, 01/13/2025 - 21:40
A change to the Linux 6.13 kernel contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up changing Linux x86_64 code without proper authorization and in turn causing troubles for users and now set to be disabled ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable release expected next Sunday...

Alibaba Engineers Work To Address Suspend/Resume Bugs With The AMD Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 01/13/2025 - 20:00
Alibaba engineers have recently been working through some AMD Linux kernel graphics driver bugs uncovered during suspend-and-resume testing with AMD graphics cards...

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