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NTFS Driver Lands Some Late Feature Enhancements For Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2024 - 03:23
While the Linux 6.12 merge window has been closed for more than one week, the modern NTFS "NTFS3" driver has seen some late feature enhancements as well as some fixes merged today for this new kernel version...

Arm's Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Support Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Wed, 10/09/2024 - 02:26
For more than one year Arm engineers have been working on Guarded Control Stack "GCS" support for the Linux kernel as a means of protecting against return-oriented programming (ROP) sttacks with modern AArch64 processors. It looks like for Linux 6.13 this Arm GCS support will be ready for upstreaming...

Intel Xeon 6980P 1S Performance With DDR5-6400/MRDIMM-8800

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2024 - 22:40
With the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarking at Phoronix the past few weeks it's been in a dual socket (2S / 2P) configuration. For those curious about the Intel Xeon 6980P 128-core server performance for a single socket (1S) configuration, here are those complementary results out today and for both DDR5-6400 and MRDIMM-8800 memory configurations. Thus a well-rounded look at the single Xeon 6980P performance compared to other single and dual socket Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server processors.

Intel's Rendering Toolkit Turns To More Open, Community-Welcoming Development Model

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2024 - 21:51
Intel's oneAPI Rendering Toolkit with the likes of OSPRay, Embree, OpenVKL, Open Image Denoise, and others has been open-source for years. But it's not been exactly an open-source development model with making it easy for independent contributors to propose code changes. But Intel has now decided to make these projects more like traditional open-source projects and welcoming community contributions -- including from different hardware vendors...

KDE Plasma 6.2 Released With More Desktop Polishing

Phoronix - Tue, 10/08/2024 - 18:58
KDE Plasma 6.2 is now available as the latest refinement to the modern Plasma 6 desktop environment...

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