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NVIDIA 580 Beta Linux Driver Brings Fixes, Wayland fifo-v1 Support With Vulkan

Phoronix - Mon, 08/04/2025 - 22:55
NVIDIA today published the v580.65.06 as their first beta driver version in the new NVIDIA 580 Linux driver series...

AppArmor For Linux 6.17 Set To Introduce AF_UNIX Mediation, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 08/04/2025 - 20:45
Canonical engineer John Johansen sent out the AppArmor pull request today for the Linux 6.17 merge window that is heavy on changes for this Linux kernel security module...

Google Preparing To Ship Chrome With "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" For Wayland

Phoronix - Mon, 08/04/2025 - 18:44
Google Chrome/Chromium is preparing to ship with "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" functionality by default so the web browser will play nicer out-of-the-box with Wayland...

Linux 6.17 Making Kdump Crash Kernel More Reliable, Less Wasted Memory

Phoronix - Mon, 08/04/2025 - 18:30
In addition to the many MM changes merged this weekend for Linux 6.17, Andrew Morton on Sunday also sent out his "non-MM" pull request for this new kernel. Notable there is improving the Kdump code to allow for crash kernel reservation made from the contiguous memory allocator to help yield less wasted RAM and greater reliability...

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