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New Linux Kernel Code Written in Rust Aims to Eliminate Memory Safety Bugs  GBHackers

Linux users take note, ExpressVPN has released its biggest app update to date  Tom's Guide

Box64 0.3.4 is out today as the newest version of this open-source Linux x86_64 user-space emulator that runs on ARM64 as well as RISC-V 64-bit and LoongArch 64-bit systems...

Box64 0.3.4 Released: Faster & Steam Now Runs With Box32 On ARM64  Phoronix

While the Asahi AGX Gallium3D and Honeykrisp Vulkan drivers continue to be developed within mainline Mesa for supporting OpenGL and Vulkan with Apple Silicon M1/M2 SoCs, the necessary Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver has yet to be upstreamed. But hitting the mailing list today is a patch getting the user-space API (UAPI) with more eyes on as the precursor to the actual kernel driver that is currently held up by waiting on Rust kernel abstractions to be upstreamed...

Audacity 3.7.2 Improves the Linux AppImage Bundle for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS  9to5Linux

Google Will Enable Android Phones With Ability To Run Debian Linux Soon  Hot Hardware

With the new AMD EPYC 9005 processors there are SKUs up to 500 Watt with the likes of the EPYC 9965 flagship at 192 cores for Turin Dense cores or 128 Turin classic cores with the EPYC 9755. But for those looking at upgrading from an existing EPYC 9004 series server and bound by the motherboard BIOS support and/or cooling/power capacity, 400 Watts is a sweet spot. Many of the existing platforms designed for EPYC 9004 Bergamo/Genoa(X) and now extended for EPYC 9005 Turin are limited to a 400 Watt TDP. With the prior AMD EPYC 9655 testing I have already shown off the great Zen 5 uplift when maintaining the same core counts as Zen 4, but even sticking to 400 Watts at the top-end is room for more. The EPYC 9845 is AMD's top-end SKU for 400 Watts or less that allows for 160 dense cores (320 threads) per socket compared to the 128 core EPYC 9754 Bergamo. Effectively the same power level and 25% more -- and better (Zen 5C) -- cores. Plus with EPYC Turin supporting the new AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver there is greater headroom in optimizing for power efficiency if so desired. Here is a look at how the AMD EPYC 9845 delivers a great leap to performance and power efficiency for those looking at a surprisingly robust upgrade from prior generation EPYC 9004.

Discussion Rust drivers in Linux kernel drags on  Techzine Europe

Fedora 42 isn't even releasing until next month but a number of early change proposals have been filed for the upcoming Fedora 43 development cycle that will be released this autumn...

ASUS PRIME X670E-PRO WIFI & AMD BC-250 Sensor Monitoring With Linux 6.15  Phoronix

The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates are building up ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening up later this month. Here is a look at a few of the HWMON changes worth mentioning to be found in this next version of the Linux kernel...

Along with other exciting Intel kernel graphics driver updates submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window, another batch of drm-intel-next code was sent out today to DRM-Next. This pull request is mostly around bug fixing and other low-level work but it does provide a new "dirty rect" feature being introduced with next-gen Intel Xe3 graphics...

In hopefully helping Asahi Linux reduce their downstream patch burden and helping to enhance the overall flow of new Apple Silicon related code into the mainline Linux kernel, another developer has agreed to serve as an official code reviewer over the ARM Apple bits within the Linux kernel...

Linux's ARM Apple Support Now Has Another Code Reviewer  Phoronix

Can Linux Enable Safer SDVs?  EE Times Europe

Nvidia Driver Written in Rust Could Arrive With Linux Kernel 6.15  It's FOSS News

Vibes won’t make your software successful  InfoWorld

AlmaLinux and the State of Open Source Enterprise Linux – benny Vasquez – ESW #397  SC Media

Kali laid bare: the most famous Linux hacking distro of all time  TechRadar