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Zlib-rs 0.5.3 Expands AVX-512 Usage For Faster Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 19:20
The Trifecta Tech Foundation today released zlib-rs 0.5.3 as the newest version of this Zlib implementation written in the Rust programming language for better memory safety. Zlib-rs is advertised as "a safer Zlib" for use by both C and Rust projects while delivering competitive performance to the C-based zlib-ng...

Linux 6.19 Will Allow Enforcing IPE Security Checks On Indirectly Executed Scripts

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 19:07
Linux's Integrity Policy Enforcement "IPE" module is gaining a useful addition with the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel...

Mesa 25.3.1 Released With Initial Set Of Fixes, Mesa 25.2 Comes To An End

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 18:54
Mesa 25.3.1 was released overnight as the first point release of the Mesa 25.3 series. The Mesa point releases are typically bi-weekly but this one dragged out to nearly three weeks. In turn this also marks an end to the Mesa 25.2 series...

EXT4 Optimizes Online Defragmentation, Improves Performance & Larger Block Sizes

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 18:42
The merged EXT4 changes for Linux 6.19 bring some of the most prominent feature changes in recent times for this mature and widely-used Linux file-system...

ReactOS Lands Improvements For Its USB Stack - Fixing Various Blue Screens of Death

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 09:31
ReactOS as the open-source operating system aiming to be an "open-source Windows" by striving for binary compatibility with Windows programs and device drivers is now slightly better with its USB support...

Linux 6.19 Goes Ahead And Enables Microsoft C Extensions Support

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 09:14
Last month I reported on Linux 6.19 looking to enable Microsoft C Extensions support throughout the Linux kernel with setting the -fms-extensions compiler option to allow Microsoft C Extensions when building the kernel. Linus Torvalds today merged that support without objections...

Getting Started with OpenShift Virtualization

Red Hat News - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 08:00
There are many reasons you might be running a virtual machine (VM) at your organization, and you're probably also using or planning to use containers at the same time. Whether you're looking to migrate away from your current virtualization platform or you're just looking for a unified platform for both VMs and containers, Red Hat OpenShift is a centralized control center for all the services you provide to your users. Here's how to get started with OpenShift Virtualization, a feature of Red Hat OpenShift.Install OpenShift and virtualization operatorsTo use OpenShift Virtualization, you must ha

Sched_EXT With Linux 6.19 Improves Recovering For Misbehaving eBPF Schedulers

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 06:30
The Linux kernel's innovative sched_ext code for being able to easily write extensible task schedulers using eBPF programs has some nice enhancements merged for Linux 6.19...

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