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Red Hat Developing "F-UKI" For Handling Firmware With Confidential VMs

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 21:55
Red Hat engineer Anirban Sinha presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend in Brussels on F-UKI, a new project being worked on at Red Hat as part of the confidential computing push for loading guest firmware within a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) for confidential VMs...

New Linux Patches Yield Up To 3.3x Faster AES-CTR Performance On AMD Zen 5 CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 19:52
Google engineer Eric Biggers is known for some of his great crypto performance optimization patches to benefit the Linux kernel and his most recent patch series is yielding some very tantalizing results for AMD Zen 5 processors whether it be the Ryzen 9000 series, Ryzen AI 300 series, or EPYC 9005 server processors...

cURL 8.12 Released With Its Rust Hyper Backend Removed

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 19:36
Back in December was word that cURL would be dropping its "Hyper" Rust HTTP back-end due to little demand and lack of developer interest for that experimental code. The cURL 8.12 release is out today with Hyper stripped out...

GNOME Mutter 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, Gdctl Utility

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 19:22
The GNOME Mutter 48 compositor beta is now available for testing as part of this week's GNOME 48 beta milestone...

How to Install Thunderbird 135 on a Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 13:15
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Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open-source, cross-platform email, calendar, news, chat, and contact management client that is designed to handle

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Microsoft Lands Direct3D 12 Video Encode Improvements For HEVC In Mesa 25.1

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 09:54
While having missed the mark last week for making it into this quarter's Mesa 25.0 release, merged for Q2's Mesa 25.1 release by Microsoft engineers are some enhancements to the Direct3D 12 video encode capabilities...

GRUB Continues Working Toward Its Next Release In 2025

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 05:54
As somewhat of an annual tradition for the FOSDEM conference, Daniel Kiper of Oracle presented a status update on the GRUB bootloader. As one of the GRUB maintainers he offers great insight to activity around this most common Linux bootloader...

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