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Linux 6.16 Could See AMD SEV-SNP SVSM vTPM Driver Merged For EPYC CPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 04/12/2025 - 21:16
The Linux 6.16 kernel this summer will likely see the new SNP SVSM vTPM driver introduced for further enhancing the AMD EPYC confidential computing capabilities atop the mainline Linux kernel...

A Fresh Take On Virtual Swap Space Being Pursued For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 04/12/2025 - 18:55
A request for comments (RFC) patch series sent out this week for the Linux kernel is working on the notion of Virtual Swap Space support. The notion of Virtual Swap Space has been talked about for years and even going back to 2011 there's been efforts to redesign the kernel's swap cache along similar lines...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Lands Initial Support For The Wayland Session Restore Protocol

Phoronix - Sat, 04/12/2025 - 18:46
It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma space with the start of a big new feature landing for the Plasma 6.4 desktop...

LibreOffice 25.8 Landing Many Patches For Improving Qt Toolkit Integration

Phoronix - Sat, 04/12/2025 - 18:38
In the past few days there has been an uptick in patches merged for the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite around "Qt Weld" that has been seeing an increasing number of patches over the past few months for enhancing the Qt toolkit integration...

NVIDIA Upstreaming Work For Linux On Their Smart Switch SN4280, SN5610, SN5640

Phoronix - Sat, 04/12/2025 - 18:22
One of many Linux kernel patch series that NVIDIA has been working on recently to upstream to the mainline Linux kernel are the adjustments needed for Linux running on their newest Smart Switch networking products for the data center...

GNOME Now Has A Second Core App Written In TypeScript

Phoronix - Sat, 04/12/2025 - 08:35
GNOME 48 made Decibels the desktop's official audio player and in doing so also became the first GNOME core application written in the TypeScript porting language. There's now a second core app for GNOME written in TypeScript...

AMD Releases ROCm 6.4 Without Any Official RDNA4 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/12/2025 - 03:01
After several ROCm 6.3 point releases, AMD today rolled out ROCm 6.4 as the next update to their open-source GPU/accelerator compute stack and ahead of their big Advancing AI event in June where they will talk about future ROCm work...

Running Linux 6.15 vs. 6.14 Performance With The AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360

Phoronix - Sat, 04/12/2025 - 01:42
So far my testing this week of the Linux 6.15 kernel in its early, post-RC1 state has been going well. No major upsets, yet to uncover any significant performance regressions, and overall has been going smoothly with the many new features/changes in Linux 6.15...

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