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Intel Preps VRR Refactoring For Linux 6.16, More Xe3 Panther Lake Display Enablement

Phoronix - Fri, 04/11/2025 - 23:24
Intel graphics driver engineers today sent out their first batch of feature updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of the next Linux 6.16 kernel cycle...

Ubuntu 25.04 vs. Fedora Workstation 42 Performance On AMD Strix Point

Phoronix - Fri, 04/11/2025 - 21:00
With both Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 releasing this month you may be curious how these two Linux distributions are competing for performance. Well, it's a very tight race for common Intel/AMD x86_64 hardware. In this article are some benchmarks looking at clean installs of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42 on AMD Strix Point.

OpenVPN DCO Driver For The Linux Kernel Revised A 25th Time To Boost VPN Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 04/11/2025 - 20:42
For those relying on OpenVPN for your virtual private networking (VPN) needs, one of the most exciting innovations in recent times besides transitioning to the WireGuard alternative is the OpenVPN DCO kernel driver. This "data channel offload" driver has the potential to provide significant performance advantages over the current OpenVPN performance...

Linux 6.15 Fixes Intel Graphics Flickering Issue, Adds AMDGPU DMEM Cgroups Support

Phoronix - Fri, 04/11/2025 - 18:19
With being just one week past the Linux 6.15 merge window, a lot of fixes have been flowing into the mainline tree as is usual for the early stages of the kernel cycle. Merged overnight were a number of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes that include some notable alterations for the Intel and AMD Radeon kernel graphics drivers...

Haiku OS Continued Improving Hardware Driver Support In March

Phoronix - Fri, 04/11/2025 - 18:04
The Haiku OS open-source operating system inspired by BeOS has issued their newest monthly development report...

IBM z17 Open-Source Compiler Support Now Being Officially Recognized

Phoronix - Fri, 04/11/2025 - 17:24
Earlier this week IBM announced the z17 mainframes powered by Tellum I processors. But months prior we've seen IBM patches for an "arch15" target for SystemZ within the open-source compilers that we expected was z17. IBM has now confirmed such and has begun updating the open-source compilers to acknowledge this z17 compiler support...

How to Verify Debian and Ubuntu Packages Using MD5 Checksums

Tecmint - Fri, 04/11/2025 - 13:00
The post How to Verify Debian and Ubuntu Packages Using MD5 Checksums first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Have you ever wondered why a given binary or package installed on your system does not work according to your

The post How to Verify Debian and Ubuntu Packages Using MD5 Checksums first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux 6.15 Lands Patches To Further Clean Up Its Spectre RSB Mitigations

Phoronix - Fri, 04/11/2025 - 08:49
Merged today was this week's batch of x86 fixes ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc2 release on Sunday. Notable with these x86 fixes are landing several patches to fix and clean-up the Spectre Return Stack Buffer "RSB" mitigation handling as well as introducing a new document to clarify the overall state and current mitigations...

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