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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...

Alpine Linux 3.23 Released With APK Tools v3 For Package Management

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 04:52
Alpine Linux 3.23 is out today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Linux distribution built around musl libc and BusyBox that has become quite popular for containers and embedded uses...

Intel's Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Delivered Significant Improvements In 2025

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 01:30
Last week I provided a look at how Intel's GPU compute performance on Battlemage evolved in 2025. In today's article is a similar Intel Arc A-Series "Alchemist" and B-Series "Battlemage" look at how the OpenGL and Vulkan graphics performance has evolved over the past year. Simply put, the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver stack has evolved immensely this year... Not just for Vulkan but even the OpenGL support continues moving in the right direction too.

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