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Intel SGX With Linux 6.16 Less Likely To Cause Fatal Machine Checks

Phoronix - Fri, 05/30/2025 - 18:29
Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) updates for the in-development Linux 6.16 contain a fix so SGX is now less likely to cause a fatal machine check...

Coredump Socket Support Merged For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Fri, 05/30/2025 - 18:16
As an alternative to Coredumps dumping to a file or a pipe connected to a user-mode helper process, Linux 6.16 is introducing the ability to send Coredumps over an AF_UNIX socket...

Intel IPU7 Firmware Binaries Upstreamed For Lunar Lake Webcameras

Phoronix - Fri, 05/30/2025 - 18:06
Overnight Intel upstreamed their IPU7 firmware binaries into the linux-firmware.git repository where Linux distributions will then be able to pick them up for easy consumption. IPU7 is for their latest Image Processing Unit for some web cameras on their latest-generation Lunar Lake platform...

F2FS Improvements Merged For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Fri, 05/30/2025 - 17:53
Following the exciting EXT4 performance work, XFS atomic writes, and other exciting file-system pull requests submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.16 merge window, the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes have been submitted and merged for this next kernel version...

OBS Studio 31.1 Bringing Multitrack Video Support To Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 05/30/2025 - 08:28
OBS Studio 31.1 Beta 1 is out today as the newest version of this popular cross-platform and open-source solution for gaming live streaming, desktop screencasting, and similar screencasting/live-streaming uses...

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