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Reverse-Engineered Vivante Driver Brings Improved Performance & Fixes For Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Sun, 06/30/2024 - 18:39
The Etnaviv kernel graphics driver that provides reverse-engineered open-source support for Vivante graphics (and NPU) IP has seen a fresh round of patches ready to go for queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.11 cycle kicking off in mid-July...

Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights

Phoronix - Sun, 06/30/2024 - 18:20
With the first half of the year drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular content on Phoronix so far in 2024. Year to date there has been 1,530 original news articles so far and 78 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles written by your's truly. There has been a lot happening in 2024 from Linux kernel improvements to exciting new hardware and other open-source advances...

Linux 6.10 Lands Improved Support For LG's Latest Laptops

Phoronix - Sun, 06/30/2024 - 18:13
Merged on Saturday ahead of today's Linux 6.10-rc6 release is the latest batch of x86 platform driver changes. Notable as part of this week's fixes is improving support for the very latest (2024) LG laptop models...

Debian 12.6 Released With Many Security Updates & Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 06/30/2024 - 18:05
For those on the Debian stable train, Debian 12.6 is out this weekend as the newest point release to Debian Bookworm...

Linux Prepares New Spectre BHI Mitigation Option For Cloud Environments

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 20:24
For the Branch History Injection variant of Spectre (Spectre BHI) there is a patch pending to add a new mitigation option for that two year old CPU security vulnerability...

Chrome's Coreboot Firmware Adapting For 64-bit Boot, Prepping For Intel Panther Lake

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 18:39
The Open-Source Firmware Foundation is out with an interesting blog post by Google firmware engineer Subrata Banik around adapting the Coreboot-based Chrome AP Firmware for 64-bit booting. The transition to 64-bit booting is happening for the system firmware powering Chromebooks and other Chrome devices and is driven in part for Intel Panther Lake generation hardware...

GNOME Ends Out June With New Libadwaita Addition, Optional Building Without X11

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 18:23
This Week in GNOME is out with the latest summary to highlight all of the interesting changes this week...

Niri 0.1.7 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds Fractional Scaling

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 17:49
Niri 0.1.7 is out today as the latest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. While the version number may not signify it, Niri 0.1.7 is quite a notable feature update...

KDE Developers Fix More Bugs For Plasma 6.1, Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.2

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 17:33
KDE developers have still been busy addressing early fallout from the Plasma 6.1 desktop that released earlier this month while also beginning more feature activity for Plasma 6.2...

RHCSA Series: Learn to Operate and Manage Linux Servers – Part 7

Tecmint - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 13:22
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As a Linux System Administrator, you need to have a firm grasp of basic administration concepts for you to effectively

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