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Red Hat Releases Second Developer Preview Of RHEL 10 For RISC-V

Phoronix - Fri, 06/12/2026 - 23:56
Last year when releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, Red Hat announced a RHEL 10.0 developer preview for RISC-V. Since then that RISC-V developer preview hadn't been updated but now Red Hat has published a new developer preview snapshot based on RHEL 10.2...

The Best Features Of Linux 7.1: FRED, New NTFS Driver & More Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 06/12/2026 - 23:38
On Sunday it's anticipated that Linus Torvalds will released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel. This is a really terrific mid-year update to the Linux kernel! Here's what makes me excited about Linux 7.1...

Ubuntu 26.10 Reaffirms Plans For Switching To Dbus-Broker

Phoronix - Fri, 06/12/2026 - 23:26
Among the many new features planned for Ubuntu 26.10 is switching the default D-Bus implementation over to using the high performance Dbus-Broker drop-in replacement...

Open-Source Success Achieved For Greater Transparency & Security: Running AMD openSIL + Coreboot On EPYC

Phoronix - Fri, 06/12/2026 - 22:00
Ever since AMD announced openSIL in early 2023 for open-source CPU silicon initialization to eventually replace AGESA and enhance their Coreboot support, I have been eager to try it out. The openSIL code drops to date though have just focused on select reference platforms with only aiming for production status in the Zen 6 timeframe. But thanks to 3mdeb porting openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte server motherboard, it's now possible to try out openSIL+Coreboot right now on Zen 5 hardware.

New NTFS Linux Driver Being Improved For Windows Native Symbolic Links

Phoronix - Fri, 06/12/2026 - 21:00
One of the exciting additions to the Linux 7.1 kernel is the introduction of the new NTFS file-system kernel driver. While in good shape already and proving advantageous over other NTFS open-source driver options, one of the initial limitations on it is around Windows native symbolic link handling but that is now in the process of being resolved...

AVX-512 Optimization For Linux RAID Showing Up To 41% Improvement On AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

Phoronix - Fri, 06/12/2026 - 18:42
Linux cryptography subsystem expert Eric Biggers Eric Biggers of Google worked on some pretty nice Intel/AMD x86_64 optimizations over the years. Especially around AVX-512 optimizations within the Linux kernel's crypto code has been one of his many nice improvements to the kernel in recent times. Today he's out with another enticing AVX-512 optimization and this time it's for the software RAID code...

Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware

Phoronix - Fri, 06/12/2026 - 18:39
The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised...

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