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Linux 6.3-rc1 Brings File-System Optimizations, HID-BPF, More Intel & AMD Features

Phoronix - Mon, 03/06/2023 - 07:29
The merge window for Linux 6.3 is now over and Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.3-rc1...

Linux 6.3 Drops Support For The Intel ICC Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 03/06/2023 - 04:23
On this last day of the Linux 6.3 kernel merge window, Linus Torvalds merged the patch dropping support for Intel (ICC) compiler support. Specifically this is Intel's long-standing ICC compiler now known as the "Intel C++ Compiler Classic" prior to its transition to being LLVM/Clang-based with the modern Intel DPC++ compiler...

Testing The First PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD On Linux Has Been Disappointing

Phoronix - Mon, 03/06/2023 - 02:48
This past week saw the first two consumer PCIe 5.0 NVMe solid-state drives released to retail: the Gigabyte AORUS Gen5 10000 and the Inland TD510. I've been testing the Inland TD510 2TB Gen 5 NVMe SSD the past few days. While in simple I/O testing it can hit speeds almost up to 10,000 MB/s reads and writes, for more complex workloads it quickly dropped against popular PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe SSD options. In my testing thus far of this first consumer Gen5 NVMe SSD it's left me far from impressed.

Latest System76 Intel-Powered Laptops Added To Coreboot

Phoronix - Sun, 03/05/2023 - 21:46
Merged on Saturday to upstream Coreboot was support for some of the latest Intel Alderlake (and signs of Raptor Lake) powered laptops from Linux vendor System76...

Linux Landing Change To Allow STIBP When Using Legacy IBRS

Phoronix - Sun, 03/05/2023 - 19:31
Ahead of the Linux 6.3-rc1 release later today, a set of "x86/urgent" patches were sent out Sunday morning that include the change to allow Single Threaded Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP) to be used in the presence of legacy Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) for security reasons...

Wine-Staging 8.3 Released With Fix For MeshroomCL

Phoronix - Sun, 03/05/2023 - 18:56
Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.3 is a new release of Wine-Staging, the experimental/testing blend of this software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux. Wine-Staging 8.3 carries more than 500 patches atop the upstream Wine code-base...

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