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Rex: Proposed Safe Rust Kernel Extensions For The Linux Kernel, In Place Of eBPF

Phoronix - Mon, 12/22/2025 - 22:18
University researchers presented Rex at this month's Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 in Tokyo. Rex is designed for "safe and usable" Rust-based kernel extensions that could serve in place of eBPF programs for extending the Linux kernel functionality...

Linux 7.0 To Remove Support For AMD's Never-Released Ryzen AI NPU2

Phoronix - Mon, 12/22/2025 - 21:55
The upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel (unless it ends up being called Linux 6.20) will drop support for the AMD NPU2 as their second-generation neural processing unit that never ended up being released into any retail products...

NVIDIA's Quest For A "Safe" Linux Kernel For Automobiles, Robotics

Phoronix - Mon, 12/22/2025 - 19:43
NVIDIA engineer Igor Stoppa presented at the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) earlier this month around using Linux in safety-critical environments like automobiles and the current shortcomings of the upstream Linux kernel and the challenges on achieving Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) certifications around the Linux kernel. It's an interesting read/watch around the safety of Linux (or not) for such strict safety environments...

Weston 15.0 Alpha Released With New Protocols, Experimental Vulkan Renderer

Phoronix - Mon, 12/22/2025 - 19:17
After being delayed by three months to allow additional time for new features to land, Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out today as a big feature release for this reference Wayland compositor...

Intel Releases GenAI Examples v1.5 - While Validating This AI Showcase On Old Xeon CPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 12/22/2025 - 19:01
Intel engineers as part of the OPEA Project today released the Generative AI Examples v1.5 update. This "GenAIExamples" open-source project is a collection of GenAI examples as part of showing the capabilities of the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) and also highlighting Intel's hardware strengths for generative AI...

Intel Releases VA-API libva 2.23 Adds AV1 Profile 2 Support

Phoronix - Mon, 12/22/2025 - 18:44
Intel today released libva 2.23 as the newest feature release for this Video Acceleration API "VA-API" reference library implementation. Most significant with libva 2.23 is adding AV1 Profile 2 support...

How to Install LAMP Stack with PHP 8.3 and MariaDB 11 on Ubuntu 24.04

Tecmint - Mon, 12/22/2025 - 14:31
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In this article, we will go through the various steps to install the constituent packages in the LAMP stack with

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