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New Driver Aims To Improve MSI Laptop Support On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 02/15/2023 - 22:00
A driver submitted for review that hopes to be included upstream in the Linux kernel enhances support for MSI laptops under Linux with more features being enabled...

Linux Looks To Retire Itanium/IA64 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 02/15/2023 - 20:05
It's been many years since Intel Itanium processors made a convincing story and faced a slow demise over the past decade. While the last of the Itanium 9700 "Kittson" processors shipped in 2021, just two years later now the Linux kernel is already looking at possibly seeing its IA-64 support removed over having no maintainers or apparent users...

Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Adds More Desktop Code, Enables WireGuard & Boots systemd-oomd

Phoronix - Wed, 02/15/2023 - 19:35
Microsoft on Tuesday released CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230208 as the latest version of their in-house public Linux distribution that serves a variety of purposes from the cloud down to the Windows Subsystem for Linux...

LoongArch Linux Patches Enable KVM Virtualization

Phoronix - Wed, 02/15/2023 - 18:46
While LoongArch merged for Linux 5.19 last year, that initial kernel port to the Chinese CPU architecture wasn't entirely complete and some Loongson 3A5000 features are still being enabled for the mainline kernel. The latest feature work being carried out by Loongson engineers is for supporting hardware virtualization on the 3A5000 processors with KVM...

15 | February | 2023 - Hackaday

Google News - Wed, 02/15/2023 - 17:06
15 | February | 2023  Hackaday

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