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Manjaro Linux Working On "Manjaro Data Donor" As New Data Collection Tool

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 22:00
Arch-based Manjaro Linux is working on Manjaro Data Donor "MDD" as a new data collection tool of its users. This is intended to succeed their former ping-based solution for user counting plus incorporate hardware/software data collection on users. Once deployed, this will be opt-out handling for the data collection...

Fujitsu Monaka CPU Target Added To GCC 15 Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 21:28
Fujitsu has upstreamed support for their next-gen "Monaka" Armv9 processor into the GNU Compiler Collection codebase in time for the GCC 15 release coming out early next year...

F2FS File-System Adding Device Aliasing Feature For Nifty Uses

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 20:00
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is adding a device aliasing file feature that could appear in the upcoming Linux v6.13 merge window...

Platform Profile Support Coming For Newer Dell/Alienware Laptops With Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 19:33
Select newer Dell/Alienware laptops with a "WMAX" thermal interface will see ACPI Platform Profile support now exposed with the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle...

AMD Posts New Linux Mitigation Handling For SRSO/Inception

Phoronix - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 19:17
AMD Linux engineer Borislav Petkov kicked off the new week by volleying a patch for adjusting the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO, a.k.a. "Inception") vulnerability mitigation handling for capabilities to be found with affected processors running on newer CPU microcode...

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