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NVIDIA Confirms Some Rosa CPU Details With Its Rigel Core

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2026 - 23:27
In a blog post today talking up the single threaded CPU performance of their Vera CPU with Olympus cores, NVIDIA confirmed a few basic details of their next-gen Rosa CPU featuring their "Rigel" core...

NVIDIA 610.43.03 Linux Driver Released With Unspecified Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2026 - 22:58
NVIDIA today published their latest stable driver update for Linux customers in their newest R610 release branch...

TUXEDO Computers Switching TUXEDO OS From Ubuntu To Debian Testing

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2026 - 20:06
Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers announced they are switching from Ubuntu to Debian as the base for their TUXEDO OS platform...

AF_ALG "Nightmare" Being Further Limited In Linux 7.3 With New Sysctl Knob

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2026 - 18:24
The Linux kernel's AF_ALG interface was deprecated in Linux 7.2. This interface for letting user-space programs interact directly with the Linux kernel crypto API has proven to be a "massive attack surface" due to a variety of security concerns. With its deprecation in Linux 7.2, some AF_ALG features are already removed and for Linux 7.3 this interface is being further restrained...

"I'll Make The Linux Kernel Mailing List Burn": Prominent LLVM Linux Developer Returns

Phoronix - Tue, 07/07/2026 - 18:15
One of the original developers behind the work to allow the Linux kernel to be compiled using LLVM/Clang as an alternative to the GCC compiler is now back in the saddle working on LLVM Linux support. LLVM/Clang support for building the Linux kernel has been important for improving code portability and addressing GCC'isms, making use of LLVM compiler features not yet found with the GNU toolchain, evaluating the performance between GCC and Clang, and all the more important these days with the Linux kernel Rust integration...

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