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PUNKCAKE Délicieux just added Linux support to a whole bunch of games  GamingOnLinux

Patches posted today by an Intel engineer allow for importing scanout buffers from other devices with the VirtIO DRM driver that is used in the virtualization space. The importing of scanout buffers from other devices/drivers can allow for more efficient use by avoiding excess copies...

Adding to the Linux 6.9 features is a minor post merge window change: the read-only EROFS file-system is no longer treading its FSDAX support as experimental...

EROFS Drops "Experimental" Warning For FSDAX With Linux 6.9  Phoronix

Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso recently began the effort of creating an open-source, reverse-engineered driver for the Rockchip NPU found in some of the latest Rockchip SoCs. After succeeding at open-source NPU driver support for the VeriSilicon NPU IP, Vizoso took up the challenge of working on Rockchip NPU support. With his open-source user-space driver he's already got his first model running. Not only is it running but it's doing so at similar performance to the proprietary driver...

Some time ago I ran through a number of benchmarks of Google Cloud's C3D VMs powered by AMD EPYC Genoa processors. The AMD EPYC 9004 series showed terrific performance with strong generational improvements over the Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Following that a request came in to examine the PingCAP TiDB database performance given its growing popularity. In this article we'll review those benchmarks showing how GCE C3D delivers strong performance advantages for TiDB.

Achronix FPGAs add support for Bluespec’s Linux-capable RISC-V soft processors  New Electronics

Analysis of DinodasRAT Linux implant  Securelist

Mastering Linux Disk Management: LVM and Disk Partitioning  Linux Journal

THine's ISP THP7312 is available in the Linux mainline kernel  Electronics Weekly

Samba 4.20 is out as the newest feature update to this free software implementation for SMB networking protocol support and others to enhance file/print interoperability with Microsoft Windows systems...

Lilbits: Another Linux laptop update, another Rockchip processor, another Pixel 9 leak  Liliputing

Pop!_OS Upgrades To The Linux 6.8 Kernel  Phoronix

Besides its desktop-level customizations, further differentiating System76's Pop!_OS Linux distribution from its Ubuntu LTS package base is the tendency to roll down newer versions of the upstream Linux kernel once validated across System76's portfolio of laptops and desktops. The latest on that front is Pop!_OS now shipping with the fresh Linux 6.8 stable series...

Use sudo insults to add spice to incorrect password attempts  TechTarget

USENIX Security ’23 – DDRace: Finding Concurrency UAF Vulnerabilities in Linux Drivers with Directe...  Security Boulevard

EA Anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Following several days of discussions from both sides of the table over whether SDL 3.0 should revert its Wayland over X11 preference in light of some aspects of the Wayland ecosystem support not being in good shape, for now at least SDL 3.0 is sticking to the Wayland support by default. It may be revisited though closer to release to see how the upstream support is for users of this hardware/software abstraction library widely used by cross-platform games...

SDL3 Will Keep Wayland Default At Least For The Time Being  Phoronix

Canonical Continues Exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Images - Now In Microsoft's Cloud  Phoronix