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NetBSD 10.0 RC3 Released With A Few Last Minute Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 01/18/2024 - 02:25
After being in development since 2019, the NetBSD 10.0 stable release looks like it will happen soon. Those wanting to help in last minute testing can find NetBSD 10.0 RC3 now available...

Many New Features Approved This Week For Fedora 40

Phoronix - Thu, 01/18/2024 - 02:00
This week the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) signed off on a large number of change proposals for the Fedora 40 release due out in April...

Linux On IBM Z "s390" To See ~11% Higher Syscall Entry Performance On Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Wed, 01/17/2024 - 23:46
For those interested in Linux on IBM Z / s390, there's a small change yielding measurable benefits to the s390 system call entry performance with the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel...

Linux Distributions Now Encouraged To Build GTK With Vulkan

Phoronix - Wed, 01/17/2024 - 23:20
Last week I wrote about GTK landing their new unified GPU renderer and as part of that the Vulkan API support is set to be enabled by default. Linux distribution vendors are being encouraged moving forward to indeed ship with the GTK Vulkan support enabled, so we'll be seeing more Vulkan API use on the Linux desktop with OpenGL slowly fading away...

Linux 6.8 Will Let You Know When x86 32-bit Support Is Disabled

Phoronix - Wed, 01/17/2024 - 22:13
Linux 6.7 introduced the "ia32_emulation=" boot option for enabling/disabling support for x86 32-bit programs and the ability to execute 32-bit system calls. This is part of the effort of some Linux distributions working to restrict x86 32-bit user-space support where not needed in order to reduce the software attack surface while still having a boot-time option for those wanting to enable 32-bit support or to otherwise disable it if your kernel build keeps it enabled...

Red Hat Developing AI Tool "Log Detective" To Help Developers

Phoronix - Wed, 01/17/2024 - 19:47
Jiri Kyjovsky of Red Hat has shared news today of Log Detective, a new tool being developed that will leverage an AI model to help in analyzing build failures for RPM packages...

Mesa Eyes Pulling libdrm Into Its Codebase

Phoronix - Wed, 01/17/2024 - 19:29
Longtime AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has laid out a proposal to integrate the libdrm code within Mesa rather than being maintained as its own separate project...

DRM Driver Changes Already Begin Queuing For Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Wed, 01/17/2024 - 19:18
While the Linux v6.8 kernel merge window isn't even over yet and that kernel not debuting until March, a few days ago the first drm-misc-next pull request was submitted to DRM-Next to begin queuing the open-source graphics/display driver changes that will ultimately be targeting the Linux 6.9 kernel...

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