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While Rust is viewed as a memory safe and robust programming language, there is the "unsafe" keyword within Rust that can be used for unsafe code that grants "unsafe superpowers" for the language. As dealing with Rust at low-levels as the Linux kernel can lead to needing to use "unsafe" Rust at times, a documentation standard has been proposed for dealing with such code inside the kernel...

Rust Safety Standard Proposed For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

A new Windows alternative could launch on PCs later this year  MSN

It's been a wild two years since NVIDIA began publishing an open-source Linux GPU kernel driver for Turing GPUs and newer. With the latest NVIDIA 555 Linux driver series that open-source kernel driver support is in great shape and NVIDIA today is out with a lengthy blog post promoting it...

NVIDIA Promotes Their Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Support  Phoronix

Is Linux the future of vehicle computers? Wind River and NETA Auto’s collaboration suggests yes  BetaNews

Wind River Linux for Intelligent Domain Controller ...  eeNews Europe

Say goodbye to Microsoft Windows 11: Nobara 40 is the Linux-based operating system you need!  BetaNews

Say goodbye to Microsoft Windows 11: Nobara 40 is the Linux-based operating system you need!  BetaNews

RADV vs. AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance For Mid-2024  Phoronix

Last week with delivering a number of AMD vs. NVIDIA Vulkan ray-tracing benchmarks under Linux with the current drivers and using the new "Breaking Limit" benchmark, the question was raised how well does AMD's official "AMDVLK" Vulkan driver handle ray-tracing these days compared to the more popular Mesa RADV Vulkan driver used commonly by Linux gamers and as the default driver on most Linux distributions. Here is a fresh look at the RADV versus AMDVLK Vulkan performance on Linux with a focus on ray-tracing performance.

The power management updates have been merged for Linux 6.11 that include some nice improvements for Intel and AMD processors...

AMD Core Performance Boost & Fast CPPC Land In Linux 6.11, Intel Lunar Lake Improvements  Phoronix

How to run Linux and Windows on iPhone and iPad  Cult of Mac

Wind River Linux Used to Develop NETA Auto Intelligent Domain Controller XPC for Software-Defined Vehicles  Business Wire

Wind River Linux Used to Develop NETA Auto Intelligent Domain Controller XPC for Software-Defined Vehicles  Chronicle-Tribune

The "x86/bugs" code has been merged for the Linux 6.11 kernel that is just three patches this go around but includes a new Spectre BHI mitigation option...

spectre_bhi=vmexit Mitigation Merged For Linux 6.11 Cloud Use  Phoronix

Wind River Linux Used to Develop NETA Auto Intelligent Domain Controller XPC for Software-Defined Vehicles  Silicon UK

Top 10 Stories About Compute Engines, Linux of 2024 (So Far)  ITPro Today