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SDL3 Preview Release Aims To Help Test The New SDL 3.0 API

Phoronix - Sun, 03/24/2024 - 23:22
Sam Lantinga released an SDL preview release today of SDL3 for helping to encourage developers to test out the new SDL 3.0 API...

KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.9 Brings More Optimizations For Intel & AMD

Phoronix - Sun, 03/24/2024 - 23:00
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes for Linux 6.9 continue to enhance the capabilities of the open-source Linux virtualization software stack...

Rust-Written Coreutils 0.0.25 With Improved GNU Compatibility

Phoronix - Sun, 03/24/2024 - 22:25
Out this weekend is a new version of uutils' Coreutils 0.0.25 as the Rust-written drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils for common utilities found on Linux platforms and other systems...

Linux 6.9 Improves Speakup - Its In-Kernel Speech Synthesizer

Phoronix - Sun, 03/24/2024 - 22:10
The speakup driver that's long existed within the Linux kernel is a speech synthesizer that can interface with various synthesizer hardware and from user-space software can interface with /dev/synth for submitting data to the synthesizer. With Linux 6.9 the speakup driver is seeing two useful improvements...

Linux 6.9 Delivers More Improvements To The SLUB Allocator

Phoronix - Sun, 03/24/2024 - 21:51
Linux 6.8 dropped the SLAB allocator after its deprecation in v6.5 and now just leaving SLUB for all allocation duties. For Linux 6.9 there is continued cleaning from that SLAB removal as well as making more SLUB improvements...

Linux 6.9 Sees Further Security Hardening

Phoronix - Sun, 03/24/2024 - 18:58
With security concerns at all-time highs in the industry, Linux 6.9 is seeing yet more work to beef up its security hardening with various additional safety checks and other compile-time defenses for ensuring security best practices...

IO_uring With Linux 6.9 Gains Truncate Support, Per-Ring NAPI

Phoronix - Sun, 03/24/2024 - 18:43
The IO_uring changes were merged early during the nearly-over Linux 6.9 merge window. This round brought yet a few more features to this wonderful and innovative kernel feature...

Linux 6.9 Sees Invasive & Significant Changes To Workqueues

Phoronix - Sun, 03/24/2024 - 04:30
Workqueues are commonly used within the Linux kernel for asynchronous process execution contexts. With Linux 6.9 the workqueue (WQ) code has seen "significant and invasive" changes...

AMD FRU Memory Poison Manager Makes It In For Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Sun, 03/24/2024 - 04:12
The Linux 6.9 changes for the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem are heavy on the AMD changes...

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