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Mesa 24.2 Enjoyed Some Last Minute Code Cleaning & Modernization

Phoronix - Sun, 07/21/2024 - 21:30
Just prior to the Mesa 24.2 code branching / feature freeze on Thursday, two merge requests landed working on cleaning up some Mesa interfaces and code modernization...

Linux 6.11 Hardening Makes FineIBT Default Configurable At Build Time

Phoronix - Sun, 07/21/2024 - 21:08
Kees Cook submitted all of the hardening updates this week for the Linux 6.11 merge window in beefing up the kernel's defenses against various attack vectors and vulnerabilities...

LXQt 2.0 Desktop Planned For Availability In Fedora 41

Phoronix - Sun, 07/21/2024 - 18:43
A change proposal was raised this week for upgrading Fedora's LXQt desktop offering to the recently released LXQt 2.0 for the upcoming Fedora 41 release...

Initial AMD SEV-SNP KVM Guest VM Support Merged Into Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Sun, 07/21/2024 - 18:34
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) updates for Linux 6.11 have been merged and it's a very exciting one for AMD EPYC servers with SEV-SNP guest VM support finally being in the mainline kernel...

RISC-V Sees Support For New ISA Extensions In Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Sun, 07/21/2024 - 18:19
Palmer Dabbelt on Saturday sent out the RISC-V architecture updates for the ongoing Linux 6.11 merge window...

OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 Released With KDE Plasma 6 But Wayland Not Mature Enough

Phoronix - Sun, 07/21/2024 - 07:16
OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 debuted as stable today for this rolling release model of OpenMandriva. With the new release comes the transition to the KDE Plasma 6 desktop but the OpenMandriva developers aren't yet comfortable enough to use Wayland by default and thus the X11 session is preferred...

USB & Thunderbolt Improvements Land In Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Sat, 07/20/2024 - 20:43
Greg Kroah-Hartman on Friday sent out all of the USB/Thunderbolt subsystem feature updates destined for the Linux 6.11 kernel of which there are many different patches across the board...

AVX-512/AVX10 & VAES Optimized AES-GCM Implementation Lands In Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Sat, 07/20/2024 - 18:46
The crypto subsystem updates have landed for the Linux 6.11 kernel...

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