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Steam Deck Revolutionizes Portable DJing: A Linux-Based Setup Redefines Music Mixing  BNN Breaking

Longtime Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner with Intel-owned Linutronix has been spending much time over the past several months reworking the Linux kernel's x86 CPU topology evaluation code. This is to clean-up a mess of aging kernel code as well as some areas of the code being incorrect in today's era of hybrid Intel Core processors with a mix of P / E cores with the E cores lacking SMT/HT and thus throwing off prior kernel assumptions. With the code now queued up in a TIP branch today, it looks like that CPU topology rework could be good to go with Linux 6.9...

Cleaning Up A Mess: Linux 6.9 Likely To Land Rework Of x86 CPU Topology Code  Phoronix

Ivanti Pulse Secure was using decade-old Linux and outdated libraries — no wonder it was such a popular target for ...  TechRadar

The FreeBSD project today issued their Q4'2023 status report that highlights all of their interesting work accomplished last quarter on this open-source platform. Among the interesting achievements were the FreeBSD Foundation sponsoring AMD64 SIMD improvements for FreeBSD 15 that will also be back-ported to FreeBSD 14.1...

Juno Computers Unveils the Saturn 17 v5: A Powerhouse Linux Notebook  BNN Breaking

Merged to the LLVM compiler stack two years ago was the BOLT tool for optimizing the layout of generated binaries for offering even greater performance than the likes of Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) alone. BOLT had been in development for years by Facebook/Meta engineers and has continued to be improved upon for enhancing the code layout of binaries to yield enhanced performance. Recently there's been renewed work on using BOLT to optimize Linux kernel images...

Meta Continues Working On BOLT'ing The Linux Kernel For Greater Performance  Phoronix

openSUSE's "Agama" Next-Gen Linux Installer Plans For A Busy 2024  Phoronix

Ahead of the SUSE/openSUSE Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) their engineers have been working on a new web-based OS installer. Originally known as the "D-Installer" and now going by the "Agama" name, this new installer architecture has plans for many architectural improvements this calendar year...

Linux hardware maker Juno Computers releases 17-inch Saturn 17 v5 laptop with Intel i7-13620H, Geforce RTX 4000 ...  Notebookcheck.net

Metro Exodus hits 10 million sales - and there's more to come  GamingOnLinux

Intel engineers working on their open-source Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan driver code currently replay captured error state / GPU hangs using a simulator, but a new patch proposal allows for replaying GPU hangs on the actual hardware. In turn this will hopefully help Intel driver developers better address some real-world issues...

Intel Making It Easier To Reproduce Linux GPU Hangs On Real Hardware  Phoronix

More details on the Manjaro Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld  GamingOnLinux

Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner  The Register

System76's Cosmic Desktop debuts with Linux distribution Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, first alpha coming soon  Notebookcheck.net

Iced is the Rust GUI library that's been gaining quite a lot of interest by Rust developers for creating cross-platform user interfaces. Iced is also what's being used by the Pop!_OS COSMIC desktop environment. Iced v0.12 released yesterday as the first new release for this GUI toolkit since last July...

Valve's Linux graphics driver team has fixed the Vulkan mesh shader support for those using RDNA3 integrated graphics with Phoenix APUs on the latest Mesa RADV driver code...

Vulkan 1.3.278 was published this morning and in addition to the usual documentation corrections/clarifications, there are also two new Vulkan extensions in tow...