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AMD FRU Memory Poison Manager Makes It In For Linux 6.9  Phoronix

The DIRT 5 racing game was one of the titles that hadn't worked on Intel graphics under Linux due to the sparse memory support for the ANV Vulkan driver. But with sparse support now enabled, the game was crashing at launch. But now a workaround is in place to allow Intel's Mesa 24.1 Vulkan driver to work with DIRT 5...

DIRT 5 Now Runs On Intel Arc Graphics Under Linux With Driver Workaround  Phoronix

Linux 6.9 Adds New RISC-V Vector-Accelerated Crypto Routines  HardForum

The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged at the start of the Linux 6.9 merge window and include the recent trend of more all-in-one liquid/water cooling systems seeing Linux driver support to enable convenient monitoring and controls...

Linux 6.9 Expands Hardware Monitoring Support For More AIO CPU Coolers  Phoronix

Cloud-native community celebrates Kubernetes’ 'Linux moment' and its growing role in enterprise AI  SiliconANGLE News

Linux: Run a Single Command across Multiple Servers with SSH  The New Stack

So far when it comes to Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) / Kernel Mode-Setting (KMS) display drivers for Linux, there are Rust efforts underway for the Apple Silicon kernel graphics driver with the Asahi Linux project as well as the new Nova effort for a modern open-source NVIDIA kernel driver from Red Hat. Also now out from Red Hat is posting the Rust bindings for KMS to review plus porting the existing Virtual KMS driver over to Rust as the "RVKMS" driver...

Rust Bindings Posted For KMS Drivers, VKMS Ported To Rust  Phoronix

KDE developers continue to be quite busy fixing a variety of regressions -- including some crashes -- with the new KDE Plasma 6 desktop stack. Plasma 6.0.3 will ship next week with yet more fixes while some feature work toward Plasma 6.1 is also underway...

Wine 9.5 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications under Linux...

Microsoft Enables DNS Tunneling By Default For WSL - More Reliable Networking  Phoronix

Microsoft is rolling out WSL 2.2.1 to WIndows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) users with more reliable networking support, hang fixes, and other improvements...

System76 Pangolin Linux laptop updated with Ryzen 7 7840U processor and 16.1 inch display  Liliputing

The RISC-V architecture updates were sent out today for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel ahead of the v6.9-rc1 release this Sunday...

Linux 6.9 Adds New RISC-V Vector-Accelerated Crypto Routines  Phoronix

While there is AOMP for OpenMP device offloading based on the LLVM/Clang compiler, less talked about and not as feature-rich is the AMDGCN back-end within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) that is also worked on for OpenMP device offloading capabilities to Radeon GPUs. Squeezing in for the upcoming GCC 14.1 stable release is GFX1103 support for AMD APUs with RDNA3 integrated graphics...

Loongson continues enabling more kernel functionality for their LoongArch processor port for the upstream Linux kernel. With Linux 6.9 they sent out today a set of patches enabling more features for this Chinese CPU architecture...

LoongArch Enables More Kernel Functionality With Linux 6.9  Phoronix