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NVIDIA R545 Linux Beta Driver Brings HDMI Deep Color, Night Color & FB Consoles

Phoronix - Tue, 10/17/2023 - 21:21
NVIDIA today published their first R545 Linux driver beta series with a number of shiny new features...

Debian Repeals The Merged "/usr" Movement Moratorium

Phoronix - Tue, 10/17/2023 - 20:39
Debian 12 had aimed to have a merged "/usr" file-system layout similar to other Linux distributions, but The Debian Technical Committee earlier this year decided to impose a merged-/usr file movement moratorium. But now with Debian 12 having been out for a few months, that moratorium has been repealed...

AMD Takes SEV-SNP Hypervisor To v10, Intel TDX Host Support Up To 14 Revisions

Phoronix - Tue, 10/17/2023 - 20:22
Both AMD and Intel engineers have experienced a lengthy journey getting their latest virtualization security features into the mainline Linux kernel -- and one that is still ongoing...

Intel's Habana Labs Driver Finishes Adapting To The Linux Accel Subsystem

Phoronix - Tue, 10/17/2023 - 18:51
In addition to Intel putting the finishing touches on Meteor Lake graphics support for the upcoming Linux 6.7 cycle, Intel's Habana Labs AI accelerator driver also has some notable changes for this next kernel version...

Google Proposes New mseal() Memory Sealing Syscall For Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 10/17/2023 - 18:32
Google is proposing a new mseal() memory sealing system call for the Linux kernel. Google intends for this architecture independent system call to be initially used by the Google Chrome web browser on Chrome OS while experiments are underway for use by Glibc in the dynamic linker to seal all non-writable segments at startup...

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