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Redox OS Planning A Server Version, Stable ABI & Better Performance

Redox OS, the open-source Rust-written operating system led by developer Jeremy Soller, has been drafting some exciting plans for the rest of this year and moving into 2024...

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Android 14 Open-Source Project Released

Google formally unveiled Android 14 today in New York City at its Made By Google event. With that, Google has also published the Android 14 Open-Source Project (AOSP)...

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GNOME's VTE Seeing Improvements For Faster Terminal Performance

GNOME developer Christian Hergert recently demonstrated how Linux terminal emulators have the potential of running much faster. At the time it didn't sound like he would pursue the matter further but more recently he's begun working on folding some performance improvements into GNOME's VTE for a faster terminal experience...

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Linux Foundation's Latest Open-Source Project: OpenPubkey

The newest open-source project hosted by the Linux Foundation is OpenPubkey, which is a collaboration with Docker and BastionZero and will be available for Docker container signing with zero-trust passwordless authentication...

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NVIDIA Introduces New Low-Latency Vulkan Extension For Gaming

Vulkan 1.3.266 was published a few days ago with a handful of fixes and two new extensions. One of those extensions, VK_NV_low_latency2 is quite interesting...

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Linux 6.7 To Update Intel IBRS Mitigation Handling To Enhance System Performance

Motivated by a 25% performance degradation seen on an Intel Xeon Scalable dual socket server due to Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS), Red Hat's Waiman Long has been working on a patch series to update the IBRS handling in different conditions for affected Intel processors on Linux...

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Mesa 23.1.9 Released To End Out The Series

With the much-delayed Mesa 23.2 finally having been released last week, Mesa 23.1.9 is out the door as the last planned maintenance release for that open-source driver series introduced back in Q2...

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Mobileye EyeQ 5 SoC Support Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel

The Mobileye EyeQ 5 SoC that can power fully-autonomous (Level 5) driving for vehicles and provide other assisted-driving technologies for a variety of automobiles could soon see mainline support in the Linux kernel...

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Intel Vulkan Driver Implements A Transfer Queue For DG2/Alchemist GPUs

In addition to Vulkan sparse support that works with the existing i915 kernel driver, another exciting open-source Intel Vulkan driver development this week is landing a transfer queue implementation for DG2/Alchemist GPUs. This in turn can help with hybrid graphics systems and other situations...

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New Patches Speed-Up Linux's Accounted Kernel Memory Allocations By ~30%

A set of patches posted last week can improve the Linux kernel's performance of accounted kernel memory allocations by around 30%...

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GCC Security Policy Merged To GCC Git

Following discussions on the GCC mailing list in recent weeks, a GCC security policy was added for the GNU Compiler Collection codebase to outline the compiler project's security process...

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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Performance With ECC DDR5 Memory

For those curious about the performance implications of using DDR5 ECC memory with AMD Ryzen 7000 series "Zen 4" processors, I ran some benchmarks with ECC memory with the Error Correction Code functionality enabled and then disabled for evaluating the impact.

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WayVNC 0.7 Released As VNC Server For Wlroots-Based Wayland Compositors

WayVNC 0.7 was released today as the newest feature update to this VNC server for use with wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC will dynamically attach to running Wayland sessions and allow for convenient VNC server support...

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Linux Fix Queued For Recent AMD Laptops Failing To Resume From Attached USB Devices

A fix has made its way into the Linux PCI subsystem's power management branch to address various AMD Ryzen Rembrandt and Phoenix generation laptops failing to resume from suspend when external USB devices are attached for initiating the system resume...

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Linux Patches Updated For 64-Core RISC-V Milk-V Pioneer mATX Board

The latest Linux kernel patches for enabling the Milk-V Pioneer board have been posted, which is that interesting 64-core RISC-V micro-ATX board with two PCIe x16 slots and more...

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Valve Releases Proton 8.0-4 As A Big Improvement For Windows Gaming On Linux

Valve has just released Proton 8.0-4 as stable on the Steam client for enhancing the experience for running Windows games on Linux for this Wine-based software that powers Steam Play...

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Ferrocene Safety-Critical Rust Compiler Code Published

Ferrous Systems has made available open-source code for Ferrocene, their Rust compiler focused on safety-critical and mission-critical environments. The Ferrocene compiler is being made available under Apache 2.0 or MIT licensing...

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FEX-Emu 2310 Released With Performance Optimizations, WOW64 Wine Frontend

A new version of FEX-Emu has been released, the open-source project aiming to be "the greatest x86/x86_64 emulator on Linux" that includes the ability to run Steam and Steam Play Windows games on AArch64 Linux systems...

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Fwupd 1.9.6 Brings Linux Firmware Updating For AMD Graphics Cards

A new release of Fwupd 1.9.6 is out today and it's notable in that AMD graphics cards can now enjoy firmware upgrades under Linux. This AMD GPU firmware updating works with Navi 3x GPUs and future hardware on recent versions of the Linux kernel...

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PipeWire 1.0 RC Available With Jackdbus By Default, Improved IRQ-Based Scheduling

PipeWire 0.3.81 was released today for what's being treated as the PipeWire 1.0 release candidate ahead of its stable release still comimg up this calendar year...