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Intel IWD 3.0 Wireless Daemon Released For Linux Systems

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 October, 2024

Intel's iNet Wireless Daemon (IWD) for Linux systems is out with a v3.0 release for this featureful and modern alternative to WPA_Supplicant...

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Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 October, 2024

Over the past week Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been active on a Linux kernel mailing list thread around avoiding barrier_nospec() in copy_from_user() due to being "overkill and painfully slow." The conversation evolved into low-level discussions over CPU behavior and how to best handle, differing behavior/requirements with new Intel CPUs supporting Linear Address Masking (LAM), and the overall headaches these days around CPU security mitigations...

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Hangover 9.20 Restores Support For Running Win64 Applications On ARM64 Wine

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 October, 2024

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.20 for running Windows games/applications on Linux, Hangover 9.20 is now available for this extension of Wine that builds off that codebase while pairing it with an x86/x86_64 emulator for running Windows programs on other CPU architectures like ARM64 Linux. With Hangover 9.20 they have restored the ability for running Win64 applications on ARM64 Linux hosts...

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Unvanquished 0.55 Released With Big Performance Optimizations For Its Engine

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 October, 2024

The Unvanquished 0.55 open-source game that was recently teased for its OpenGL 4.6 renderer work is out today with its shiny new release. As it's been more than one and a half years since Unvanquished 0.54, this new beta comes with a load of improvements especially around optimizing its Daemon open-source engine that is long derived from id Tech 3...

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Meson 1.6 Build System Adds Support For Flang & OpenXL Compilers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 October, 2024

Meson 1.6 was published on Sunday as the newest feature update to this popular cross-platform build system...

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Ubuntu Considers Replacing initramfs-tools WIth Dracut

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 October, 2024

As a possible change for Ubuntu 25.04, Canonical is evaluating the use of Dracut to replace initramfs-tools for initrd generation on Ubuntu Linux...

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Linux 6.13 Poised To Land Prep Patches Working Toward Proxy Execution

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 October, 2024

Years in the making has been the idea of Proxy Execution for the Linux kernel as a means of implementing priority inheritance by leveraging information from a task's scheduler context and its execution context. While the Proxy Execution patches themselves aren't yet queued for merging upstream, some prep patches look like they'll make it for the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window...

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Linux Fixes Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier "IBPB" Handling For Older AMD CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 October, 2024

Merged today to Linux 6.12 Git were bug fixes to AMD's Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB) handling that can be optionally used as part of the Retbleed and Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigations on older AMD processors...

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Laptop Vendor Malibal Suggests Not Supporting Coreboot

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 October, 2024

In a rather surprising post this morning, laptop vendor Malibal that offers both Linux and Windows systems is suggesting to not support the Coreboot project for open-source system firmware...