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CXL Poison Injection Added To Linux 6.18

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 October

The Compute Express Link (CXL) changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel...

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Linux 6.18 Lands Intel FRED Update For Late Incompatible Change To Spec

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October

While Intel FRED was merged back in Linux 6.9 in advance of Intel processors shipping with this Flexible Return Event Delivery functionality, there ended up being a late, incompatible change to the specification as a result of security research into it. For Linux 6.18 those FRED changes have been merged,..

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Many Debian/Ubuntu Packages For Intel Accelerators & Other Intel Software Have Been Orphaned

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October

In addition to some Intel Linux kernel drivers being "orphaned" following the corporate restructuring at Intel between developers being laid off and others deciding to pursue opportunities elsewhere, these changes have also led to a number of Intel-related software packages within Debian being orphaned. In turn these Intel packages are also relied on by Ubuntu and other downstream Debian Linux distributions...

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F2FS Lands Performance Improvements In Linux 6.18

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October

The F2FS file-system enhancements have been merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel and include some new performance optimizations...

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Cairo-Dock 3.6 Released With Wayland Support & HiDPI

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October

Cairo-Dock is back after a decade hiatus! From the early 2010's you may remember Cairo-Dock / GLX-Dock as a complementary dock for your Linux desktop. The last time writing about it was the Cairo-Dock 3.4 release in 2014 when it was working toward EGL/Wayland support. Since then it was rather inactive the past decade besides a small 3.5 update one year ago with a few fixes. But out this week is now Cairo-Dock 3.6 with the long-awaited port to Wayland, HiDPI display handling, and other improvements...

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Linux 6.18 IOMMU Changes For Intel, AMD, Apple & RISC-V

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October

The IOMMU driver changes were merged this week for Linux 6.18 with new material to benefit Intel, AMD, Apple, and RISC-V systems...

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ISD 0.6 Released For Interactive Systemd Management

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October

ISD is an independent interactive systemd management tool with a nice text user interface "TUI" for dealing with systemd units and other systemd functionality. Out today is isd 0.6 with many fixes and other refinements to this helper for administering systemd-backed Linux systems...

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SMB3 & KSMBD See Performance Improvements With Linux 6.18

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October

For those making use of Server Message Block (SMB) protocol support on Linux, the SMB3 client code and KSMBD server code has landed some performance work and other fixes for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel...

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KDE Plasma 6.5 Sees More Fixes & More Early Feature Work For Plasma 6.6

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October

KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta 2 released this week and more fixes have landed for this desktop update due out later this month. Plus KDE developers have begun landing more feature work intended for Plasma 6.6...