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Code Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15 For Enabling Block Sizes Greater Than Page Size

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 March

Ahead of the Linux v6.14 kernel expected for release tomorrow and in turn the Linux 6.15 merge window, Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft began sending out his pull requests today of new code he's hoping to see merged for this next cycle. One of those interesting pulls is the work for block devices to allow for block sizes to be greater than the page size...

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NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver Ported To Haiku OS, Mesa NVK Adapted To Run On Top

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 March

Haiku OS developer X512 has managed a rather impressive feat: porting NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules to Haiku. Not only did he get NVIDIA's official Linux kernel modules running on Haiku but he also ported the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver to be able to run atop the NVIDIA kernel driver interface...

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KDE Continues Prepping More Features For Plasma 6.4

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 March

KDE developers continue pushing ahead with new feature development on the Plasma 6.4 desktop to further refine Plasma 6...

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Wine 10.4 Brings More Direct3D To Vulkan Video Handling, Continued Bluetooth Driver Work

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March

Wine 10.4 is out tonight as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

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AMD Announces AITER For ROCm To Help Boost AI Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March

AMD has been on a software / container / documentation spree recently around ROCm and today are announcing another software addition to the ROCm portfolio: AITER...

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Microsoft Proposes "Hornet" Security Module For The Linux Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March

Microsoft's newest open-source contribution to the Linux kernel being proposed is... Hornet, a Linux security module (LSM) for providing signature verification of eBPF programs...

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ReactOS 0.4.15 Released For This "Open-Source Windows" OS With Tons Of Enhancements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March

It's been over three years since the last ReactOS open-source operating system release for this platform working on API/ABI compatibility with Microsoft Windows. Today ReactOS 0.4.15 was finally published...

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Linux Security Hardening Cache Randomization Was Inadvertently Using The Same Seed

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March

Ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle a few early pull requests have already been sent in to Linus Torvalds in advance of the anticipated v6.14 release on Sunday. Among those early changes for Linux 6.15 are the SLAB allocator updates that include a fix for cache randomization with kvmalloc inadvertently being inadequate due to accidentally using the same randomization seed...

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New Intel/AMD GPU Features, Apple Touch Bar Drivers & Other Likely Changes For Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 March

With the Linux 6.14 stable kernel likely debuting on Sunday, the Linux 6.15 merge window will then open for kicking off the next development cycle. There's a lot of exciting changes and new features building up ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window...