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Arm Changing Linux Default To Costly "KPTI" Mitigation For Some Newer CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March

For some newer Arm core designs, Arm is changing the Linux kernel to defaulting to enabling Kernel Page Table Isolation "KPTI" if not running on a new firmware version in order to properly mitigate a recently disclosed CPU security issue. This change has been queued up and is expected to change the default with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel...

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Huawei Matebook E Go Laptops To Be Better Supported With Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March

For those that happen to have a Huawei Matebook E Go 2-in-1 laptop or have been considering these ARM laptops, the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel will be better supporting these devices thanks to a new driver set to be merged...

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Linux 6.14-rc7 To Support A Few More Gaming Controllers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March

Ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel release later today, a set of input subsystem updates were merged overnight that add in support for a few more gaming controllers...

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One Line Of Code Optimizes F2FS Performance For Small Multi-Threaded Writes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March

An SK engineer has posted a Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) driver optimization for Linux that one line of code changed is helping with performance especially for multi-threaded workloads involving small writes to SSD storage...

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Linux Kernel's Rust Support Being Expanded To HID Drivers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March

A set of patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week that are working on initial Rust programming language abstractions for enabling HID device driver development...

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Debian 12.10 Released With More Bugs Fixed & Security Updates

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 March

Debian 12.10 is out today as the newest routine media refresh for the Debian 12 "Bookworm" Linux distribution release...

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Paid XR Desktop For GNOME "Breezy Desktop" In Open Beta With Multi-Display Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 March

The much anticipated GNOME 48 is releasing this coming week as a big step forward for this popular Linux desktop environment. In addition there are a lot of other interesting projects continuing in tandem around GNOME. This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue to highlight some of these most recent GNOME-related changes...

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ReactOS Can Now Boot With The Windows Audio Stack... But No Sound Due To Bugs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 March

It's been a while since having any news to share on ReactOS as the open-source operating system working to re-implement the Microsoft Windows APIs/ABIs for enjoying Windows apps/games and drivers on this platform. Today though they are celebrating a new milestone of being able to boot with the Windows audio stack...

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Bcachefs Racing To Track Down New Upgrade Bug In Linux 6.14

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 March

The Linux 6.14 stable kernel is likely to be released in just over one week and thus leading to Bcachefs file-system developers racing to track down a new bug that's been reported by a user on upgrading to the new kernel...