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Linux Developers Consider Ending 32-bit KVM Host Virtualization Support`

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 December, 2024

Earlier this month as part of patches for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel code for x86_64 systems, there was a patch to drop support for 32-bit x86 KVM host support. That patch has now been split off into its own patch series with also now raising the prospects of ending 32-bit KVM host support across all CPU architectures rather than being just an x86-only change...

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Intel Begins Readying Graphics Driver Changes For The Linux 6.14 Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 December, 2024

While the Linux 6.13 merge window only recently ended and that kernel won't be out until around the end of January followed by the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window, Intel software engineers on Wednesday sent out their first two pull requests to DRM-Next of new kernel graphics driver features they are readying for this next version of the Linux kernel...

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AMD GFX 11.5.3 Graphics Support Added To Mesa 25.0

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 December, 2024

AMD has added support for another RDNA 3.5 refresh variant to the Mesa graphics driver code for Linux systems...

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KDE Gear 24.12 Released With Many Improvements To KDE Apps

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 December, 2024

Right ahead of the holidays, KDE Gear 24.12 is out to deliver four months worth of refinements to the KDE desktop applications...

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Linux Mint 22.1 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop, Updated Apt Code

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 December, 2024

The beta release of Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" is now available for testing of this desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS releases and known for its Cinnamon desktop environment...

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Linux Fixes Regression That Broke File Names With ️ & Other Special Characters

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 December, 2024

Linus Torvalds took to reverting some code tonight within the mainline Linux kernel that inadvertently had broken support having filenames with ❤️ and other special Unicode characters in filenames when on file-systems with case-folding (optional case insensitive file/folder name) support...

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OpenZFS 2.2.7 Released With Linux 6.12 Support, Many Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 December, 2024

While we are awaiting the release of OpenZFS 2.3 that has been seeing release candidates since early October, OpenZFS 2.2.7 is out today as the newest stable release of this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

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Proton 9.0-4 Released To Improve More Windows Games On Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 December, 2024

Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 9.0-4 as the newest version of their Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for running an incredible number of modern Windows games on Linux...

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Linux 6.13 Delivering Some Incremental Gains With AMD EPYC 9575F Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 December, 2024

With the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel one of the biggest features for those using new AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors is using the AMD P-State driver by default for servers/motherboards with ACPI CPPC support enabled. But even for platforms without that where ACPI CPUFreq remains the default, the Linux 6.13 kernel is still showing some nice incremental uplift at large on these new AMD server processors. Here are some Linux 6.11 vs. 6.12 vs. 6.13 Git kernel benchmarks using an AMD EPYC 9575F 64-core server.