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Alpine Linux 3.22 Replaces Gummiboot With systemd-efistub

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Friday, 30 May - 16:14

Alpine Linux 3.22 is now available as the newest version of this Linux distribution popular for use with containers and embedded purposes due to its small, simple, and secure focus...

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WD_BLACK SN8100 2TB PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD Linux Benchmarks

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Friday, 30 May - 15:06

Sandisk earlier this month announced the WD_BLACK SN8100 as what they claim is the current world's fastest PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD for consumers. Given how well the WD_BLACK SN850X performs under Linux as a PCIe Gen 4.0 drive, I decided to buy a WD_BLACK SN8100 for some Linux testing at Phoronix to compare to various other drives in the lab. Here is a preliminary look at the WD_BLACK SN8100 2TB performance under Ubuntu Linux.

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AMD Virtual TPM Driver Merged For Linux 6.16 To Enhance Confidential Computing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Friday, 30 May - 13:44

The latest upstream Linux kernel improvement for AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization "SEV" is the introduction of a virtual TPM driver...

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Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Friday, 30 May - 12:28

With how well the open-source and upstream AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack is these days between the mainline Linux kernel and Mesa, the Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver releases are not usually notable these days on Phoronix... The packaged Radeon Software for Linux drivers haven't been popular with gamers/enthusiasts in years given how good the upstream support is and those packaged bits mostly useful for those just running enterprise Linux distributions with older versions of Linux and Mesa. But the next Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver release is set to introduce a big change...

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AMDGPU High Priority Graphics User Queue Support Merged For Mesa 25.2

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Friday, 30 May - 12:15

For making use of AMDGPU user queue functionality, the latest Mesa user-space side work has been merged for Mesa 25.2 to enable support for high priority graphics user queues...

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Intel SGX With Linux 6.16 Less Likely To Cause Fatal Machine Checks

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Friday, 30 May - 10:29

Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) updates for the in-development Linux 6.16 contain a fix so SGX is now less likely to cause a fatal machine check...

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Coredump Socket Support Merged For Linux 6.16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Friday, 30 May - 10:16

As an alternative to Coredumps dumping to a file or a pipe connected to a user-mode helper process, Linux 6.16 is introducing the ability to send Coredumps over an AF_UNIX socket...

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Intel IPU7 Firmware Binaries Upstreamed For Lunar Lake Webcameras

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Friday, 30 May - 10:06

Overnight Intel upstreamed their IPU7 firmware binaries into the linux-firmware.git repository where Linux distributions will then be able to pick them up for easy consumption. IPU7 is for their latest Image Processing Unit for some web cameras on their latest-generation Lunar Lake platform...

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F2FS Improvements Merged For Linux 6.16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Friday, 30 May - 09:53

Following the exciting EXT4 performance work, XFS atomic writes, and other exciting file-system pull requests submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.16 merge window, the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes have been submitted and merged for this next kernel version...

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