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Linux 6.18-rc3 Released With Latest Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 October

The Linux 6.18-rc3 kernel is now available for testing in working toward the Linux 6.18 stable kernel release in just about one month. Linux 6.18 is expected to become this year's Long Term Support "LTS" kernel...

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Debian Establishes Archive Operations Team, Licensing & New Packages Team

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 October

Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille announced today that their "FTP Master" team is being disbanded and instead establishing the Debian Archive Operations Team "Archive Team" and DFSG, Licensing and New Packages Team "DFSG Team" in its place...

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FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan Acceleration For Apple ProRes Video Decoding

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 October

The talented FFmpeg developers continue to be quite innovative with their performance optimizations and other features for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library. The latest addition to FFmpeg this weekend is introducing Vulkan accelerated video decoding for Apple ProRes content...

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EXT4 Patches Enable Block Size Greater Than Page Size Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 October

Following the initial VFS changes last year for supporting block sizes larger than the kernel's page size along with the initial XFS file-system patches, Btrfs recently landed its support for block sizes greater than the page size. Now EXT4 is preparing to join the party too for allowing larger block sizes...

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Intel Sends Out Initial Graphics Driver Patches For Multi-Device SVM

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 October

As part of their Project Battlematrix effort, Intel has been working on enhancing their Linux graphics driver support for multi-device usage scenarios with wanting to support up to eight Intel Arc Pro graphics cards per system to help with AI LLMs and other larger use-cases. The latest code posted from Intel engineers is their initial implementation of multi-device Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support...

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Linux Prepping For "Extreme" Mode On Lenovo Legion Devices

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 October

Derek Clark who has been leading the efforts around Lenovo Legion gaming drivers for Linux and ensuring good support for the Lenovo Legion Go handheld on Linux sent out a new Linux patch series this weekend...

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AMD Begins Sending In "New Stuff" For Their Graphics Driver In Linux 6.19

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 October

AMD on Friday sent in their first patch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes they are ready to begin queuing in the DRM-Next tree until the Linux 6.19 merge window kicks off in December and leading to a stable release around February...

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Linux 6.18 Adds Two New x86 Platform Drivers, New AMD PMF Capabilities

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 October

The x86 platform drivers area of the Linux kernel continues to see a lot of code churn for supporting new laptops and enhancing support for existing laptop models. Plus the likes of AMD PMF and Intel PMC continue to see ongoing improvements too...

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Intel TDX Will Now Work With Linux's Kexec - Except For Early CPUs With Known Bug

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 October

The Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) updates for the Linux 6.18 kernel allow it to work with Kexec for being able to load and boot into a new kernel from another currently running kernel...