Michael Larabel    Andrew Morton made for an exciting Friday evening by sending out his MM pull request for Linux . as the large collection of memory management related patches for this next kernel version...

Michael Larabel    The four SoC pull requests were sent out today for the ongoing Linux . merge window. These pull requests are principally about various ARM SoC and platform hardware additions changes but also an increasing number of RISC V SoC activity too...

Michael Larabel    Vulkan . . was published this morning as the newest routine specification update to this graphics compute API...

Michael Larabel    While there have been a lot of GeForce RTX Windows gaming benchmarks since the review embargo lift yesterday, for those more fascinated by this high end Blackwell desktop graphics card for its GPU compute potential on Linux, this article is for you. Up today are my very initial GPU compute...

Michael Larabel    Several of the upstream Linux Direct Rendering Manager DRM drivers have become orphaned due to the unfortunately declining health of their lone driver maintainer...

Michael Larabel    The Common Internet File System CIFS as an implementation of the SMB protocol for commonly sharing files with Windows systems will enjoy better read performance with the Linux . kernel...

Michael Larabel    While there are many exciting new features in the GNOME Alpha as well as a new app with Decibels becoming the official audio player, there isn’t a new official video player for this desktop release...

Michael Larabel    In addition to the Bcachefs features and new Btrfs code for Linux ., the XFS file system changes were merged on Thursday for this next version of the Linux kernel...

Michael Larabel    Now that NVIDIA is rolling out the Blackwell GPU driver support, it looks like the NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations will soon be moving to a legacy driver branch...

Michael Larabel    It’s not only AI start ups running into space and power capacity bottlenecks but the Fedora Project has been pushing the limits of its main data center and is preparing for a move to a new data center to allow for more physical space and power capacity. In turn one item mentioned is allowing space...

Michael Larabel    The GNOME Alpha release was issued this morning for helping to test this updated desktop environment debuting as stable in March...

Michael Larabel    Building off last month’s release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux . beta, Oracle today published the Oracle Linux Developer Preview for a first glimpse at this next RHEL derived operating system...

Michael Larabel    The Linux x bit PAE kernel support for Physical Address Extensions allows addressing more than GB of memory for those still running bit processors or otherwise opting to still run a bit OS. While the Linux x bit specific code rarely sees new improvements in the past number of years...

Michael Larabel    Earlier this month was the release of the KDE Plasma . beta while today a second beta was issued...

Michael Larabel    All of the power management feature updates for the in development Linux . kernel were sent out earlier this week and subsequently merged. As we’ve been seeing with recent Linux kernel releases, AMD continues investing a lot into their AMD P State CPU frequency scaling driver for better power...

Michael Larabel    For those making use of the source available Redis in memory key value database, the upcoming Redis . will offer better performance on today’s high core count systems and servers...

Michael Larabel    With Debian freeze dates announced and that Debian . Trixie release working its way toward release likely around August, it’s then to be followed by beginning development on Debian codenamed as Forky . Yesterday when announcing the Debian Trixie freeze dates, the Debian codename was...

Michael Larabel    Following the unboxing embargo earlier this week for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX , today the review embargo lifts for the GeForce RTX Founders Edition...

Michael Larabel    The crypto subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux . kernel. Notable this time are new x specific optimizations for the AES GCM and AES XTS algorithms. Benefiting the most from these new x optimizations are recent AMD processors...

Michael Larabel    Newer laptops pre loaded with Microsoft Windows have begun adding a Copilot key for launching Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant or other chatbot software. With the upcoming Linux . kernel, that key will be mapped out correctly so that user space software can determine the behavior for...

Michael Larabel    The Tuned software from Red Hat is a daemon for Linux monitoring and adaptive performance tuning as an alternative to the likes of power profiles daemon. Tuned ships with various profiles and allows different features for tuning the Linux system performance for HPC compute, enterprise storage,...

Michael Larabel    Along with other VFS pull requests for Linux . to introduce STATX DIO READ ALIGN, adding a new mountinfo program, VirtualBox guest support for ARM VMs, and faster proc kcore reading, another VFS pull for this new kernel brings a minor performance optimization...

Michael Larabel    With the newest code merged for Mesa . , the Panfrost PanVK driver is exposing Vulkan . support on Arm Valhall v graphics processors...

Michael Larabel    The Landlock Linux security module that was added to the mainline Linux kernel four years ago for unprivileged application sandboxing and similar access controls has a rather weird update for the in development Linux . kernel: Land lock can now deal with weird files ...

Michael Larabel    With Debian due out in the coming months, the Debian artwork theme was recently announced as well as the Debian Installer Trixie Alpha release. The latest is the freeze dates for Debian . being announced today...

Michael Larabel    In an Intel blog post today they outlined their desire for a more modular PC design to enhance repairability and reduce e waste. It’s very much along similar lines of the Framework Computer upgradeable and easily serviceable laptops. With some luck hopefully we will be seeing more modular PC...

Michael Larabel    Archinstall . . was just tagged as the newest version of this quick and easy, text based installer for the Arch Linux operating system...

Michael Larabel    In October it will mark years since the Free Software Foundation FSF was founded by Richard Stallman. In marking forty years of supporting the free software movement, they have been running a logo contest to memorialize the milestone. Today that new logo was unveiled...

Michael Larabel    Ahead of the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX series graphics Blackwell and the AMD Radeon RX series RDNA later in the quarter, I figured it would be worthwhile having a dedicated article looking at the latest upstream Linux graphics gaming performance for current generation NVIDIA GeForce...

Michael Larabel    An unexpected surprise today are AMD Linux software engineers announcing a new project a bit further outside the scope of their open source graphics drivers... The AMDGPU Composition Stack ACS is for delivering new advanced features atop Wayland for bettering the Linux desktop display...

Michael Larabel    Google engineer Vinay Banakar sent out a patch this week for the Linux kernel’s memory management code to optimize TLB flushes during page reclaim and are showing very promising results...

Michael Larabel    Surprisingly a change not made years ago, the Linux Kernel Unit Testing KUnit framework with the Linux . kernel is set to use hardware acceleration by default for faster testing where available...