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Coredump Socket Support Merged For Linux 6.16

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

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

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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NVIDIA Releases Linux Display Driver v575 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Terasic Atum A3 Nano Integrates Altera Agilex 3 FPGA lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


NVIDIA 575.57.08 Linux Stable Driver Released With Smooth Motion & Other Updates lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


OBS Studio 31.1 Bringing Multitrack Video Support To Linux

OBS Studio 31.1 Beta 1 is out today as the newest version of this popular cross-platform and open-source solution for gaming live streaming, desktop screencasting, and similar screencasting/live-streaming uses...
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does this mean streaming to multiple destinations? That would be useful for for example simultaneous Peertube and Twitch streams. You can do it with server side things but would be much easier if OBS supported it directly.


Tails 6.16 Arrives with Updated Tor Browser lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Essential DNF5 Commands Examples for Managing Packages in Fedora, RHEL, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Linux 6.16 Adds Support For Graceful Host Removal For eMMC & SD Cards

The MMC subsystem feature changes have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel. Interestingly and surprisingly, it's not until now that the Linux kernel has properly supported the graceful host removal for eMMC and SD cards...
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AlmaLinux 10: RHEL’s Twin, With Twists lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


NVIDIA 575.57.08 Linux Stable Driver Released With Smooth Motion & Other Updates

NVIDIA just released their v575.57.08 driver as the first stable Linux driver in their R575 release branch...
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Linux 6.16 Networking Brings Some Big Performance Improvements & OpenVPN Driver

There is a lot of exciting networking changes to find with the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel both for wired and wireless devices as well as some exciting core networking improvements/optimizations...
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openSUSE’s Agama 15 Installer Arrives with Usability Upgrades lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


AMD EPYC 4585PX & EPYC 4565P With DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-5600 Performance

One of the many advantages with the newly announced EPYC 4005 series for entry-level servers is support for DDR5-5600 ECC memory compared to the current Xeon 6300 series being limited to DDR5-4800 memory. With the launch-day EPYC 4005 "Grado" benchmarks earlier this month of the AMD EPYC 4585PX and EPYC 4565P I was running with DDR5-5600 ECC memory modules. But fo…
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AVX-512 Performance + Power Efficiency Shines With AMD Strix Halo lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 Brings XWayland Fixes

The second beta release of KDE's Plasma 6.4 desktop is now available for testing ahead of the official release in June...
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Linux 6.16 Crypto Brings Faster AES-XTS On AVX-512 CPUs, Intel QAT Gen6 Support

The cryptography subsystem updates have been merged for the start of the Linux 6.16 cycle. Notable with the crypto updates this round are more performance optimizations for Intel and AMD CPUs with AVX-512 and also enabling next-generation Intel QAT accelerators...
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Out-Of-Date OpenH264 On Fedora Is Frustrating Users With A High Severity CVE

While OpenH264 support coming to Fedora was widely celebrated as part of offering a better codec experience on Fedora Linux, an increasing number of Fedora users have grown frustrated with the OpenH264 packaging in that it's been out-of-date for several months with a high severity security vulnerability...
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Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


EROFS Lands Support For Tapping Intel QAT Accelerators

There is a lot of exciting file-system changes landing for the Linux 6.16 kernel... EXT4 brings a "really stupendous performance" change, Btrfs also brings some performance improvements, XFS landed atomic writes, and Bcachefs continues stabilizing. For the EROFS read-only file-system its changes have been merged and includes support for Intel QAT acceleration...
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Canonical To Release Monthly Ubuntu Snapshots For Testing & Building Out Automation

Canonical is sticking to Ubuntu Linux releases every six months and a Long Term Support (LTS) release every two years, but a new change to their development process is that they are now working to release monthly Ubuntu snapshots of their testing stream...
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TUXEDO Unveils First Mini LED Linux Laptop with Next-Gen PCIe 5.0 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


More Intel Battlemage Graphics PCI IDs Added To Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

Intel engineers have added yet more PCI graphics device IDs for Battlemage to their open-source driver code within Mesa for Iris OpenGL and ANV Vulkan driver support...
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Intel Hardware Support Expanded In EDAC Drivers For Linux 6.16

With the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates sent out this week for the Linux 6.16 kernel there is support for a number of newer Intel hardware platforms...
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VirtualBox 7.2 Beta Brings Windows 11 Arm Support, Source Code On GitHub lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


DuckDB flips lakehouse model with bring-your-own compute and metadata RDBMS lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



Klinge FPGA Computer Targets Secure, Headless Linux Deployments lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 Linux Laptop Unveiled with 128 GB RAM, HDR Display lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



Mesa's Rusticl Lands Support For Shared Virtual Memory & Intel Subgroups

Rusticl as Mesa's Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation for Gallium3D drivers is ending the month of May on a high note... Merged this week was support for the Intel Subgroups OpenCL extension (cl_intel_subgroups) and before getting to that on my TODO list, an even bigger item was merged: Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support...
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How to use Authselect to configure PAM in Fedora Linux lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Linux Format Magazine Ends with Issue 329 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


MYIR Launches Sub-$100 i.MX 91 Board for Embedded and Industrial Use lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Archinstall 3.0.7 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Adds Support for Btrfs Snapshots lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


VirtualBox 7.2 Beta Brings Windows 11 Arm Support, Source Code On GitHub

Oracle engineers have released the first public beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization software release for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris systems...
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Linux 6.16 GPU Driver Changes Land: NVIDIA Blackwell, Asahi UAPI, Intel Xe Fan Speeds

The hearty set of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel. Most notable is preliminary NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support atop the mainline kernel with an open-source driver but there are also big ticket items added for the AMD Radeon/Instinct and Intel graphi…
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Git 2.50-rc0 Brings New Improvements

The initial release candidate of Git 2.50 is now available for this widely-used, distributed version control system...
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