The SDL abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games now prefers using Vulkan on Windows as its ideal graphics API

Linux 6.12 yesterday merged the real-time 'PREEMPT_RT' patches that had been in development for two decades

While not as exciting as some of the shiny new features for Linux 6.12 like real-time going mainline and Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default, the Firewire (IEEE-1394) subsystem has seen some significant alterations this cycle

While there sadly the previously-annual Phoronix meet-up at Oktoberfest in Munich remains defunct, in honor of Oktoberfest 2024 kicking off this weekend in Munich, it's time for the annual Phoronix Premium special

Linux 6.12 is shaping up to be a heck of a kernel update! Following real-time 'PREEMPT_RT' going mainline after twenty years and many other kernel features merged this week, Linus Torvalds just pulled in the much anticipated sched_ext code!

The kernel patches collected by Andrew Morton were upstreamed today for the Linux 6.12 kernel

Cosmopolitan's Windows support may finally be feature complete. It's now
possible to send signals between processes using kill() on Windows. Ten
new torture test programs have been written ...

Vuln research, CTFs & dank memes :^)

Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023 also known as 'Project Volterra' was an early effor to improve the Windows on ARM support by developers via having a nice small form factor ARM PC to run Windows 11

The PCI changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel add support for Native PCIe Enclosure Management 'NPEM' as a code contribution by Intel for implementing the PCIe spec to standardize storage LEDs.

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted all of the Bcachefs file-system feature patches for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window

The perf tooling changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel

In between Linus Torvalds' busy week being in Vienna for the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit and related Linux Foundation events as well as managing the Linux 6.12 merge window with landing new features like sched_ext and real-time PREEMPT_RT, he also managed…

When doing systems programming we often need to wait for something to happen. Common examples might be waiting for some data to come through a socket or waiting on a lock. We also often want to wait on any of several conditions to become true. A web server…

An attempt at concise explanation of what io_uring is.