While IO_uring has been one of the most interesting kernel innovations of recent years and can allow for great speed-ups to async I/O, there have been some security concerns and with the Linux 6.6 kernel it will be easier for Linux administrators to disable…

Imagination Technologies today published their fourth iteration of their in-development PowerVR DRM kernel graphics driver targeting their Rogue architecture and future graphics IP

With all the news in recent weeks following Red Hat's decision to limit access to RHEL sources that in turn lead to changes for AlmaLinux, finding new ways to obtain sources at Rocky Linux, interesting statements from Oracle, and even SUSE forking RHEL

Ahead of the Linux 6.5-rc2 release tomorrow there was a set of x86/x86_64 kernel changes merged overnight to deal with some weaknesses in the kernel's Control Flow Integrity (kCFI) / FineIBT (Indirect Branch Tracking) code.

Btrfs has long provided a built-in integrity checker tool into the file-system driver

For the past few months Intel has been working on a new cluster scheduling implementation for their hybrid CPUs

Similar to the Dell WMI system management driver and Lenovo's Think-LMI driver, the HP-BIOSCFG driver now poised for introduction in Linux 6.6 allows for managing and configuring BIOS settings on capable HP laptops/desktops from under Linux itself.

Back in April I pointed out some new AMD patches at the time for enabling a new 'Dynamic Boost Control' feature that hasn't been widely talked about by AMD yet for allowing more frequency/power controls around Ryzen SoCs

System76 has contributed Intel Core Raptor Lake HX support to Coreboot with some minor additions over the existing Raptor Lake 'RPL' code as well as adding their new Adder WS 3 laptop to upstream Coreboot.

Linux Mint 21.2 has been released today as the newest update to this Ubuntu 22.04 LTS based Linux distribution known for its Cinnamon desktop environment and other Linux desktop focused refinements.

Pull that party popper 'cos Linux Mint 21.2 'Victoria' is now officially available to download. This release is the stable series successor to last year's

The newest weekly test version of the Linux 6.5 kernel is now available for evaluation and looking out for any bugs/regressions.

Introduction of new testing jobs trigger for Packit - manual_trigger - together with --labels and --identifier parameters.

Slackware Linux, one of the world's oldest surviving Linux distributions, has just turned 30 and it's still active. Happy birthday!

GNU Boot 20230717 has been released as the fork of Libreboot that in turn is a downstream of Coreboot focused on providing system firmware support only where they are fully free software

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 16th, 2023, brings news about SUSE forking RHEL, Thunderbird Supernova, Linux 6.3 EOL, and more.

SparkyLinux 2023.07 rolling distribution is now available for download with packages from the Debian 13 "Trixie" repositories, and more.

The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) has long been a source of issues for Linux developers and it turns out systems relying on HPET rather than the CPU's TSC have in recent months suffered significant performance degradation with the Mesa OpenGL driver code.

With the Intel Xeon Max testing at Phoronix that's been ongoing so far for the past month on Phoronix has all been done within the Supermicro Hyper SuperServer SYS-221H-TNR rackmount server.