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.

Merged for Linux 6.5 was initial MIDI 2.0 support for the necessary USB audio and raw MIDI drivers to support this major MIDI update

Merged to Mesa 23.2-devel recently was an Intel Arc Graphics driver change to improve performance.

Linux Mint 21.1 “Vera” users can now upgrade their installations to the latest Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” release. Here's how!

A set of 35 patches were posted on Sunday for introducing ARM64 Guarded Control Stack (GCS) support to the Linux kernel

While Intel Arc Graphics continue enjoying performance optimizations with the open-source Linux graphics driver stack, the major limitation facing Arc Graphics on Linux right now for gamers is the lack of sparse residency support that is needed for running…

There's a lovely new Linux kernel patch series out that's big in working on a major clean-up of the x86 APIC code (or 'decrapification' as it's called in the patches) and also bringing up for discussion the idea of killing off x86 32-bit support

MySQL 8.1 is available today with the community server builds now available for this latest major update to this popular SQL database server.

NVIDIA today published their latest stable point release in the R535 Linux driver series to fix a variety of outstanding issues.

NVIDIA 535.86.05 graphics driver for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems is now available for download with various bug fixes.

In addition to Intel engineers being responsible for much of the Linux kernel driver work around USB4 and Thunderbolt, they have now published thunderbolt-utils as a collection of user-space utilities for managing USB4/Thunderbolt on Linux environments.

VirtualBox 7.0.10 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with initial support for Linux kernels 6.4 and 6.5.

Installation, updating and upgrading of Fedora Linux on Android using Termux

As part of AMD's interest in improving graphics around Xen virtualization for in-vehicle infotainment systems and other customer uses, AMD engineers have expanded the video acceleration capabilities provided by Mesa's Virgl code.