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.

Just days after System76 upstreamed Intel Raptor Lake HX and their new Adder WS 3 laptop into Coreboot, three more of their laptops have now made their way to upstream Coreboot.

While not too useful as limited to OpenGL-only and will perform extremely slowly until the NVIDIA GSP firmware support is sorted out for the Nouveau DRM kernel driver, merged today for Mesa 23.3-devel and marked for back-porting to Mesa 23.2 is initial NVIDIA…

In addition to the review embargo lift today for Genoa-X with our AMD EPYC 9684X benchmarks, the lift is also today on the new AMD EPYC 'Bergamo' processors for offering up to 128 cores / 256 threads per socket using the new Zen 4C core.

Last year AMD launched Milan-X as their first server processors with 3D V-Cache.

For those on Linux running a multi-monitor setup with a mix of resolutions or screen sizes between the different displays, Google Chrome (and Chromium) will soon be able to better cope with this arrangement by allowing per-display scaling factors.

There is a phenomenon where running a multi-threaded workload inside a virtual machine (VM) with Simultaneously Multi-Threading (SMT / Intel Hyper Threading) that a sibling thread could find itself busy while the CPU core is idle

Following a recent Intel Mesa driver improvement to yield ~10% better performance, another change is on the way that has the ability to boost the performance for at least one game by 12% and other games by smaller yields.