Important Performance Work: Overhaul Of RSEQ & CID Management Merged For Linux 6.19 An important set of patches were just merged a few minutes ago to Linux Git for the ongoing Linux 6.19 kernel with some important performance implications... image
NVIDIA 590.44.01 Beta Linux Driver Released With Wayland Improvements NVIDIA today released the 590.44.01 Linux driver build as the first beta of their R590 series driver branch for Linux customers... image
FreeBSD 15.0 Now Officially Available With Many Software Updates, Reproducible Builds FreeBSD 15.0 is officially released as the newest major update to this leading BSD operating system... image
Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers Receive Corruption Fixes & More For Linux 6.19 It was just earlier this year that Linux developers considered dropping the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the mainline Linux kernel for being unmaintained. But then some new developers stepped up to maintain the drivers and there has been new HFS/HFS+ file-system patches each kernel cycle since. With the now in-development Linux 6.19 kernel there… image
Steam Machine, Continued Open-Source Rust Usage & Linux Kernel Happenings In November It was an eventful past month with Valve announcing the new Steam Machine, a lot of new Linux kernel activity, the continued increase of Rust programming language adoption by open-source projects, a lot of fun hardware benchmarks, and more. There were 283 original news articles on Phoronix the past month about Linux/open-source software and hardware plus … image
Intel Finally Posts Open-Source Gaudi 3 Driver Code For The Linux Kernel The good news is that Intel tonight posted a pull request for open-source Gaudi 3 accelerator support for the mainline Linux kernel! The bad news is that it's coming quite late in the product cycle, much later than the former excellent Habana Labs open-source track record, and their hopes of squeezing this code into the Linux 6.19 kernel may be dashed... image