Linux NewsLinux Patch Coming To Fix Under-Reported AMD Zen 5 TLB Sizes
A minor reporting issue on Linux that has gone unaddressed until now is for properly conveying the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) sizes on AMD Zen 5 processors...
OpenAPV Sees Big Update For Advancing The Advanced Professional Video Codec
OpenAPV as the open-source reference implementation of the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec today saw its v1.1.1 release, succeeding v0.3.0 as the prior release...
AMD Preparing Linux For Enhanced SMT Protection "ESMTP" For EPYC VMs
AMD engineers today sent out patches on the Linux kernel mailing list for beginning to enable Enhanced SMT Protection "ESMTP" for better security with virtual machines running atop EPYC server processors with SEV-SNP...
GNU Coreutils 9.12 Released With Performance Optimizations, New uname Option
GNU Coreutils 9.12 released today with a mix of fixes, some new options, and various performance improvements to these widely-used set of core system utilities...
Valve's Steam Frame Now Available At $1059+ USD
Valve just announced their long-awaited Steam Frame headset is now available...
Rustls 0.23.45 Released To Fix Two Year Old Security Issue
While the Rustls modern TLS library is written in the Rust programming language with a focus on memory safety, as we've seen out of other Rust project re-implementations in the past, the new implementations can lead to other security bugs of their own. Out today is Rustls 0.23.45 to fix a security issue introduced back in 2024 with Rustls while the likes of OpenSSL, BoringSSL, and others are unaffected...
Firefox 156 Available With Its Built-In PDF Viewer Starting Up To 45% Faster
Mozilla today published their Firefox 156.0 release binaries ahead of the official Tuesday announcement...
Linux 7.3 Delivering Some Performance Gains On Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Linux 7.1 brought some performance improvements for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", Linux 7.2 enhanced the performance for the integrated Arc B390 Xe3 graphics, and now for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel are various performance improvements at large. Today's article is looking at the performance of the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel compared to Linux 7.2 stable using the Core Ultra X9 388H within the Framework Laptop 13 Pro.
Removing Drivers For Outdated ARM Platforms Will Lighten The Kernel By ~247k Lines
The Linux kernel is going to see the removal of a number of recently deprecated ARM 32-bit platforms. Following the deprecation in Linux 7.3, removing the old ARM platforms will lighten the kernel by around 55k lines of code. But removing now unused drivers only relevant to those platforms will mean roughly a quarter million lines of code can be removed from the kernel source tree...
Linux 7.4 Could End Up Seeing Kernel Builds ~36% Faster, Incremental Builds ~70% Faster
Earlier this month I wrote about a patch series posted to the Linux kernel mailing list that addressed a lot of "hideous code" to make Linux kernel builds faster. A number of single-threaded bottlenecks were tracked down and fixed within the Linux kernel thanks to the assistance of AI. A second revision of those patches hit the mailing list this morning and there is hope they could be upstreamed for Linux 7.4...
Linux Patched For Silent User-Space Data Loss Bug That's Existed Since 2023
Being merged after yesterday's Linux 7.3-rc3 release was an important fix for addressing a silent, user-space data loss bug that has existed in the kernel the past three years...
Linux 7.3-rc3 Released: "Another Fairly Large RC"
Out today is the third weekly release candidate of Linux 7.3 as this next kernel version works its way toward a stable release in the second half of October...
Zstd Improvement For Linux 7.4 To Avoid Redundant Initialization
In addition to Usama Arif's recent Linux patches for addressing a major inefficiency within the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code, he also has a separate patch series destined for Linux 7.4 to further enhance the Zstd compression/decompression performance by avoiding redundant initialization...
BFS File-System Being Removed For Linux 7.4
The latest upstream file-system to be removed from the mainline Linux kernel is... BFS...
ARCTIC's Fan Controller Driver For Linux Being Dual-Licensed With BSD-2-Clause
Earlier this year ARCTIC published a fan controller driver for Linux. Besides being rare for an enthusiast-oriented company to publish a Linux driver themselves where typically it's left up to the open-source community for driver support for such peripherals, it was all the more interesting as they published the Linux driver and got it mainlined before the product was even released. In the end the ARTCIC Fan Controller is the best desktop fan controller for Linux and less than $10 USD. That open-source driver is now being dual-licensed to help with in bringing it to more operating systems...