New Linux Patches Aim To Better Handle Multiple Swap Devices
For those having Linux systems with multiple swap devices, such as for swap tiering or layered swap handling, a set of patches posted today for the...
Graviton5 Outperforming Intel Xeon Granite Rapids But Falls Short Of AMD EPYC Turin
Following the recent GA of the AWS M9g series as the first instances powered by the new Graviton5 CPUs, I recently ran benchmarks looking at...
Final normal Debian bookworm release
Final normal Debian bookworm release [Posted July 13, 2026 by daroc] Debian has announced the final normal update for Debian 12 ("bookworm")....
FreeBSD Desktop Installer Option Working Through NVIDIA Driver Handling, Licensing
Alfonso Siciliano, who has been one of the FreeBSD developers leading the effort on adding a KDE-based desktop option to the FreeBSD installer,...
Security updates for Monday
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GNOME OS Creating "Test Center" As Its Take On Apple TestFlight For Experiment Software
GNOME developers working on GNOME OS have received funding from Germany's Prototype Fund to work on creating the GNOME OS "Developer Tool Suite" or...
Reworked System Call Entry Handling Slated For Linux 7.3
Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer...
Raspberry Pi 5 IOMMU Driver Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel
While the Raspberry Pi 5 is already over two and a half years old, one of the missing elements of its support from the mainline Linux kernel has...
Cloud Hypervisor 53 Released With Offloaded Snapshot/Restore Daemon
Cloud Hypervisor 53.0 is now available for this open-source, Rust-based VMM focused on cloud workloads and modern security needs. Originally started...
Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc3
Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc3 Things continue to look normal (the 'new normal' with slightly higher rates of commits, although I do get the feeling that...
Linux 7.2 Enabling UltraRISC RISC-V Support In The Default Kernel Build
Similar to Linux 7.2 enabling Eswin SoC support by default in the RISC-V "defconfig" kernel build, UltraRISC RISC-V coverage is also now being...
HFI BIOS Aims To Provide A POST-Like Power On Screen & BIOS Setup Utility For RISC-V
The Harmonic Firmware Initiative "HFI" is trying to provide a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V boards. Akin to the x86...
Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Fixes For The SEGA Dreamcast Drivers In 2026
It wasn't on my bingo card for the week but merged to Git ahead of today's Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel release are a number of fixes for the SEGA Dreamcast...
Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi Linux Driver Hardened Against Malicious WiFi Access Points
The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS...
Debian 13.6 Released To Ship All The Latest Security Fixes, Reverts GeoIP Database
Debian 13.6 is out today as the newest point release of Debian Trixie to ship the latest security fixes and other maintenance updates. Debian 13.6...
Linux 7.3-rc3 Bringing Display Detection Improvement To Help Some Multi-GPU Systems
Sent out today was this week's round of x86 (x86_64) fixes ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc3 kernel test candidate due out on Sunday. The x86 fixes for...
LLVM Merges x86 LFI "Lightweight Fault Isolation" Target For In-Process Sandboxing
Stanford researchers have been developing Lightweight Fault Isolation "LFI" compiler passes and targets for LLVM as a means of efficient, native...
KDE Developers Continue Landing More Features For Plasma 6.8
KDE developers continue to be very busy this summer landing more features for the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop. This Week in Plasma is out with its...
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