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      It Turns Out Intel TDX Doesn't Need So Much Cache Flushing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:53

    Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) for confidential computing with VMs has assumed the need to perform cache flushing when transitioning memory between KeyIDs used by the total memory encryption (MKTME) for unique AES encryption keys. But it's turned out to be unneeded and the Linux kernel is working now to reduce the excessive cache flushing...
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      Linux 7.4 Features Very Exciting With Radeon HDMI 2.1 By Default, AMD PerfOpt, Apple M4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:50

    The Linux 7.3 kernel is expected to be released as stable later today and with that version there are many exciting changes and improvements. However, the Linux 7.4 kernel merge window will then open up and there are even more exciting changes expected to be merged for this follow-on kernel cycle. Here is a preview of some of the many exciting feature changes expected for Linux 7.4...
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      Omarchy Gets The Web Browser Launching Faster By Avoiding XDG Overhead

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:23

    Omarchy 4.0.5 released this weeekend as the newest version of this Arch Linux based distribution built around the Hyprland desktop. Omarchy 4.0.5 pulls in the latest Linux 7.2 stable kernel with BORE scheduler, updates against the Qt 6.12 toolkit, and a variety of smaller improvements...
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      Servo Gets CSS Grid Working, Threadboost Offering Big Speed-Ups

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:05

    Servo's August status report has finally appeared for outlining progress made on this open-source, Rust-based browser engine. This follows the recent release of the Servo 0.6 software, including the Servoshell demo browser...
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      Synchronous Queues For VirtIO-FS Show Huge Performance Potential

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:55

    VirtIO-FS as the shared file-system for transferring data between guest VMs to/from a host server is showing some promising performance results with pending code for allowing synchronous queues rather than always being asynchronous...
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      ReactOS Can Now Be Installed & Used With Its NTFS Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    The ReactOS open-source operating system has seen its NTFS file-system driver mature to the point that it can be finally used for installing and using ReactOS with it. NTFS formatting support is also finally now possible with this driver too...
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      MeshXFS: AI Adapts XFS Into A Clustered File-System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    MeshXFS is a clustered open-source file-system in which "no human wrote any of its own code". Depending upon your views of AI, not necessarily something you want to hear for entrusting your data in an AI-created solution. Instead, Claude Opus was tasked with adapting the XFS file-system driver into a clustered file-system...
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      Linux Lands Fix for Rare, Varying SMP Boot Hangs Affecting Kernels Since 2024

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Among the flurry of last minute patch activity ahead of tomorrow's presumed Linux 7.3 stable kernel release is a fix for addressing some rare hangs at boot time. The reports varied but ultimately tracked down to a kernel change made two years ago...
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      GNOME's New Local/Cloud AI Chat App Gains More Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Coming about the past few months has been Moose as a GNOME-aligned AI chat application built around GTK4 and libadwaita. It began as a local AI chat app for the GNOME desktop and grew to support cloud AI services as well. This past week marked the latest feature release for Moose...