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      AMD Preparing Linux For Enhanced SMT Protection "ESMTP" For EPYC VMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:03

    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...
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      GNU Coreutils 9.12 Released With Performance Optimizations, New uname Option

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:45

    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...
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      Valve's Steam Frame Now Available At $1059+ USD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:05

    Valve just announced their long-awaited Steam Frame headset is now available...
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      Rustls 0.23.45 Released To Fix Two Year Old Security Issue

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:35

    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...
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      Firefox 156 Available With Its Built-In PDF Viewer Starting Up To 45% Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:09

    Mozilla today published their Firefox 156.0 release binaries ahead of the official Tuesday announcement...
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      Linux 7.3 Delivering Some Performance Gains On Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:42

    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.
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      Removing Drivers For Outdated ARM Platforms Will Lighten The Kernel By ~247k Lines

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:32

    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...
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      Linux 7.4 Could End Up Seeing Kernel Builds ~36% Faster, Incremental Builds ~70% Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:31

    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...
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      Linux Patched For Silent User-Space Data Loss Bug That's Existed Since 2023

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:13

    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...