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      Linux 7.2 Preparing Intel Key Protection Technology "KPT" For Next-Gen QAT

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:37

    Going back to the launch of 1st Gen Xeon Scalable processors in 2017 was Intel Key Protection Technology (KPT) promoted and there have been Key Protection Technology references in QuickAssist (QAT) documentation since 2016. Surprisingly we are only now seeing Key Protection Technology references for the upstream Linux QAT driver as Intel engineers prepare for their next-gen "Gen6" QuickAssist hardware support...
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      Lightweight Pragtical Code Editor Adds SDL GPU Backend

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:14

    Pragtical, the lightweight open-source code editor that prides itself on using just ~50MB of RAM and ~10MB of disk space while being a full-featured code editor, is tacking on more features. Most notable with the new Pragtical release is adding an SDL-based GPU back-end for this MIT-licensed editor...
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      Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:02

    The open-source developers at Georgia Tech working on Vortex as an OpenCL-compatible RISC-V GPGPU implementation are out with their next major release for this open-source GPU design...
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      Ubuntu MATE Is Continuing Despite No Ubuntu MATE 26.04 Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:45

    Back in March, Martin Wimpress stepped down as the longtime Ubuntu MATE leader and was looking for contributors to keep this Ubuntu derivative going with its GNOME2-derived desktop. That change in leadership paired with no Ubuntu MATE 26.04 release having occurred led to some concerns among users, but the plan is still for Ubuntu MATE to continue moving forward...
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      Fedora 44 RISC-V Images Released, Including New "Omni" Kernel For Broader RISC-V Hardware Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:25

    Following the official Fedora 44 images released one month ago, Fedora 44 RISC-V images were published today for those wanting to run this newest Fedora Linux on RISC-V hardware...
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      AMD Support Being Added To UFS Host Controller PCI Driver In Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Linux's ufshcd-pci as the Universal Flash Storage host controller PCI driver has supported a variety of Intel devices to this point while for Linux 7.2 the first AMD device is set to be added...
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      Running CachyOS With The BORE Scheduler While Disabling Ananicy-CPP

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Last week I ran benchmarks of CachyOS with the BORE scheduler using its "linux-cachyos-bore" kernel option. The results didn't end up being as enticing as anticipated but the developer behind the BORE scheduler commented in the forums that he recently received reports from users experiencing game stuttering while using BORE that was attributed to CachyOS' default use of Ananicy-Cpp. So over the weekend I did another CachyOS BORE run without that CachyOS default...
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      Linux 7.1 Helping Intel Arc Battlemage Graphics Achieve Better Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Recent testing of the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage desktop graphics card has shown that the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is delivering superior graphics performance over the current stable Linux 7.0 kernel.
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      Xfce Ported To Rust-Written Redox OS For Better X11 Experience

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    The belated "This Month in Redox" was posted today for covering improvements made to this open-source, Rust-based operating system during the month of May. Most notable in May is seeing the Xfce desktop ported over to Redox OS...