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      Microsoft Announces Public Preview For Linux Containers On WSL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:49

    Microsoft today shipped the first public preview of WSL Containers "WSLC" as their latest extension of the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11...
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      Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes Back To AMD Ryzen System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:28

    Red Hat senior software engineer Marcin Juszkiewicz of Red Hat's ARM Team had been dogfeeding with an AArch64 Linux desktop being used as his primary, personal system for nearly the past year. But now he shared he has gone back to using his AMD Ryzen desktop instead over AArch64 Linux issues encountered with his Ampere Altra desktop...
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      Infinity Scheduler Aims To Be A Better Linux Scheduler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:52

    The Infinity Scheduler is another attempt at improving the CPU scheduling behavior under Linux and created by the developer behind the existing "scx_flow" sched_ext scheduler. But Infinity Scheduler isn't taking the approach of using sched_ext and is rather patched into the Linux kernel in modifying CFS and RT behavior...
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      AMD Linux Patches Introduce New "Low Power" CPU Core Type

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:32

    A new Linux kernel patch series posted to the kernel mailing list minutes ago is introducing a new "Low Power" CPU core type for AMD heterogeneous processors. The x86 topology code in the Linux kernel already supports the notion of Performance and Efficiency type cores while now a new "Low Power" core type is being introduced for AMD heterogeneous platforms...
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      ZLUDA v6 Gets PhysX Running Well On AMD GPUs But Loses Commercial Funding

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:20

    ZLUDA as a reminder is the open-source project that began as drop-in CUDA support for Intel graphics hardware and then was quietly funded by AMD for years as a drop-in CUDA replacement on AMD GPUs that went open-source after losing funding. That was then taken down and since late 2024 ZLUDA then began focusing on multi-GPU CUDA focused on AI after beginning to receive funding from an unspecified party. Now, unfortunately, funding has once again been cut from that unnamed party but in turn ZLUDA is focusing on PhysX and better Windows support...
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      TLAC Aims To Be An Open-Source Alternative To Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:06

    It's not clear that any games have yet to deploy this open-source anti-cheat system but TLAC is a new open-source project that aims to provide a privacy-respecting alternative to kernel-level anti-cheat systems like Denuvo, Easy Anti-Cheat, and BattlEye...
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      RADV Enables Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:35

    In time for the Mesa 26.2 stable release expected out in August, the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver is now exposing the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap descriptor heap support by default...
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      Mageia 10 Released For This Linux Distribution Carrying On The Mandrake Legacy

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:10

    Mageia 10 ISOs are now available for this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva Linux and in turn the legendary Mandrake Linux...
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      Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.4 Adds Dank Material Shell + Niri Desktop Option

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:41

    Ahead of the July 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, a new Archinstall 4.4 release has been tagged for this text-based and very convenient installer for Arch Linux...