Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google is adding GPU acceleration for graphical Linux apps to Android’s Terminal app, but the feature is currently exclusive to the Pixel 10. This feature relies on Gfxstream, a library that forwards graphics API calls from the guest Linux virtual machine to the host Android device’s GPU for accelerated rendering. Though the feature is …
Read More »Well this wasn’t on my bingo card for 2025… There is now yet another NTFS file-system driver for Linux. There’s long been the read-only NTFS driver in the Linux kernel, the more capable NTFS FUSE driver in user-space, and then in recent years the NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel by Paragon Software. NTFS3 offers read/write support …
Read More »Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list one month ago were patches for a multi-kernel architecture design to allow multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on the same single physical machine. This could let some CPU cores be running real-time “RT” kernels or other non-traditional uses between CPU cores. It wasn’t clear how far the multi-kernel patches would get especially …
Read More »Linux 6.18-rc2 is now available with another week’s worth of fixes for Linux 6.18, which is anticipated to be this year’s Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version. Since last week’s closing of the Linux 6.18 merge window, Linux 6.18-rc2 brings in many different fixes throughout thanks to early testing of this new kernel version. Among the fixes are an assortment …
Read More »A few days back we reported on a Meta engineer uncovering an architectural issue with RDSEED usage on AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” CPUs. It ended up being found to affect more CPU models than originally anticipated and a new patch posted to the Linux kernel mailing list would disable RDSEED usage across all AMD Zen 5 processors. Gregory Price of …
Read More »Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their “biggest launch ever” Neowin Zorin OS 18 Released Just in Time for Windows 10 EOL It’s FOSS News Windows 10 support has ended, but Zorin OS 18 is here as the ultimate alternative to Windows 11 BetaNews Zorin OS 18 Released with New Look, New Apps + More OMG! Ubuntu Zorin OS 18 …
Read More »I’m recomming my customers switch to Linux rather that Upgrade to Windows 11 Hacker NewsView Full Coverage on Google News Source link
Read More »Intel confirms Xe3p GPU architecture for Nova Lake-S in new Linux kernel update VideoCardz.com Intel Reveals 160-GB, Energy-Efficient Inference GPU As Part Of New Yearly Cadence CRN Magazine Intel unveils Crescent Island, an inference-only GPU with Xe3P architecture and 160GB of memory Tom’s Hardware Xe3P architecture coming to Intel’s next Arc GPUs in roadmap update DLCompare.com So, Is Intel Still Making Graphics Cards? Gizmodo Source …
Read More »The IOMMU driver changes were merged this week for Linux 6.18 with new material to benefit Intel, AMD, Apple, and RISC-V systems. The Intel VT-d IOMMU driver has been updated against the latest upstream VT-d specification and brings several fixes and code clean-ups. Over on the AMD side the AMD-Vi driver now is able to cope with Kdump boot handling …
Read More »Linux engineer at Microsoft Christian Brauner sent out his set of 12 pull requests touching the VFS portion of the Linux kernel. These changes for the Linux 6.18 kernel include one pull request that touches the writeback code to address a situation of lockups being reported by users when systemd units read lots of files. The problem at hand with …
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