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GNOME OS Creating "Test Center" As Its Take On Apple TestFlight For Experiment Software
7+ hour, 58+ min ago (230+ words) GNOME developers working on GNOME OS have received funding from Germany's Prototype Fund to work on creating the GNOME OS "Developer Tool Suite" or also tentatively called their "Test Center" to help in testing experimental applications/libraries in a modern…...
Reworked System Call Entry Handling Slated For Linux 7.3
8+ hour, 19+ min ago (241+ words) Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number…...
Cloud Hypervisor 53 Released With Offloaded Snapshot/Restore Daemon
8+ hour, 48+ min ago (214+ words) Cloud Hypervisor 53.0 is now available for this open-source, Rust-based VMM focused on cloud workloads and modern security needs. Originally started at Intel, Cloud Hypervisor continues seeing new development these days by Microsoft, Meta, Arm, and other organizations... - Categories Computers Display…...
Raspberry Pi 5 IOMMU Driver Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel
8+ hour, 36+ min ago (232+ words) While the Raspberry Pi 5 is already over two and a half years old, one of the missing elements of its support from the mainline Linux kernel has been the IOMMU driver. We are now seeing Raspberry Pi's downstream IOMMU driver…...
Linux 7.2-rc3 Released: Close To The "New Normal"
20+ hour, 38+ min ago (184+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Linux 7.2-rc3 Released: Close To The "New Normal" Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a…...
Linux 7.2 Enabling UltraRISC RISC-V Support In The Default Kernel Build
22+ hour, 12+ min ago (213+ words) Similar to Linux 7.2 enabling Eswin SoC support by default in the RISC-V "defconfig" kernel build, UltraRISC RISC-V coverage is also now being enabled by default for RISC-V kernel builds in Linux 7.2... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory…...
Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi Linux Driver Hardened Against Malicious WiFi Access Points
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (222+ words) The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi…...
Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Fixes For The SEGA Dreamcast Drivers In 2026
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (208+ words) It wasn't on my bingo card for the week but merged to Git ahead of today's Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel release are a number of fixes for the SEGA Dreamcast drivers... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors…...
HFI BIOS Aims To Provide A POST-Like Power On Screen & BIOS Setup Utility For RISC-V
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (245+ words) The Harmonic Firmware Initiative "HFI" is trying to provide a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V boards. Akin to the x86 world with having immediate graphics card initialization to provide a display while the system is booting and also having…...
Debian 13.6 Released To Ship All The Latest Security Fixes, Reverts GeoIP Database
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (192+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Debian 13.6 Released To Ship All The Latest Security Fixes, Reverts GeoIP Database Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded…...