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      Ubuntu 23.10 Looks Like It Will Switch To Using Dbus-Broker

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 May, 2023

    While distributions like Fedora Linux have been using Dbus-Broker for years already as their high performance D-Bus compatible implementation to, for Ubuntu 23.10 later this year is finally where it looks like Ubuntu will be transitioning to this better alternative to dbus-daemon...
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      "Guilty" API Proposed For Better Communicating Why Radeon GPUs Hang/Reset

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 May, 2023

    A set of patches to the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver and Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver would allow more easily relaying information about the reasons why a GPU hang/reset occur so that the user-space software can be more informed about any issues...
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      Linux 6.4 Spring Cleaning: Ditching Two Old USB Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 May, 2023

    The USB/Thunderbolt changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.4 kernel and it ended up being a net reduction in the number of lines of code as a result of ditching two outdated USB drivers...
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      Silly Open-Source Moves, AMD openSIL & Rust Happenings Made For An Interesting Month

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 May, 2023

    During this month on Phoronix were 242 news articles on Phoronix with original content each and every day presented by your's truly around open-source and Linux. April was interesting with the release of Linux 6.3, all of the exciting Linux 6.4 features merged so far, AMD introducing openSIL for open-source CPU silicon initialization with support for Coreboot and similar firmware solutions, Fedora 38 and Ubuntu 23.04 being released, and much more...
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      EROFS Receives Some Useful Improvements With Linux 6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April, 2023

    It sure doesn't feel like it's already been five years since Huawei announced EROFS as a read-only file-system initially designed for Android devices but has proven useful in the mainline Linux kernel to Linux users at large with interesting use-cases also coming up around containers and more. With the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel are yet more improvements to this read-only file-system...
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      AMD IOMMU With Linux 6.4 Supports 5-Level Guest Page Tables

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April, 2023

    Back in 2021 AMD began preparing Linux kernel support for 5-level paging support with their future processors and building off the prior 5-level page table kernel support established by Intel. That was followed by AMD enabling 5-level page table support with KVM SVM in the Linux 5.15 kernel. AMD CPUs with 5-level page table support since launched in the form of 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" processors. One piece only now coming together though is AMD IOMMU driver support for 5-level guest page table support...
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      OpenRazer 3.6 Brings Support For New Razer Peripherals On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April, 2023

    While prominent gaming peripheral manufacturer Razer still is not officially supporting Linux with their vast array of products, thanks to the community-driven OpenRazer project there is unofficial open-source support and can work quite well when paired with the likes of Polychromatic as a nice user interface. Out today is OpenRazer 3.6 in enabling the latest Razer products on Linux...
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      Linux 6.4 Continues Bringing Up More Compute Express Link Feature Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April, 2023

    With the work led by Intel engineers on bringing up the Compute Express Link specification features into the open-source kernel, Linux 6.4 is another cycle seeing a lot of enablement work on the CXL front...
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      HID Updates Bring Apple Quirks, Nintendo Controller Rumble Turning Into Vibrator Fix

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April, 2023

    The HID subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 6.4 kernel that is now half-way through its merge window...