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      Linux 6.6 Will Avoid Unnecessary Kernel Panics On AMD Zen Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 August, 2023

    As part of the Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) updates submitted today for the Linux 6.6 kernel is adding a quirk/workaround for dealing with current AMD Zen systems where a processor bug could lead to erroneously increased error severity and unneeded kernel panics...
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      Multi-Grained Timestamps Submitted For Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 August, 2023

    In addition to the fchmodat2 system call, another early pull request submitted by Microsoft's Christian Brauner even before the Linux 6.5 kernel was released is one to introduce multi-grained timestamps with Linux 6.6. Multi-grained timestamps are intended to address an issue exhibited with NFS around caching and the current coarse-grained timestamp handling used for (in)validating caches...
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      Linux 6.5 Released With AMD P-State EPP Default, USB4 v2, MIDI 2.0 & More Hardware Bits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 August, 2023

    While at the start of Linux 6.5 cycle Linus Torvalds was concerned this release "may be one of those releases that may drag out", in the end it is releasing today and right on schedule. Linux 6.5 was just published rather than going into overtime without any extra release candidate...
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      Ampere Computing Publishes Guide For Steam Play Games On Their AArch64 Server CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 August, 2023

    While Ampere Computing's wares with the Altra (Max) and forthcoming AmpereOne families of AArch64 server processors are designed for the data center, if you feel so inclined they have published a guide on being able to run Steam for Linux on these ARM64 processors -- including Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying Windows games on these Linux servers...
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      fchmodat2 System Call Submitted For Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 August, 2023

    Ahead of the Linux 6.5 stable kernel being released there have already been a few pull requests submitted of new feature material for Linux 6.6. Among the early pulls for v6.6 is one from prominent Linux developer Christian Brauner at Microsoft that introduces the fchmodat2() system call as an evolution of fchmodat()...
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      Flatpak Lands Support For Wayland Security Context

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 August, 2023

    The Flatpak open-source app sandboxing tech has merged support for the Wayland security context protocol...
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      Many Features Ahead With Linux 6.6: EEVDF Scheduler, New AMD CPU Features, NVK uAPI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 August, 2023

    While there are many exciting features with Linux 6.5 which will hopefully be released as stable later today, ahead for the imminent Linux 6.6 merge window are another hearty batch of new features set to be introduced...
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      Mageia 9 Released With SQLite-Based RPM Package Database, Zstd Compressed Images

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 August, 2023

    While the release cycle dragged on for several extra months, available this weekend is the release of Mageia 9 for this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva that in turn was an evolution going back to the glorious Mandrake days. Mageia 9 is a nice update pulling in many package updates along with other fundamental changes like shifting to SQLite for its RPM package database...
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      Linux 6.5 Last Minute Fixes A Performance Regression - 34% Drop In A Micro-Benchmark

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 August, 2023

    While Linux 6.5 is expected for release tomorrow, the flow of last minute fixes isn't over...