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      ASUS Will Take Over Intel's NUC Systems Line Moving Ahead

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 July, 2023

    Intel announced this evening they agreed to a term sheet with ASUS for manufacturing, selling, and supporting the Next Unit of Compute (more commonly known as NUCs) from 10th to 13th generation systems and to develop future NUC system designs...
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      Intel Rolls Out thunderbolt-utils To Manage USB4/Thunderbolt Devices On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 July, 2023

    In addition to Intel engineers being responsible for much of the Linux kernel driver work around USB4 and Thunderbolt, they have now published thunderbolt-utils as a collection of user-space utilities for managing USB4/Thunderbolt on Linux environments...
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      Ubuntu's Mir 2.14 Released With Wayland Drag & Drop, Screen Locker Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 July, 2023

    A new version of Canonical's Mir display server was released today that these days serves as a library for building Wayland-based shells...
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      NVIDIA 535.86.05 Linux Driver Fixes Excessive Memory Use, Kernel Panic On Full vRAM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 July, 2023

    NVIDIA today published their latest stable point release in the R535 Linux driver series to fix a variety of outstanding issues...
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      MySQL 8.1 Released With More JSON Additions, Other Changes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 July, 2023

    MySQL 8.1 is available today with the community server builds now available for this latest major update to this popular SQL database server...
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      New Linux Kernel Code Works On APIC "Decrapification", Suggests Dropping x86 32-bit

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 July, 2023

    There's a lovely new Linux kernel patch series out that's big in working on a major clean-up of the x86 APIC code (or "decrapification" as it's called in the patches) and also bringing up for discussion the idea of killing off x86 32-bit support. It's unlikely the x86 32-bit support will be removed right now, which is "just museum pieces", but as an alternative would be making it SMP-only to at least remove the uni-processor code paths...
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      Fake Sparse Support Being Worked On For Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 July, 2023

    While Intel Arc Graphics continue enjoying performance optimizations with the open-source Linux graphics driver stack, the major limitation facing Arc Graphics on Linux right now for gamers is the lack of sparse residency support that is needed for running many newer games on Linux with Intel graphics -- particularly newer Windows D3D12 titles running on Linux via Valve's Steam Play. It's been a long known limitation and will hopefully be addressed once the Intel Xe kernel driver is introduced, but at least as an interim solution there is now "fake" sparse support being implemented...
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      Arm Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Patches Debut For The Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 July, 2023

    A set of 35 patches were posted on Sunday for introducing ARM64 Guarded Control Stack (GCS) support to the Linux kernel. This is akin to x86 Shadow Stack support for hardware-protected stacks of return addresses to help fend off ROP attacks...
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      Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230630 Ships Security Fixes, Adds In Some Extra Bits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 July, 2023

    CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230630 is now shipping as Microsoft's newest in-house Linux distribution release...