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Redox OS Makes Progress On Dynamic Linking, New Ports

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February, 2025

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is out with a new status report to highlight the progress their developers made over the course of January...

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FFmpeg Lands Video Encoding/Decoding Improvements For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February, 2025

Merged this week to FFmpeg Git for this widely-used open-source multimedia library are a number of NVIDIA video encoding "NVENC" improvements for benefiting the new GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" graphics processors...

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Ubuntu Infrastructure Woe Continues Making It A Hassle To Run The Latest Upstream Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February, 2025

The Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA for years has been a great feature for Ubuntu users to be able to easily fetch and run the newest upstream kernel whether it's the latest stable kernel version, one of the weekly release candidates, or even the very leading-edge daily Git kernel builds. Sadly for months now this service has been out of order...

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Linux 6.15 Looks Like It May Try Again With EXECMEM_ROX Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February, 2025

Initially merged back for the Linux 6.13 kernel was EXECMEM_ROX support for module text on x86_64 systems. With this caching of large ROX pages it can help with lowering TLB instruction pressure and enhancing performance. But this EXECMEM_ROX support that was contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up being reverted in the final days of Linux 6.13. The revert came due to bugs and not having any Linux x86 maintainers signing off on the code. This code has been getting into shape for trying again with the mainline kernel...

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Debian 13 Will Aim To Include GNOME 48, Debian/Ubuntu Begin Packaging GNOME Papers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February, 2025

For those wondering whether Debian 13 would see the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop packages given the upcoming Debian 13 "Trixie" development freezes, it looks like this updated GNOME release will be squeezed in...

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Igalia's Optimizations Juicing More Graphics Performance Out Of The Raspberry Pi

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February, 2025

Igalia engineers José María Casanova Crespo and Maíra Canal presented at FOSDEM this past weekend in Brussels around the efforts by this open-source consulting firm to further enhance the 3D performance out of the Raspberry Pi single board computers...

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Serpent OS Development Slowing Down Amid Lack Of Funding

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February, 2025

Serpent OS is the original Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux fame and has been pursuing its own package management system and new innovations in the Linux distribution landscape. While there has been recent success and new development builds coming out, feature development on Serpent OS is expected to slowdown now due to a lack of project funding...

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FreeBSD On Laptops Effort Gets Proof-Of-Concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi Working

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February, 2025

In addition to the FreeBSD Foundation funding work on s0ix sleep state support as part of their initiative to improve FreeBSD's support for modern laptops, they have also been funding work on a number of other objectives, including better WiFi driver coverage. A milestone now being achieved for 2025 is getting a proof-of-concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi driver support working for this BSD operating system...

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GEICO Insurance Company Developing TuxTape - A New Linux Kernel Livepatching Solution

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 February, 2025

Red Hat's Kpatch, Oracle's Ksplice, and SUSE's kGraft are the most well known solutions currently for Linux kernel live-patching primarily for applying security patches to running Linux servers. It wasn't on my bingo card for insurance giant GEICO working baking their own Linux kernel live-patching solution, but they announced it this weekend and it will soon be open-source...

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