A big focus for the FreeBSD 15.0 development was on supporting reproducible builds as has been a growing trend in the open-source ecosystem in recent years| www.phoronix.com
The Asahi Linux developers involved with working on Linux support for Apple Silicon M-Series devices have put out a new progress report on their development efforts.| www.phoronix.com
Amid Intel's ongoing financial difficulties and multiple rounds of layoffs some Linux engineers at Intel left last year and there's been at least one prominent departure this week amid the latest round of challenges at the company.| www.phoronix.com
Zhaoxin Shijidadao CPU support was upstreamed today into the GCC 15 compiler codebase| www.phoronix.com
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list and GNU Binutils mailing list today is an intriguing message from a longtime x86/x86_64 expert around a 'a corporate entity other than Intel/AMD' using some x86 opcodes not used by AMD or Intel processors.| www.phoronix.com
Git developers have been talking in recent weeks around release plans for Git 3.0| www.phoronix.com
Version 1.4.327 of the Vulkan API specification was released on Friday and with it comes one new extension, which is a Valve vendor extension.| www.phoronix.com
David Rosca who started out as a contractor for AMD working on their open-source video encode/decode capabilities for Linux formally joined the company earlier this summer| www.phoronix.com
Since the release of FFmpeg 6.1 last year there has been accelerated Vulkan Video decoding support while being merged to FFmpeg Git this weekend is the Vulkan Video encode support.| www.phoronix.com
While the FFmpeg multimedia library merged Vulkan Video encode support last year, it was initially limited to H.264 and H.265 formats| www.phoronix.com
Linus Torvalds has come out strong against proposed support for RISC-V big endian capabilities within the Linux kernel.| www.phoronix.com
With Linux 6.17 was the decision by Linus Torvalds to mark Bcachefs as 'externally maintained' and not accept any new Bcachefs code into the mainline kernel but keeping the existing code within the tree| www.phoronix.com
Google engineers on Wednesday posted an initial 'request for comments' set of patches that re-implement Android's Binder code within the Linux kernel in the Rust programming language rather than C.| www.phoronix.com
The past few years Google engineers have been reimplementing Android's Binder driver in the Rust programming language| www.phoronix.com
This week's round of power management fixes for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel are on the more notable side with fixes for both AMD and Intel P-State drivers plus addressing a system hibernation issue that could lead to 'serious breakage' and stems from a Linux 6.16 regression.| www.phoronix.com
Google engineers and others have been talking about Address Space Isolation 'ASI' for the Linux kernel to better deal with speculative execution attacks and other CPU vulnerabilities| www.phoronix.com
Proposed a few years ago was Kernel Address Space Isolation (KASI / ASI) for limiting data leaks with the growing number of speculative execution attacks on CPUs| www.phoronix.com
Several years ago Google engineers began exploring address space isolation for the Linux kernel and ultimately proposing Linux ASI for better dealing with CPU speculative execution attacks| www.phoronix.com
Well, it's an unpleasant afternoon in Linux land with more signs of the ongoing impact from Intel's corporate-wide restructuring| www.phoronix.com
The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs| www.phoronix.com
The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution| www.phoronix.com
Linus Torvalds is sharing some of his classic and straight-to-the-point wisdom today over file-systems with case-folding / case-insensitive file and folder support.| www.phoronix.com
Nearly two years ago patches for casefolding / case insensitive file and folder support on Bcachefs were posted by a Valve/Linux developer| www.phoronix.com
The drama surrounding Rust code within the Linux kernel continues..| www.phoronix.com
One of the limitations of AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver has been the inability to implement HDMI 2.1+ functionality on the basis of legal requirements by the HDMI Forum| www.phoronix.com