NetBSD 11.0 Nears Release With RC3 Released For Testing
…for fast virtual machine booting, better POSIX.1-2024 compliance, and an assortment of other enhancements. Plus plenty of typical package updates are in tow like OpenSSH 10 and GCC 12.5…
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Initial Linux Driver Patches For Smart Data Accelerator Interface "SDXI"
…With SDXI it's possible to have direct, user-mode access to hardware accelerators without CPU intervention and to also jive well in virtualized environments. It's been years in the making…
Oracle To Reduce The Frequency Of Solaris 11.4 Updates
…13 Comments Oracle announced today they are going to be reducing the frequency of software updates for Solaris 11.4 and their ZFS Storage Appliance software. Currently Oracle ships a new SRU…
FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 Updates OpenZFS, Ensures Cloud Images Up-To-Date On First Boot
…support, continued virtualization enhancements, DTrace probes support on PowerPC architectures, the sched_ule scheduler is now implemented as a scheduler instance, removal of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure build targets, and a variety of…
KDE Plasma 6.7 Ready With Wayland Session Management, Other New Improvements
…At long last, with Plasma 6.7 is Wayland session management protocol support in an effort for apps on Wayland to remember their sizes and positions and more after restarting the system…
Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 - Still On Linux 6.12 LTS Base
…The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is Oracle's premier Linux kernel option for Oracle Linux with additional features and other extra hardening and capabilities compared to what is the RHEL-compatible kernel version…
Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers
…The Intel Iris, Crocus, and ANV drivers in this release also now support VirIO-GPU native-context support for improving Intel GPU support para-virtualized in VMs. Among the many OpenGL and…
Linux's Second-In-Command Turns To New Fuzzing Tools For Uncovering Kernel Bugs
…fuzzing tools on the ksmbd and smb code purely because it's something that is simple to set up and test locally with virtual machines, and in doing so, potentially found some…
Plasma 6.7 Improves Its Built-In Remote Desktop Server, Enhances Plasma Notifications
…what triggers Plasma's virtual keyboard to appear on-screen. KDE's "hide from screencast" feature has been extended for windows to now be "hide from screenshots and screen recordings" if wanting…
AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2
…AIE4 driver implementation with handling device partitioning, command doorbell and wait support, buffer initialization, and other work -- including the SR-IOV Virtual Function (VF) bits with SR-IOV appearing to be supported…