System76 continues teasing the in-house laptop design they are working on codenamed Virgo ..read more

Last week XFS users began encountering metadata corruption on the latest Linux 6.3 point releases. Following kernel developers and those testing the kernels on affected hardware over the US holiday weekend, it's believed the issue has been tracked down to one missing patch that is a one line of code being deleted ..read more

While GCC 13 saw its first stable release several weeks back, for those taking their time in moving to major new compiler releases and still relying on the two-year-old GCC 11 series, out today is the GCC 11.4 point release ..read more

Arm today announced the new high-end Cortex-X4 CPU core design for delivering their most powerful Cortex compute cluster ..read more

Vulkan 1.3.251 is out today as a rare Sunday morning spec update for this Khronos graphics/compute API ..read more

A few days ago I wrote about a Linux kernel patch being prepared for fixing Intel hybrid CPU SMP/HT topology reporting due to the way the Linux kernel was currently counting the number of Hyper Threading siblings for each core. Fortunately, that fix which is apparently becomes more pressing for upcoming Meteor Lake processors, has now been picked up in time for today's Linux 6.4-rc4 release and is set for back-porting to stable kernel series ..read more

The Debian 12 "Bookworm" release is quickly approaching with an early June release date while for helping facilitate more last minute testing is a fourth release candidate of the updated Debian Installer ..read more

The Virgl driver within Mesa for allowing open-source OpenGL support within virtualized environments in conjunction with the Virglrenderer is now capable of exposing OpenGL 4.6 ..read more

An updated set of patches were posted on Friday that seem to improve the Linux guest VM performance when the host is under heavy memory pressure ..read more

Intel Linux kernel graphics driver developers are looking at making use of Netlink for exposing RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability) and telemetry fwatures of kernel graphics drivers to user-space for their modern GPUs ..read more