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// PHORONIX — LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
One of the biggest surprises this year was IBM collaborating with Arm for "dual architecture" hardware. In addition to the IBM s390 hardware side, this "dual architecture" support for running ARM64 instructions on s390 also requires Linux KVM virtualization support with patches we've seen the past n...
// PHORONIX — LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
A new feature of EPYC 9006 "Venice" server processors that isn't yet brought up in the public Linux software support is AMD Root Guest (ARG). The initial patches are expected in Q1'2027 for further enhancing the AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing experience......
// PHORONIX — LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
In addition to a number of laptops powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 beginning to see Linux support, there's now a X2 Elite powered mini PC seeing Linux patches too......
// SLASHDOT — LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
Arch-based Manjaro Linux "has announced that Manjaro Project e.V. is now officially registered as a non-profit in Germany," reports Linuxiac, "and is therefore a legally separate entity from the commercial Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG... after months of internal wrangling over who was in charge of the ...
// SLASHDOT — LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
The Register writes that "The worst of the patchpocalypse may be behind us, according to Linus Torvalds." In his weekly kernel update post, Torvalds said Linux 7.4 rc2 was a big release partly because it contained code he'd left out of rc1 because he'd been busy and it was already the largest such ...
// ENGADGET — MOBILE & WEB
Don’t worry; your computer isn’t being transported back to the past.
There's a good chance you've seen the date January 1, 1970 on a computer or other device, even if you weren't alive back then. You might assume this represents a significant date in computing, or that it's a random placeholder dat...
// PHORONIX — LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
Very basic support for the Apple M5 SoC base model is expected to be merged for the Linux 7.5 kernel now that it's been queued into the "apple-soc/dt-7.5" Git branch......
// WIRED US/UK — HARDWARE & GADGET
Most of my Steam collection won't run on my Mac. It's not (entirely) my fault.
I will be the first to admit that my collection is mostly old indie games, all of which work fine on Windows. Less so on the Mac. Apple stopped supporting 32-bit games back in 2019 when it released macOS Catalina. A good...
// ITS FOSS — LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
A request to ban AI-written code from ImageMagick stayed open for about eight months, until a maintainer closed and locked it this week because it had largely run its course and moved into a broader ideological debate.
Around the same time, a developer on X was telling followers to join the pushbac...
// PHORONIX — LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
Along with Intel posting initial GCC compiler patches for Coral Rapids and Razor Lake processors, the first Linux kernel patch for these future Intel server and desktop/laptop processors have also arrived......