CrossOver 25.1 released today with better controller support, resolving issues with the EA and Ubisoft game launchers, various compatibility enhancements, fixing some Steam issues, and more.
CodeWeavers CrossOver 25.1 Improves The Stability Of Microsoft Office On Linux
CrossOver 25.1 released today with better controller support, resolving issues with the EA and Ubisoft game launchers, various compatibility enhancements, fixing some Steam issues, and more.
Linux Kernel Patched For AMD SEV-SNP Cache Coherency Vulnerability
Merged a few minutes ago to Linux Git is a mitigation for a cache coherency issue affecting AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) implementation. The commit explains:
"Add a mitigation for a cache coherency vulnerability when running an SNP guest which makes sure all cache lines belonging to a 4K page are evicted after latter has been converted to a guest-
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Framework Desktop vs. Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Performance
Last week alongside our Framework Desktop review with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" SoC I posted benchmarks of the Strix Halo performance compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X / 9950X3D socketed desktop processors. For those wondering similarly how the top-end Strix Halo SoC in the Framework Desktop competes with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" flagship in performance and power efficiency, here are those comparison benchmarks.
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Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 Released With Completed 64-bit Support, Rust Ported
This snapshot of Debian GNU/Hurd comes with i386 and x86_64 install images. For now the recommended way of using Debian GNU/Hurd continues to be via virtual machines (VMs) given the limited hardware support for Hurd.
NVIDIA 580.76.05 Linux Driver Updates EGL Bits, Adds New MetaMode Attribute
Last week's R580 beta brought fifo-v1 support with Vulkan on Wayland, updated GPU clock reporting, and a variety of other nice enhancements over the NVIDIA 575 series.
ZLUDA Implements Kernel Cache Support To Help With Performance
ZLUDA lead developer Andrzej Janik has implemented a kernel cache in order to cache PTX code on-disk to avoid subsequent recompilations. This kernel cache leverages an SQLite database and is another step (of many) to help with bettering the performance of this CUDA implementation
Itanium IA-64 Support May Revert Back To Being Deprecated/Obsolete For GCC 16
As there hasn't been a full GCC test suite run in one year and falling behind in supporting other GCC features compared to
Intel Adds Another Battlemage BMG-G21 PCI ID To Their Linux Driver
Intel recently merged a new PCI device ID to their Xe kernel driver for Linux 6.17. That's also marked for back-porting to supported stable Linux kernel versions going back to Linux 6.12.
Merged this morning was the similar patch for the Intel Mesa driver code. The patch identifies the new 0
Fedora 43 Approved To Ship Hare Programming Language Support, Hardlinking Default
Fedora 43 is now cleared to ship packages for Hare as a new systems programming language aiming to be simple, stable, and robust. Hare itself remains under development while now is approved by FESCo to package up and ship the Hare toolchain in the Fedora 43 repository.
Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Increases Wayland Compatibility, UI Enhancements
Linux Mint 22.2 features more of its applications now compatible with Wayland, UI enhancements like new artwork to more rounded corners to an enhanced login screen, Fingwit as a new app for handling fingerprint authentication, improved compatibility with libadwaita, and other enhancements.
Linux Mint 22.2 continues making use of the Ubuntu 24