Trust Domain Extensions is a great feature of modern Xeon processors as hardware-based confidential computing tech for VM isolation.
Intel TDX Runtime Updates Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2
Trust Domain Extensions is a great feature of modern Xeon processors as hardware-based confidential computing tech for VM isolation.
Canonical Releases Workshop As New Way Of Launching Development Environments
Workshop allows launching development environments with ease and the YAML configuration files for said environments can be copied across machines for reproducing the same environments.
ReactOS Now Running On ARM64 In Experimental Form
ReactOS has long catered to i586 and AMD64 while thanks to the work of an open-source contributor the past many months, ReactOS is now able to boot on ARM64.
Google's ANGLE Merges Wayland Support, Unblocking Chromium Embedded Framework On Wayland
Google's ANGLE graphics abstraction layer for translacing OpenGL ES 2/3 calls to Direct3D / OpenGL / Vulkan / Metal has finally added native Wayland support. ANGLE is used by Google Chrome and a variety of other applications as a graphics API abstraction layer.
With this merge to the ANGLE codebase, there is now official Wayland support. At long last.
NVIDIA Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering The Best Performance Ever Seen On ARM
NVIDIA's Vera data center CPU isn't ramping up until later this year but I recently had the opportunity to try out this new ARM-based CPU designed for agentic AI workloads. NVIDIA's Vera CPU with its in-house-designed Olympus CPU cores ends up packing a heavy-hitting punch with competitiveness to Intel/AMD x86_64 CPUs that I have never seen out of any other ARM or non-x86_64 processors. Continue on with these early benchmarks
AlmaLinux 10.2 Released For Latest Community-Driven RHEL 10.2 Experience
Following the recent release of the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 that brought new AI command line assistance and other package upgrade options, AlmaLinux 10.2 is now available as this RHEL-derived, community-driven downstream.
Pavona Aims To Provide A Certification-Ready, Open-Source Silicon Ecosystem
Pavona's global is to do to hardware what Linux has done for software. Pavona self-describes itself as:
"Pavona is an independent open-source silicon distribution hosted by the GlobalPlatform consortium.
The project maintains a modular library of general-purpose, tapeout-proven, certification-ready blocks and reference designs suitable for
NVIDIA 610.43.02 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements, DRM Color Pipeline API
Today's NVIDIA 610.43.02 Linux driver release brings support for several more Vulkan extensions including VK_EXT_shader_long_vector, VK_KHR_internally_synchronized_queues, and VK_NV_push_constant_bank. The NVIDIA Vulkan driver also now allows creating Vulkan logical devices from
Intel Working On pmtctl Tool For Linux In Dealing With Platform Telemetry Data
Intel's Platform Monitoring Technology (PMT) is already supported by the mainline Linux kernel while pmtctl is a new convenient tool for dealing with these telemetry metrics. Like Turbostat and various other small utilities, Intel is aiming to have pmtctl live within the Linux kernel source tree.
Btrfs Preps Huge Folios Support Ahead Of Linux 7.2
SUSE engineer Qu Wenruo has been working through huge folios support for Btrfs to support up to a 2MB folio size.
Similar to the large folios, huge folios can help Btrfs in achieving greater I/O throughput and reduced system overhead while providing for better memory management.