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Linux 6.18 Hardened Against Specially-Crafted EROFS Images Leading To System Crashes The EROFS read-only file-system continues enjoying nice uptick in use from embedded devices to containers. Merged today for Linux 6.18 is some new hardening to the EROFS driver where specially-crafted file-system images could lead to system crashes or infinite loops... |
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Sovereign Tech Agency Making 2026 Investments In systemd, PHP, Servo & More Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (nee Sovereign Tech Fund) is out with their latest newsletter where they outlined some new investments in various key open-source projects... |
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LLVM Lands Some Long Overdue Tuning Optimizations For AMD Zen 4 Merged today to the LLVM/Clang compiler codebase are some long overdue adjustments to the AMD Zen 4 "znver4" CPU model for more accurately assessing various latency timings and micro-ops. These values were initially copied over from the Zen 3 (znver3) target but never adjusted properly for Zen 4 until now when an independent contributor took to sorting it out... |
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Linux 6.18 Adding AWCC Profile Support For The Dell G15 5530 For those that happen to have the Dell G15 5530 laptop or considering this Intel Core i7 13650HX + NVIDIA GeForce RTX high-end laptop, the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is set to have AWCC platform profile support for this model as a nice enhancement. In turn this patch should also be back-ported to future stable Linux kernel point releases... |
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Intel Xe3P_LPD Display Support For Linux Being Built Out Ahead Of Nova Lake Earlier this month Intel Linux software engineers began posting patches for enabling Xe3P kernel graphics driver support with initial usage by Nova Lake processors and later the expected Celestial discrete GPUs. That initial Xe3P iGPU support is going into Linux 6.19 but expect more feature additions and optimizations in follow-on kernel cycles in 2026. Similarly the patches have now begun coming out for enabling the display engine capabilities for "Xe3P_LPD" for actually being able to drive displays (monitors) with Xe3P on Nova Lake... |
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Intel Nova Lake Support Merged For GCC 16 Compiler Following last week LLVM/Clang 22 adding Intel Nova Lake with "-march=novalake" support, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has now received similar treatment for the promising next-generation desktop processors... |
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Linux 6.19 To Support Sensor Monitoring On The ASUS ROG STRIX X870E-H GAMING WIFI7 For those that have been considering the ASUS ROG STRIX X870E-H GAMING WIFI7 motherboard for a high-end AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop, sensor monitoring support will soon be working under Linux... |
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OpenBSD 7.8 Released With Raspberry Pi 5 Support, AMD SEV Enablement Theo de Raadt released OpenBSD 7.8 today as the newest feature release to this popular BSD operating system... |
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AlmaLinux 10.1 Beta Released For Popular RHEL 10 Community Distribution Earlier today the AlmaLinux project announced their plans for supporting the Btrfs file-system contrary to the stance by Red Hat with upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They have capped off the day now by releasing the AlmaLinux 10.1 beta complete with this new Btrfs support... |
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Linux 6.19 To Enable Networking For The EIC7700 SoC Powering The SiFive Premier P550 Upstreamed for the current Linux 6.18 cycle was finally having mainline support for the ESWIN EIC770 SoC with its four SiFive P550 cores plus having the DeviceTree support for the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board using that SoC. Sadly not making it though for Linux 6.18 was the Ethernet controller support for the EIC7700 SoC but that is now destined to arrive in Linux 6.19... |
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AlmaLinux 10.1 Will Support The Btrfs File-System It's been nearly a decade since Red Hat notably deprecated Btrfs back in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 after it being a tech preview in earlier versions of RHEL. While upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 remains on XFS and supporting the likes of Stratis Storage with LVM, AlmaLinux today announced that their AlmaLinux 10.1 release will support Btrfs... |
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Valkey 9.0 Released With Ability To Achieve One Billion Requests / Second Valkey as the popular, Linux Foundation backed fork of the Redis key-value database is out today with its big v9.0 release... |
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Intel Nova Lake To Feature 6th Gen NPU Following the recent Xe3P graphics enablement for Nova Lake as well as Nova Lake compiler target enablement and other early hardware enablement for Intel's Nova Lake processors, today has brought initial enablement for Nova Lake's NPU... |
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Revisiting The SNC3 vs. HEX Mode Performance With Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids Last year following the launch of the Intel Xeon 6900P Granite Rapids processors I ran some benchmarks looking at the SNC3 vs. HEX clustering mode performance. With having an Intel Xeon 6980P server back up and running on a Giga Computing R284-A92-AAL server after my AvenueCity reference server failed nearly one year ago, I revisited the SNC3 vs. HEX clustering performance for those curious how it's looking on a modern software stack and with new/updated benchmarks. |
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TARmageddon Strikes: High Profile Security Vulnerability In Popular Rust Library Going public today is CVE-2025-62518, or better known by the name given by the security researchers involved: TARmageddon. The TARmageddon vulnerability affects the popular async-tar Rust library and its various forks like tokio-tar. In turn TARmageddon impacts the uv Python package manager and other users of this library... |