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Linux Now Mitigating Hygon CPUs For Inception/SRSO Vulnerability

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 10:37

Disclosed back in August was the Inception vulnerability affecting all Zen processors. It took until today though for the mainline Linux kernel to mitigate Hygon processors for this vulnerability for those Zen 1 CPUs formed from the AMD-Chinese joint venture...

Silicon Motion X.Org Driver Sees First Release In Six Years

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Yesterday - 17:40

The xf86-video-siliconmotion X.Org driver has seen its first new release in six years for supporting the Silicon Motion Lynx and Cougar chipsets found in vintage laptops...

Raspberry Pi 5, Steam Deck & New AMD CPUs Dominated Q3

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Yesterday - 17:00

During the third quarter on Phoronix were 689 original Linux/open-source news articles and another 50 Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles. Here's a look back at what excited Linux enthusiasts this quarter...

Canonical's Snap Store Hit By Malicious Apps

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Yesterday - 16:35

Stemming from reports of several fake crypto apps appearing in Canonical's Snap Store that aimed to steal user funds, temporary restrictions have been put in place while Canonical investigates the security matter...

Milk-V Duo Linux Kernel Patches Submitted For This $9 RISC-V Board

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Yesterday - 13:20

Patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list in an effort to mainline support for the Milk-V Duo RISC-V development platform with the basic board retailing for $9...

Wine-Staging 8.17 Released With Fix For Eight Year Old Bug Report

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Yesterday - 12:25

Building off yesterday's Wine 8.17 release, Wine-Staging 8.17 is now available that consists of 494 extra patches atop the upstream Wine code-base...

wlroots Merges Wayland Tearing Control Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Yesterday - 10:31

The wlroots Wayland compositor library used by Sway and other Wayland compositors to help with the heavy lifting has merged support for the tearing control protocol...

KDE Plasma 6.0 Ends September With Many New Features & Enhancements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Yesterday - 10:12

Plasma 6 development is ending September on a high note with a number of new features and enhancements to this desktop now merged...

Wine 8.17 Released With VKD3D 1.9 Upgrade, Initial Window Management For Wayland Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 2 days ago - 20:48

Wine 8.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software that allows Windows games and applications to run on Linux as well as serving as the basis for Valve's Proton that powers Steam Play...