Glibc Dynamic Loader Hit By A Nasty Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Comes Up With A Way For Vulkan Sparse Support On Their Existing Linux Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Linux Will Finally Indicate Via /proc/cpuinfo If AMD SVM Virtualization Is Disabled (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Ryzen Powered Framework Laptop Linux Testing Held Up By BIOS Issue (www.phoronix.com)
X.Org Hit By New Security Vulnerabilities - Two Date Back To 1988 With X11R2 (www.phoronix.com)
Made public today was CVE-2023-43785 as an out-of-bounds memory access within the libX11 code that has been around since 1996. A second libX11 flaw is stack exhaustion from infinite recursion within the PutSubImage() function of libX11… This vulnerability has been around since X11R2 in February of 1988....
Tweaking SteamOS For Better Steam Deck Performance (www.phoronix.com)
Direct link to the Medium post being benchmarked: medium.com/…/here-are-some-possibly-useful-tweaks…
Canonical's Snap Store Hit By Malicious Apps (www.phoronix.com)
Sound Open Firmware 2.7 Released With AMD Van Gogh Support (www.phoronix.com)
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Begins Working On Pipeline Caching (www.phoronix.com)
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Begins Working On Pipeline Caching (www.phoronix.com)
Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.10 Performance On The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 (AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U) (www.phoronix.com)
Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O (www.phoronix.com)
Four years after the Raspberry Pi 4 shipped, today the Raspberry Pi 5 is launching with a much improved SoC leading to significant performance gains....
Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.10 Performance On ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 (AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U) (www.phoronix.com)
Even Ubuntu - one of the slowest Linux distributions wipes the floor with windows. Even without huge optimizations that are present in the newest kernels and with the worst CPU governor. Wonder if slower GPU performance is due to mentioned governor?
sdl12-compat 1.2.68 Allows More Games To Run On The Modern Linux Desktop (www.phoronix.com)
A new version of the sdl12-compat library is now available, which serves as an SDL2 portability layer for allowing old SDL 1.2.x games and applications work on modern SDL2 systems.
Linux 6.7 Adding New Feature To Btrfs For The Steam Deck (www.phoronix.com)
PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.7 Adding New Feature To Btrfs For The Steam Deck (www.phoronix.com)
Firefox 118 Available With Performance Improvements, Automated Translations (www.phoronix.com)
PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year (www.phoronix.com)
KDE Making It Easier To Find Or Offer "Sponsored Work" (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa 23.2 Will Try To Release This Week (www.phoronix.com)
Dynamic Triple Buffering Patch Updated For GNOME 45 (www.phoronix.com)
Arch Linux Installer Update Allows More Control Over Parallel Downloads, Ly (www.phoronix.com)
Archinstall 2.6.1 key features include allowing a custom number of parallel downloads to be specified, the option to use Ly, an ncurses-like display manager, the option to use Slick-Greeter with LightDM, and adding Kitty/Dolphin/Wofi to Hyprland....
Wayland Color Management Protocol Posted For Weston (www.phoronix.com)
The Wayland Color Management protocol has been years in the making and is needed for a client to specify the color space and HDR metadata of a surface. This color management protocol is ultimately needed for getting high dynamic range (HDR) support working out well within Wayland environments. This week an initial merge request...
Wayland Color Management Protocol Posted For Weston (www.phoronix.com)
The Wayland Color Management protocol has been years in the making and is needed for a client to specify the color space and HDR metadata of a surface. This color management protocol is ultimately needed for getting high dynamic range (HDR) support working out well within Wayland environments. This week an initial merge request...