Linux 5.14 will completely remove the RAW driver
The RAW driver (RAW_DRIVER) on the Linux system is mainly used to provide direct I/O access to block devices. As early as the mid-2000s, the RAW driver was obsolete, and for a long time,...
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AMD is extending SmartShift technology to Linux systems
SmartShift technology is a new feature released by AMD last year. If the laptop is equipped with AMD’s CPU and discrete graphics card, it will respond quickly to the different workloads of the two,...
Nvidia and Valve collaborate to bring DLSS to Linux
NVIDIA announced on Computex 2021 that it will cooperate with Valve to introduce DLSS technology to the Linux operating system through Steam Proton. For those gamers who use Linux systems, NVIDIA graphics cards can...
Ubuntu 21.10 will be transitioning PHP to 8.0 over the coming weeks
According to the mailing list, Ubuntu 21.10 will transition from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.0. Although PHP 8.0 was released at the end of last year, it was not immediately added to Ubuntu 21.04...
Linux 5.10 LTS will continue to be maintained until the end of 2026
As the latest long-term support version, Linux 5.10 LTS was only planned to be maintained until the end of 2022 when it was first launched. However, after enough companies intervened to improve and test,...
Red Hat is hiring more LLVM engineers
In addition to continuing to invest heavily in GCC and the GNU toolchain, Red Hat is also increasing the recruitment of LLVM engineers. Prior to this, Red Hat has hired a well-known long-term LLVM...
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS reached EOL, users can upgrade to ESM version to continue to receive security updates
The Ubuntu 16.04 LTS version released in 2016 has reached the end of life. The developer Canonical recommends that all users who are still using this version migrate to the supported LTS version as...
The sound updates for Linux 5.13 have been merged into the mainline
The audio-related update for Linux 5.13 has been released and has been merged into the mainline. This year, PipeWire continues to gain attention in improving the sound of the Linux userspace, and the kernel’s...
Linux Mint 18.x reached the end of life
Clem Lefebvre, the head of the Linux Mint project, announced that the Linux Mint 18 series (18, 18.1, 18.2, and 18.3) has been officially reached EOL and will not receive any updates and technical...
Linux 5.13 adds initial support for Apple M1
The Linux 5.13 kernel adds preliminary support for Apple M1 SoC and Apple devices in 2020 (Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air). On the first day of the Linux 5.13 merger window, the six...
Sony will bring Linux a solution to insufficient device memory
Sony engineer Peter Enderborg recently proposed a new Watchdog software in an email from LKML. The full name of Watchdog is Watchdog Timer, also known as COP (Computer Operating Properly) timer, which is generally...
University of Minnesota researchers issue an open letter of apology to the Linux kernel community
After deliberately introducing vulnerabilities, the entire university was banned from participating in the development of the Linux kernel; the relevant researchers at the University of Minnesota — Assistant Professor Kangjie Lu and Ph.D. students...
Fedora 35 may use LLVM Clang to build more software
Now Fedora Linux mainly uses GCC as the default system compiler, unless there is a special situation that upstream projects only support LLVM/Clang. However, developers who package software on Fedora can decide for themselves...
Ubuntu 21.04 releases: Wayland has been used by default
Recently, Canonical officially released Ubuntu 21.04, which includes native Microsoft Active Directory integration, SDK for Flutter application development, and the default enabling Wayland to replace the 36-year-old X Window System. Although Ubuntu 21.04 is...
University was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel for deliberately inserting vulnerabilities
The maintainer of the Linux kernel project Greg Kroah-Hartman decided to prohibit the University of Minnesota (UMN) from contributing to the open-source Linux project. The reason is that researchers at the University of Minnesota...
Linus revealed that Linux Kernel 5.14 maybe support Rust
According to the ITWire report, in an interview with Linus Torvalds, regarding the Linux kernel’s support for Rust, Linus responded that the Linux kernel does not yet support Rust and added that “getting to...
