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Michael Larabel

Illinois

Founder at Phoronix

Founder of @Phoronix. Lead developer of Phoronix Test Suite, @OpenBenchmark, @Anzwix, Reside@HOME, @Phoromatic, PHXCMS.

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  • VirtualBox 7.2 Beta Brings Windows 11 Arm Support, Source Code On GitHub

    1 week ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

    Oracle engineers have released the first public beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization software release for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris systems. Notable with Oracle VirtualBox 7.2 Beta 1 is adding Windows 11 on Arm support both for Arm hosts and then also making VirtualBox VM Guest Additions support now available for Windows 11 Arm. The VirtualBox unified Windows installer package has Arm virtualization support built-in.

  • Linux 6.16 GPU Driver Changes Land: NVIDIA Blackwell, Asahi UAPI, Intel Xe Fan Speeds

    1 week ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

    The hearty set of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel. Most notable is preliminary NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support atop the mainline kernel with an open-source driver but there are also big ticket items added for the AMD Radeon/Instinct and Intel graphics drivers too as well as the other smaller drivers.

  • Git 2.50-rc0 Brings New Improvements

    1 week ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

    The initial release candidate of Git 2.50 is now available for this widely-used, distributed version control system. Some of the changes that have been baking for Git 2.50 include: - Incrementally updating multi-pack index files. - A new userdiff driver for .INI format configuration files. - The Git help "--build-options" will now report the SHA1 and SHA256 back-ends used in the build. - Git send-email has been updated to work better with the Microsoft Outlook SMTP server.

  • Big Linux Patch Series Shakes Up The Scheduler Code For Anyone With Only One CPU Core

    1 week ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

    For anyone still happening to have only one CPU core in their system and running a uni-processor "UP" kernel build without any simultaneous multi-processing (SMP) support enabled, a big patch series posted today for the Linux kernel may affect you. Even embedded systems and years-old Intel Celeron processors selling for ~$20 retail these days offer at least two physical CPU cores.

  • Mesa 25.0.7 Delivers A Last Batch Of Fixes To End The Series

    1 week ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

    Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.0.7 as the newest bi-weekly point release to the Mesa 25.0 series that is also the end of the road for that Q1'2025 release branch. Mesa 25.0.7 is the last planned point release for Mesa 25.0 with the Mesa 25.1 series now out as the latest stable series for these open-source GPU drivers.

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