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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.
Linux 6.16 Will Be Able To Exit User Mode Faster: 2~11% Improvement

1 week ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

While the "core/entry" changes for the Linux kernel merge window aren't typically too exciting to write about, there is a new optimization for all CPU architectures worth mentioning for the Linux 6.16 cycle. The core/entry pull request was sent out earlier this week and already merged to mainline. For RISC-V and LoongArch it does move some code from Assembly to C and additionally delivering a nice speed boost for ret_from_fork() on RISC-V.
AVX-512 Performance + Power Efficiency Shines With AMD Strix Halo

1 week ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

Several weeks into testing the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 flagship "Strix Halo" SoC within the HP ZBook Ultra G1a, I continue to be very impressed with its performance capabilities for a wide range of workloads.
Intel Wildcat Lake Audio Support Merged For Linux 6.16

1 week ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

All of the sound/audio driver changes have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel that include new AMD and Intel hardware support among other new audio hardware as well as various other improvements. Sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai with SUSE submitted all of the feature changes this week for Linux 6.16 and they have already been merged. Notable this cycle with the HD Audio driver code is initial support for the upcoming Intel Wildcat Lake.
Intel Releases Updated Battlemage Driver Preview Support For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

1 week ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

While there is nice out-of-the-box support for the new Intel Arc "Battlemage" graphics cards on the new Ubuntu 25.04 release, if you prefer running the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release there isn't complete support until the next hardware enablement "HWE" update. But Intel in cooperation with Canonical has now published a new graphics driver preview stack for enabling better Intel Arc B-Series support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users.
Microsoft's Azure Linux Preps For NVIDIA GB200 Servers

1 week ago | phoronix.com | Michael Larabel

Microsoft on Tuesday released a new version of Azure Linux, their in-house Linux distribution that is used for a variety of purposes from the Azure cloud to powering other Microsoft services. Azure Linux 3.0.20250521 is the latest version of Microsoft's in-house Linux operating system. Azure Linux 3.0.20250521 brings a number of fixes and as usual a wide variety of package updates to address different security issues.