ARTICLES & REVIEWS NEWS ARCHIVE FORUMS PREMIUM CATEGORIES Custom Search Search Latest Linux News Steam Linux Usage For November: 0.27% AMDGPU's Scheduler Might Get Picked Up By Other DRM Drivers AMD Publishes More DC Patches, Disables System76 Will Begin Disabling Intel ME In Their Linux FreeSync By Default Laptops Intel Sends In The First Set Of Changes For Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 30 November 2017 at 04:05 PM EST. 33 Comments Linux 4.16 i915 DRM Armory Is A Very Promising 3D Game Following the recent Intel Management Engine (ME) vulnerabilities combined Engine With Full Blender Integration with some engineering work the past few months on their end, System76 will Systemd 236 Is Being Prepped For Release begin disabling ME on their laptops. This Month With Many Changes The good news is this will roll-out as an update with their system76-driver Intel Releases New Linux Media Driver For package on Ubuntu-based systems so even existing System76 customers can VA-API get their Management Engine disabled without having to think about buying a new machine. Linux 4.15, Distro Performance & System76 isn't going the Coreboot route with their laptops but simply disabling this Open-Source Radeon Excitement Ends notorious bit of the Intel hardware. At this time they aren't disabling ME in any of their November desktop systems. However, they will provide updated ME firmware for desktop customers to NVIDIA's Current Linux Driver Is Hungry For address the recent vulnerabilities. vRAM This Holiday System76 Will Begin Disabling Intel ME In Their Linux Laptops Latest Featured Articles Windows 10 WSL vs. Docker on Windows 10 vs. Bare Metal Linux Performance Windows 10 vs. Linux 4.15 + Mesa 17.4-dev More details on the System76 blog and kudos to them for being another Linux laptop vendor Radeon Gaming Performance now disabling this controversial feature. Amazon, Clear, Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, SUSE & Ubuntu Performance On The EC2 Cloud Intel OpenGL Performance Across 11 Linux Distributions The New Features Of Linux 4.15: AMDGPU 33 Comments DC, RISC-V, EPYC Benefits, VR Improvements Tweet Like 82 Share About The Author Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 10,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com. Related Hardware News Popular News Coreboot Picks Up Support For CompuLab's Unity 7 Hoping To Become An Official Flavor For Intense-PC Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Western Digital To Begin Shipping Devices Using LibreOffice 6.0 Beta Available - Huge Open- RISC-V Source Office Suite Update For 2018 HDMI 2.1 Specification Brings 4K@120Hz / Report: Ryzen "Raven Ridge" APU Not Using 8K@60Hz HBM2 Memory UPower 0.99.7 Brings Bluetooth LE Device Battery The Features To Look Forward To With Wine 3.0 Support Intel Releases Linux-Compatible Tool For Linux 4.15 Will Treat The HTC Vive VR Headset As Confirming ME Vulnerabilities "Non-Desktop" Support Phoronix Blender Has A Beautiful New Benchmark: Linux 4.10 To Linux 4.15 Kernel Benchmarks Barbershop The mission at Phoronix since 2004 has centered around enriching the Linux hardware experience. In addition to supporting our site through advertisements, you can help by subscribing to Phoronix Premium. You can also use our Amazon.com or NewEgg.com shopping links when making online purchases or contribute to Phoronix through a PayPal tip. Phoronix Media Phoronix Premium Share Legal Disclaimer | Contact | Cookie Policy Copyright © 2004 - 2017 by Phoronix Media. Phoronix Test Suite Support Phoronix Facebook All trademarks used are properties of their OpenBenchmarking.org While Having Ad-Free Browsing, Twitter respective owners. All rights reserved. Phoromatic Single-Page Article Viewing Google Plus LinuxBenchmarking.com.