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AMD Posts New Linux Audio Driver Code For Raphael
AMD today posted new open-source Linux driver code for enabling the audio co-processor (ACP) with the upcoming Raphael platform with the Ryzen 7000 series processors...
RADV Continues Getting Ready For Vulkan Mesh Shader Support
Merged yesterday into RADV for Mesa 22.2 is implementing task/mesh shader draw support...
RADV Continues Getting Ready For Vulkan Mesh Shader Support
Merged yesterday into RADV for Mesa 22.2 is implementing task/mesh shader draw support...
SUSE's D-Installer Taking Shape As New Web-Based Linux Distro Installer
In addition to Red Hat being busy working on their new web-based Anaconda installer for future Fedora and RHEL releases, SUSE engineers have also been pursuing their own web-based installer built atop YaST. D-Installer 0.4 was released recently as the latest improvements on that front...
SUSE's D-Installer Taking Shape As New Web-Based Linux Distro Installer
In addition to Red Hat being busy working on their new web-based Anaconda installer for future Fedora and RHEL releases, SUSE engineers have also been pursuing their own web-based installer built atop YaST. D-Installer 0.4 was released recently as the latest improvements on that front...
NVIDIA 515.49.10 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Pipeline Robustness
NVIDIA released new Vulkan beta driver builds last night for Linux and Windows users...
NVIDIA 515.49.10 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Pipeline Robustness
NVIDIA released new Vulkan beta driver builds last night for Linux and Windows users...
Dell's New XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition Now Certified For Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Canonical and Dell are jointly announcing that the new Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition laptop has been officially certified for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS...
Dell's New XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition Now Certified For Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Canonical and Dell are jointly announcing that the new Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition laptop has been officially certified for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS...
Linux Lands Fix For A Trivial Lockdown Bypass Bug
Merged this afternoon to the mainline Linux 5.19 Git kernel and set for back-porting is a fix for a new security bug. Oracle made public CVE-2022-21505 on Tuesday as a trivial bypass to the Linux kernel's lockdown mode...
Linux Lands Fix For A Trivial Lockdown Bypass Bug
Merged this afternoon to the mainline Linux 5.19 Git kernel and set for back-porting is a fix for a new security bug. Oracle made public CVE-2022-21505 on Tuesday as a trivial bypass to the Linux kernel's lockdown mode...
Google Engineers Lift The Lid On Carbon - A Hopeful Successor To C++
In addition to Dart, Golang, and being involved with other programming language initiatives over the years, their latest effort that was made public on Tuesday is Carbon. The Carbon programming language hopes to be the gradual successor to C++ and makes for an easy transition path moving forward...
Google Engineers Lift The Lid On Carbon - A Hopeful Successor To C++
In addition to Dart, Golang, and being involved with other programming language initiatives over the years, their latest effort that was made public on Tuesday is Carbon. The Carbon programming language hopes to be the gradual successor to C++ and makes for an easy transition path moving forward...
Epic Games Joins The Open 3D Foundation
Epic Games is the latest company joining the Open 3D Foundation as a premier member alongside Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, and others...
Epic Games Joins The Open 3D Foundation
Epic Games is the latest company joining the Open 3D Foundation as a premier member alongside Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, and others...
AMD Zen 1 Linux Performance Hit From Retbleed, Accumulated CPU Mitigation Impact
Last week I posted my initial benchmarks for the Linux impact of mitigating Retbleed as the newest CPU speculative execution vulnerability. As noted in the prior Retbleed articles, on the AMD side it's Zen 1/1+/2 processors affected as well as older Bulldozer CPUs. That earlier article included Zen 2 benchmarks while in this article are Zen 1 tests given its situation is slightly different.
AMD Zen 1 Linux Performance Hit From Retbleed, Accumulated CPU Mitigation Impact
Last week I posted my initial benchmarks for the Linux impact of mitigating Retbleed as the newest CPU speculative execution vulnerability. As noted in the prior Retbleed articles, on the AMD side it's Zen 1/1+/2 processors affected as well as older Bulldozer CPUs. That earlier article included Zen 2 benchmarks while in this article are Zen 1 tests given its situation is slightly different.
IO_uring Zerocopy Send Is Ready For Linux 5.20 Networking
The long in development work around IO_uring zero-copy send for the Linux kernel's networking subsystem is now ready for mainline...
IO_uring Zerocopy Send Is Ready For Linux 5.20 Networking
The long in development work around IO_uring zero-copy send for the Linux kernel's networking subsystem is now ready for mainline...
GNOME 43 Alpha Released With Browser Improvements, More GTK 4 Porting
Released this morning was the alpha of the GNOME 43 desktop...