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AMD Radeon 680M Graphics Are A Great Upgrade With RDNA2, Excellent On Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 07/25/2022 - 23:15
Last week when posting my initial Linux benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U performance (and also looking at the AMD Rembrandt Windows vs. Linux speed), there were two main areas to get excited about with these AMD Zen 3+ SoCs: nice power efficiency improvements across many real-world workloads and the graphics upgrade with the integrated Radeon 680M. In this article are more tests of the Radoen 680M graphics looking at the integrated graphics speed-up with RDNA2 finally replacing Vega as a big upgrade and also how this compares to the Intel Alder Lake P Xe Graphics performance for Linux laptops.

ByteDance Working To Make It Faster Kexec Booting The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 07/25/2022 - 18:40
ByteDance as the Chinese company behind TikTok has been working on a number of Linux kernel optimizations the past few years and their most recent work is for faster Kexec rebooting of the kernel. With their massive fleet of servers powering TikTok and other apps, they will do whatever they can to shave milliseconds off the boot/reboot time of their servers and that is what most of their Linux optimizations have been about -- including this newest patch series for faster Kexec reboots...

Samsung Post Linux Patches For Trinity NPU Accelerator Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 07/25/2022 - 18:20
Samsung has posted a set of Linux kernel patches for enabling their Trinity neural processing unit (NPU) hardware as accelerators found within some of their embedded systems. Samsung Trinity NPUs have been in use since 2018 and their newer Trinity "TRIV2" accelerator is found within the latest Samsung TVs for AI purposes. Samsung hopes to upstream this new Linux driver simply named "trinity" into the mainline kernel...

MediaTek Partners With Intel Foundry Services For Some Of Its Future Chips

Phoronix - Mon, 07/25/2022 - 17:56
Intel and MediaTek have just announced a strategic partnership where some future chips for MediaTek will be manufactured by Intel Foundry Services (IFS)...

Linux VKMS Driver Patches Making It Easier To Build Your Own Virtual Graphics Devices

Phoronix - Mon, 07/25/2022 - 17:41
The VKMS driver within the Linux kernel allows for virtual kernel mode-setting as a software-only KMS/DRM driver that can be used for virtual testing purposes and other uses around headless systems. New patches out of Google are working on ConfigFS support for this virtual display driver and from there making it easy to build out your own virtual graphics device configuration with VKMS...

RISC-V Default Linux Kernel Configuration Tweaked So It's Easier Running Docker, Snaps

Phoronix - Mon, 07/25/2022 - 17:20
With the upcoming Linux 5.20 cycle the RISC-V CPU architecture's default kernel configuration "defconfig" is being tweaked so it's capable of running Docker out-of-the-box...

How to Setup Two-Factor Authentication For SSH In Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 07/25/2022 - 16:00
The post How to Setup Two-Factor Authentication For SSH In Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

By default, SSH already uses secure data communication between remote machines, but if you want to add some extra security layer to your SSH connections, you can add a Google Authenticator (two-factor authentication) module

The post How to Setup Two-Factor Authentication For SSH In Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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