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NVIDIA 545 Linux Driver To Support Vulkan Apps With PRIME On Wayland

Phoronix - Fri, 06/09/2023 - 18:12
It's still some ways away with the NVIDIA 535 driver series currently in beta but with the NVIDIA 545 Linux driver series to succeed that there will finally be support for Vulkan games/apps running via PRIME for GPU offloading under Wayland...

Last Call For The Phoronix 19th Birthday Premium Sale

Phoronix - Fri, 06/09/2023 - 18:00
This is just a friendly reminder that if you wanted to participate in this week's Phoronix Premium special with Phoronix.com having turned 19 this week, that special sale ends this weekend...

Cisco Posts Rust-Written PuzzleFS File-System Driver For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 06/09/2023 - 17:50
PuzzleFS is a next-generation container file-system for Linux with fast image building, direct-mount support, and other container-optimized features being worked on by Cisco engineers. And it's written in Rust...

How to Generate, Encrypt and Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 06/09/2023 - 14:51
The post How to Generate, Encrypt and Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this article, we will share some interesting command-line tools to generate random passwords and also how to encrypt and decrypt passwords with or without

The post How to Generate, Encrypt and Decrypt Random Passwords in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

JDK 21 Forked From Mainline For What Will Be The Next Java LTS Release

Phoronix - Fri, 06/09/2023 - 04:25
Today marks the ramp-down phase one point for JDK 21 where the OpenJDK code is forked from mainline for this de facto Java 21 implementation. Making OpenJDK 21 all the more exciting is this is going to be one of Oracle's bi-annual Long-Term Support (LTS) releases...

Intel Xeon Ice Lake vs. AMD EPYC Milan Server Performance, Efficiency & Value In 2023

Phoronix - Fri, 06/09/2023 - 01:30
While AMD 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" and Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors launched a few months ago, for those not yet able to obtain the new processors/platforms, prefer waiting for DDR5 memory prices to recede further, don't necessarily need the latest bells and whistles found with these new server processors, or just looking to maximize value, 3rd Gen AMD EPYC Milan and Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors are readily available and still seeing plenty of new deployments in data centers throughout the world. In this article is a fresh look at the AMD Milan vs. Intel Ice Lake server performance, power efficiency, and performance-per-dollar across a range of processors.

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