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LFCS #4: How to Partition Storage Devices in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 08/23/2023 - 13:55
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The Linux Foundation launched the LFCS certification (Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin), a shiny chance for system administrators to show, through a performance-based exam, that they

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QEMU 8.1 Released With New PipeWire Audio Backend, Many CPU Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 08/23/2023 - 07:50
QEMU 8.1 is now available as the latest feature update to this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

Asahi Linux's Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant

Phoronix - Wed, 08/23/2023 - 01:45
The AGX Gallium3D driver developed by the Asahi Linux crew for providing reverse-engineered OpenGL / GLES support on Apple Silicon M1/M2 hardware is now formally compliant with OpenGL ES 3.1...

Benchmarking Mercury As The "Fastest Firefox Fork" With AVX, AES, LTO + PGO

Phoronix - Tue, 08/22/2023 - 23:55
Following the news last week of Firefox outperforming Chrome in SunSpider, a Phoronix reader pointed out Mercury that is an open-source web browser claiming to be the "fastest Firefox fork" and making use of Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and AES instructions along with compiler features like Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) and Profile-Guided Optimizations (PGO). The project advertises as being 8-20% faster than upstream Firefox. Curious I ran a couple benchmarks on my end of this Firefox fork.

Linux Microcode Loading For x86 32-bit CPUs Being Cleaned Up & Corrected

Phoronix - Tue, 08/22/2023 - 21:10
Continuing to support x86 32-bit processors with the mainline Linux kernel continues to be a maintenance burden and uncovering ugly bits of code that are seldom touched. The latest work is on fixing up the 32-bit early microcode loading code so that it's more robust and actually correct...

NVIDIA 535.104.05 Fixes An Issue Using The Open Kernel Driver With SLI

Phoronix - Tue, 08/22/2023 - 20:54
While we are waiting on NVIDIA to roll out a beta of their next post-R535 Linux driver release stream, available today is the NVIDIA 535.104.05 Linux driver as their latest in this production driver branch...

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