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FreeBSD 14.0 Released: Supports Up To 1,024 CPU Cores, OpenZFS 2.2 & Adds Fwget

Phoronix - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 05:51
FreeBSD 14 has been released as stable today as the newest major release of this leading open-source BSD operating system...

Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver Is Now Conformant For Vulkan 1.0

Phoronix - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 04:30
Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver atop the Nouveau DRM kernel driver is now officially Vulkan 1.0 conformant for passing all the necessary Vulkan 1.0 conformance test suite cases. Though don't get your hopes too high for this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver as the performance is still overall slow and the driver stack remains a work-in-progress, but at least it's a step in the right direction...

Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC On By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 11/21/2023 - 01:28
Ahead of the official release announcement due out tomorrow, the Mozilla Firefox 120.0 release binaries are now available...

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