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In addition to working on the likes of the Milk-V Duo and high-end Pioneer board, Milk-V has now announced the "Oasis" as a forthcoming mini-ITX RISC-V board that will feature 16 cores and up to 64GB of LPDDR5 system memory...

Milk-V Oasis Sounds Like An Interesting RISC-V Board With 16 ...  Phoronix

AMD driver engineer Saroj Kumar has contributed Perfetto integration for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver as the latest means of allowing tracing/profiling for this open-source OpenGL driver...

RadeonSI Driver Integrates Perfetto Support  Phoronix

Zlib-ng 2.1.4 was released this week as the newest version of this Zlib data compression library intended for "next generation" uses. Zlib-ng continues having a lower barrier for new contributions and optimizations than the upstream Zlib repository itself to allow for it to more rapidly evolve on today's systems...

Zlib-ng 2.1.4 Brings LoongArch Port, New RISC-V & ARM ...  Phoronix

Linux Foundation's 'Super-Long-Term Stable Kernel Program ...  Slashdot

How To Install LM Studio on Linux? | by Rens Wunnink | Oct, 2023  Medium

Libreboot 20231021 Brings Some Additional Laptops, Desktops ...  Phoronix

Libreboot 20231021 was published for testing today as the newest Coreboot downstream focused on providing only fully free software support for system firmware with more stringent open-source requirements than Coreboot itself...

Unless Open Source Evolves, HashiCorp CEO Predicts OSS-Free ...  Slashdot

How to Show Mac Games Only on Steam  OSXDaily

An Intel engineer on Friday posted a set of Linux kernel patches that are working to refine the Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) mitigation handling for the Linux kernel to better protect some kernel data and also some very subtle performance benefits...

Intel Optimizing Its MDS Mitigation Handling To Avoid Possible Kernel Data Leaking  Phoronix

TuxClocker 1.2 Released With AMD GPU Thermal Monitoring, CPU ...  Phoronix

Ever since the release of TuxClocker 1.0 last month, this open-source community software project for enhancing overclocking controls under Linux has been living up to the "release early, release often" mantra. Out today is TuxClocker 1.2...

AMD Starts to Roll Out RDNA 3.5 Refresh “GFX1150” GPU Support In Linux 6.7  Wccftech

FreeBSD 14.0 is preparing for release in early November as a big update to this leading BSD operating system. It's going to be a great release and Friday's FreeBSD 14.0-RC2 milestone landed some last minute updates...

Back in September GNOME developer Christian Hergert noted how Linux terminal emulators have the potential of being much faster based on his experiments. While at the time he didn't plan to pursue it further, in the weeks since he's been making enhancements to GNOME's VTE code that is used by GNOME Console and other apps...

More Optimizations Made For Making GNOME/VTE Terminals Go ...  Phoronix