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Solus 4.6 Released With Continued Merged Usr Migration, Experimental Software Centers

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 19:02
Solus 4.6 is out as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution that is known for its default Budgie desktop while also shipping with other desktop options...

Intel oneDNN 3.6 Improves Performance For Granite Rapids, Initial Xe2 Optimizations

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 18:46
Intel engineers have released the oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library "oneDNN" version 3.6 release that serves as the building blocks for deep learning software like ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, Apache MXNet, Apache SIGNA, and optionally by PyTorch and TensorFlow with Intel's extensions...

Unvanquished Working On OpenGL 4.6 Renderer Support

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 18:38
It's been a while since we have seen anything new to report on Unvanquished as one of the few remaining and promising open-source game projects. The Unvanquished FPS/RTS game has been in development for 12 years now and built atop the Daemon engine that is now a very distant fork from the id Tech 3 engine. The latest now is that Unvanquished has been pushing forward OpenGL 4.6 rendering support...

ARM64 SMT Control Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 18:25
While ARM-based SoCs with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) aren't too common, there do exist some such as select models of the Huawei Kunpeng server SoC with SMT or there HiSilicon Kirin 9000S. As such Huawei/HiSilicon engineers have been working to expose SMT controls on ARM64 for the Linux kernel...

LibreSSL 4.0 Released With EmScripten Support, Fixes Windows Support Past Y2038

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 18:06
The OpenBSD project has released LibreSSL 4.0 as the newest version of this open-source TLS implementation that was forked from OpenSSL a decade ago...

36 Useful Apache ‘.htaccess’ Tricks for Security and Performance

Tecmint - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 14:00
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The .htaccess file is a powerful configuration file used on Apache-based web servers to manage and modify settings at the

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