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9-Way AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Benchmarks On Linux 6.5 / Ubuntu 23.10

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 20:32
For those currently weighing between the (currently) nine different AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors for Linux use, here are fresh benchmarks of the Zen 4 desktop CPU line-up while testing with Ubuntu 23.10 and the Linux 6.5 kernel...

OpenSSL 3.2 Reaches Beta With Client-Side QUIC, Zstd & Brotli Certificate Compression

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 20:11
OpenSSL 3.2 is now available in beta form as the newest forthcoming feature update to this widely-used cryptographic library...

RADV Hooks Up Image Compression Control To Workaround Game Bugs

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 18:43
Samuel Pitoiset on Valve's Linux graphics driver team has wired up VK_EXT_image_compression_control support to the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) in order to workaround same game bugs being encountered with Steam Play / VKD3D-Proton...

Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2023Q3 Released For Latest VA-API & QSV Code

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 18:22
Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel is where the company continues to stage their latest FFmpeg multimedia library patches prior to upstreaming. FFmpeg Cartwheel ends up containing all the latest and greatest code for leveraging VA-API and Quick Sync Video (QSV) from Intel integrated graphics through their latest DG2/Alchemist class discrete graphics...

Fedora 39 Delayed To At Least 7 November

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 12:00
While Fedora 39 was aiming for an ideal "early final" release on 18 October, that didn't happen, it was delayed, and then delayed again. Now the earliest Fedora 39 will possibly shift is 7 November...

Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" Opens For Development

Phoronix - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 06:28
The Ubuntu 24.04 codename has been revealed as "Noble Numbat" while kicking off this next development cycle that is all the more exciting due to being the next long-term support (LTS) release...

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