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Linux Patches Posted That Would Allow Boot-Time Disabling Of x86 32-bit Processes

Phoronix - Wed, 06/07/2023 - 22:00
SUSE engineer Nikolay Borisov sent out a set of patches today for "ia32_disabled" that would allow disabling of support for x86 32-bit processes from running on x86_64 Linux systems. As a first step this would be a boot-time option when "ia32_disabled" is set...

openSUSE Leap 15.5 Released With KDE Plasma 5.27, Updated Mesa & More

Phoronix - Wed, 06/07/2023 - 21:00
For those using openSUSE Leap as the rock-solid, time-tested alternative to the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed, today marks the availability of openSUSE Leap 15.5 as another incremental upgrade to the Leap 15 series...

Linux 6.5 VirtIO GPU DRM Driver Adding Sync Object uAPI For Vulkan

Phoronix - Wed, 06/07/2023 - 18:35
Queued via drm-misc-next and now on its way to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle is support in the VirtIO GPU DRM driver for the synchronization object user-space API. This is important for Vulkan and is working with the Venus/Virgl driver context as well as Intel/AMDGPU/Freedreno native contexts too...

DeepSparse 1.5 Released For Faster AI Inference On CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 06/07/2023 - 18:10
Neural Magic's DeepSparse AI inference runtime continues to pursue "GPU-class performance on CPUs" and with the new DeepSparse 1.5 release is delivering even faster performance for CPU inference...

OpenZFS 2.1.12 Released With Linux 6.3 Compatibility

Phoronix - Wed, 06/07/2023 - 17:48
OpenZFS 2.1.12 is now available as the latest version of this out-of-tree ZFS file-system kernel driver that works on Linux now with the latest 6.3 kernel stable series all the way back to the v3.10 kernel. Plus OpenZFS 2.1.12 also works on FreeBSD 12.2 and newer...

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