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x86 Straight Line Speculation Mitigation Being Back-Ported To GCC 11

Phoronix - Tue, 02/01/2022 - 07:39
There sure has been a lot of x86 straight-line speculation happenings in recent months with the compiler-based mitigation being merged for GCC 12 and then beginning with Linux 5.17 the kernel can make use of that new knob for fending off this potential vulnerability. Now the compiler support is even being back-ported to GCC 11...

Redis 7.0 Is Near With "Significant Performance Optimizations"

Phoronix - Tue, 02/01/2022 - 03:16
The first release candidate of Redis 7.0 was made available today. Getting us excited about this updated in-memory key-value database are "significant performance optimizations" among other improvements...

NVIDIA 470.103.01 Linux Driver Brings RTX 2050 / MX 570 / MX 550 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 02/01/2022 - 02:19
While we are awaiting the stable debut of the new NVIDIA 510 Linux driver series, NVIDIA's long-lived 470 series driver production branch has been updated...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Integrating systemd-oomd For Improving Low Memory Handling

Phoronix - Mon, 01/31/2022 - 22:05
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is going to be making use of systemd-oomd for aiming to improve the experience when out of memory or under heavy memory pressure on the Linux distribution...

KDE's Falkon Browser Sees First Major Update In Nearly Three Years

Phoronix - Mon, 01/31/2022 - 21:38
Falkon as the KDE/Qt-focused open-source web browser is out with Falkon 3.2 as its first major update in nearly three years...

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