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Setting Up Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" For ...  Phoronix

With Intel's 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors that launched this week, Intel is betting heavily on the integrated accelerators for offering them an advantage over competitors for modern hyperscaler tasks and other workloads able to take advantage of the In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), QuickAssist Technology (QAT), and the Dynamic Load Balancer (DLB). But what does the software landscape currently look like and what's needed to actually make use of these accelerators under Linux? Here is a brief how-to guide / overview for making use of the accelerators on your Linux server.

Nala is a much cleaner, neater alternative for the APT package manager  TechRepublic

Easily Analyse Your Website Traffic From the Linux Terminal With GoAccess  MUO - MakeUseOf

Kinsing Malware Targets Kubernetes  The New Stack

Sylabs Launches Availability of Containerization Software for ...  Database Trends and Applications

Following the Linux kernel deprecating the ReiserFS file-system and with plans to drop the kernel driver in 2025, the next file-system target being evaluated for whether it should stick around the kernel is the Journaled File-System, JFS...

Linux Developers Eye Orphaning The JFS File-System  Phoronix

The Division 2 Launches On Steam To Mixed Reviews After Ubisoft ...  TheGamer

14 Best PlayStation 4 Hidden Object Games  Gameranx

Junior Linux Engineer  IamExpat in the Netherlands

Deep Rock Galactic sold 2.3 million copies last year and I'm not ...  GamingOnLinux

UNIX vs. Linux vs. Windows: How They Compare | Spiceworks  Spiceworks News and Insights

New Ubuntu Kernel Security Updates Fix 5 Vulnerabilities, Patch Now  9to5Linux

Since Linux 6.0 there has been various graphics driver code being upstreamed for Intel's next-generation Meteor Lake processors, among other Meteor Lake driver enablement work in general. Now coming with the Linux 6.3 cycle is enough of the graphics/display driver support for Meteor Lake being in place that it can actually light up a display...

Linux 6.3 To Enable Display Support For Intel Meteor Lake, DP MST ...  Phoronix

Back in December AMD posted P-State Linux driver patches for implementing a "Guided Autononmous Mode" of operation to complement the existing the passive mode used by the amd_pstate driver and the pending fully-autonomous/EPP mode that has seen many patch revisions in recent months. While much of AMD's engineering focus has been on getting the P-State EPP code upstreamed, out today is the second iteration of that Guided Autonomous Mode support...

AMD Updates P-State "Guided Autonomous Mode" Support For Linux  Phoronix

The next release of 0 A.D. will have experimental Vulkan API support  GamingOnLinux

The open-source WebKit browser engine used by Apple's web browsers as well as relied upon by several other vendors and software solutions is out with a notable technology preview update...