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Hardware Monitoring Sensor Driver Additions Begin Queuing For Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Thu, 01/05/2023 - 04:00
While not even midway through the Linux 6.2 cycle yet, the hardware monitoring "HWMON" sensor driver feature changes queuing in the "hwmon-next" branch is seeing more hardware support readied for Linux 6.3...

Red Hat Planning A Hackfest To Further Advance HDR Support On The Linux Desktop

Phoronix - Thu, 01/05/2023 - 02:26
Red Hat has been among the key Linux stakeholders working for years toward the ultimate goal of ensuring the Linux desktop will have suitable High Dynamic Range (HDR) support in place. They are working to organize a hackfest this year to further the progress being made on HDR application support on the GNOME desktop as well as associated open-source graphics driver infrastructure...

Lighttpd 1.4.68 Brings Stronger TLS Defaults, KTLS Sendfile Support For Faster Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 01/05/2023 - 01:35
Lighttpd 1.4.68 was released on Tuesday as the newest version of this lightweight, high performance open-source web server...

Fedora 38 To Beef Up Its Compiler Fortification Defenses

Phoronix - Wed, 01/04/2023 - 22:00
In addition to Fedora 38 now allowing "no-omit-frame-pointer" to enhance profiling/debugging with possible performance costs, this next Fedora Linux release is also planning to use "_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3" compiler defenses to further bolster security...

AlmaLinux, CentOS Stream, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora & Ubuntu On AMD 4th Gen EPYC Genoa

Phoronix - Wed, 01/04/2023 - 20:30
Over the holidays some fun benchmarking was to be had with the dual AMD EPYC 9654 "Genoa" processors providing a combined 192 cores / 384 threads and seeing how various modern Linux distributions were competing for this flagship 4th Gen EPYC server configuration. Up on the testing block was AlmaLinux 9.1, CentOS Stream 9, Clear Linux 37930, Debian 12 Testing, Fedora Server 37, Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, Ubuntu 22.10, and Ubuntu 23.04 daily.

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