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CoreCtrl Now Available In Debian & Ubuntu 23.04 For Managing Your System

Phoronix - Wed, 04/12/2023 - 03:30
CoreCtrl as the open-source utility for managing your system's performance/vitals and supporting various application profiles has landed in Debian as well as being picked up for easy installation on the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04...

Firefox 113 Beta Adds Animated AV1 Image Support

Phoronix - Wed, 04/12/2023 - 00:30
With Firefox 112 now released, Mozilla has promoted Firefox 113 to beta...

AMD CPUs Are Safe For Late-Loading Microcode, Will No Longer Taint The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 04/12/2023 - 00:00
Intel processors should have any CPU microcode updates loaded early during the Linux boot process to avoid various known issues. When "late loading" CPU microcode after the system is up and running, various issues can happen on Intel processors that led them to mark the Linux kernel as tainted under such conditions. Tainting the kernel also happened when late-loading microcode on AMD CPUs but now that's been deemed unnecessary and late-loading CPU microcode on AMD processors is reportedly safe...

Mesa 23.1 RADV Change Leads To ~60% Smaller Single File Disk Cache

Phoronix - Tue, 04/11/2023 - 23:28
For those making use of Mesa's single-file on-disk shader cache, with the upcoming Mesa 23.1 release there will be increased space savings with the Radeon Vulkan (RADV) driver...

Intel Back To Working On Key Locker For Linux After Tackling Big Performance Issue

Phoronix - Tue, 04/11/2023 - 20:30
Going back to 2020 Intel's open-source engineers have been working on Key Locker support for Linux for that hardware feature introduced with Tigerlake CPUs. The Key Locker Linux support has been worked on now for nearly three years and finally after a hiatus a new version was sent out after they worked through a significant performance issue now being addressed with forthcoming firmware...

AMD Phoenix Support Progressing For Coreboot, New Google Chromebook Added

Phoronix - Tue, 04/11/2023 - 19:00
AMD and their partners continue working on bringing up Coreboot for the Ryzen Mobile 7040 Series "Phoenix" support for those very interesting forthcoming mobile processors with Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA3 graphics...

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