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AMD Continues Preparing openSIL Concept For Phoenix & Turin Processors

Phoronix - Tue, 02/18/2025 - 19:49
One of the AMD software projects we are very bullish on for the future is openSIL for opening up more of the CPU silicon initialization code for what will eventually replace AGESA across all client and server processors that is aiming for production readiness with Zen 6. In turn, AMD openSIL should allow easier/better Coreboot support. One of the development milestone release targets did slip but they remain working on preparing AMD openSIL releases for Phoenix client and Turin server hardware...

openSUSE Spin Achieves 100% Bit-Identical Packages For Reproducible Builds

Phoronix - Tue, 02/18/2025 - 19:30
There is an openSUSE project called Reproducible-openSUSE "RBOS" working on a proof-of-concept for constructing openSUSE in a bit-identical manner as part of the broad Reproducible Builds effort to be able to reproduce builds bit-for-bit against what is being compiled by the distribution vendor or other software distribution. The openSUSE RBOS has achieved 100% bit-identical packages as a major milestone...

PostgreSQL Lands Self-Join Elimination Optimization

Phoronix - Tue, 02/18/2025 - 19:21
More than seven years in the making, merged yesterday for PostgreSQL is a self-join elimination "SJE" feature as a performance optimization for some queries...

btop: A Modern and Resourceful System Monitor

Tecmint - Tue, 02/18/2025 - 15:43
The post btop: A Modern and Resourceful System Monitor first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

btop is a highly customizable, real-time system monitor tool that provides users with an intuitive and visually appealing interface to

The post btop: A Modern and Resourceful System Monitor first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

SDL & MPV Media Player Land Support For Wayland Color Management / HDR

Phoronix - Tue, 02/18/2025 - 09:52
Following the upstream Wayland Protocols repository landing the Wayland color management protocol for enabling HDR support and this morning's release of Wayland Protocols 1.41, the SDL library and MPV media player are the first two clients supporting this now-official protocol...

Progress Continues On Unofficial Firefox GTK4 Port, Code Now Available On GitHub

Phoronix - Tue, 02/18/2025 - 07:37
For all of those that were intrigued over the independent code porting the Firefox web browser to the GTK4 toolkit, there has been a bit more progress and all of the code is also now obtainable via GitHub for this unofficial port...

ISD 0.5 Released For Interactive systemd Management

Phoronix - Tue, 02/18/2025 - 04:09
A few weeks ago I wrote about ISD as a new open-source project for interactively managing systemd that aims to be more user intuitive especially for those that aren't veteran Linux server administrators. ISD has continued evolving and out today is ISD v0.5 with the latest enhancements for better managing systemd...

CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers To Work On Wine & Valve's Proton

Phoronix - Tue, 02/18/2025 - 03:59
The friends at CodeWeavers have relayed work that they are looking to hire multiple Wine developers to join their paid team working on upstream Wine as well as their CrossOver products, Valve's Proton downstream for Steam Play, and related Wine-based tech...

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