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AMD Secure Memory Encryption "SME" Performance With 4th Gen EPYC Genoa

Phoronix - Wed, 12/21/2022 - 23:48
One of the security improvements made by AMD with their 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" processors is upping their Secure Memory Encryption (SME) support from 128-bit to now 256-bit AES-XTS. AMD Secure Memory Encryption can be used for helping thwart attacks on the main system memory, but at what performance cost? In this article is an initial look at the AMD EPYC Genoa performance with AMD SME enabled/disabled.

Darktable 4.2 Released With JPEG-XL Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/21/2022 - 21:04
For those dealing with RAW photos around the holidays, Darktable 4.2 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source photography workflow software that aims to compete with the likes of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom...

Linux 6.2 Lands Support For Multiple Compression Streams With ZRAM

Phoronix - Wed, 12/21/2022 - 19:31
Merged last week to Linux 6.2 as part of Andrew Morton's memory management related patches is support within ZRAM for multiple compression streams...

Wlroots-Based Xfce Xwfm4 Wayland Code Taking Shape

Phoronix - Wed, 12/21/2022 - 19:06
With last week's release of Xfce 4.18 there was some disappointment expressed among readers over the lack of any major Wayland progress in this desktop release. While not part of Xfce 4.18, the work on adapting the Xfwm4 compositor / window manager code to using Wlroots for Wayland has continued progressing...

Linux MGLRU Results Are Looking Great On Ampere Altra

Phoronix - Wed, 12/21/2022 - 18:55
One of the best features to make it into the mainline Linux kernel this year is MGLRU as the Multi-Gen LRU for overhauling the kernel's page reclamation code. The MGLRU code that premiered in Linux 6.1 has been showing off very well in a variety of benchmarks...

USB & Thunderbolt Updates Land In Linux 6.2

Phoronix - Wed, 12/21/2022 - 18:48
The USB and Thunderbolt driver updates were merged a few days ago for the Linux 6.2 kernel with its merge window open until Christmas...

Advanced Copy Command – Shows Progress Bar While Copying/Moving Files in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 12/21/2022 - 16:31
The post Advanced Copy Command – Shows Progress Bar While Copying/Moving Files in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Advanced-Copy is a powerful command line program that is very much similar, but a little modified version of the original cp command and mv tools. This modified version of the cp command adds a

The post Advanced Copy Command – Shows Progress Bar While Copying/Moving Files in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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