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Want Deepin Desktop without privacy worries? Try ExTiX Linux  ZDNet

It finally happened! An updated Zstd kernel implementation based on Zstd v1.5 upstream has been merged for the in-development Linux 6.2 to provide better performance and reliability for Zstd compression/decompression use-cases from compressed firmware to transparent file-system compression...

Updated Zstd Implementation Merged For Linux 6.2  Phoronix

EndeavourOS Cassini Release Brings Linux Kernel 6.0, Pinebook Pro Support, and New Bootloader Options  9to5Linux

The "char/misc" changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.2 as the random catch-all area of the kernel for drivers not fitting well in other subsystem areas. Notably with this update for Linux 6.2 is continued work on enabling the Intel-owned Habana Labs Gaudi2 AI accelerator...

Linux 6.2 "char/misc" Changes Land With Continued Intel Gaudi2 ...  Phoronix

Top 10 Stories about Compute Engines, Linux in 2022  ITPro Today

Mobile Linux distro postmarketOS 22.12 brings Fairphone 4 and ...  Liliputing

With the great AMD 4th Gen EPYC Linux performance showing significant generational uplift and dominating against the current Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" competition, it's a combination of the twelve channels of DDR5 system memory support, up to 96 cores per socket, introduction of AVX-512, and other Zen 4 micro-architectural improvements. As follow-up testing articles to all of the Genoa data delivered thus far, over the weeks ahead I have additional benchmark results to share looking more closely at these different areas of improvement for AMD 4th Gen EPYC. In today's article is a look at the EPYC 9654 2P performance with AVX-512 on/off while also looking at the CPU power consumption impact and the affect on CPU clock frequencies and thermals.

Linux 6.2 exFAT update to improve performance when creating files and directories  CNX Software

In early 2021 the Vulkan Video extensions were published in beta/provisional form as a new industry-standard video encode/decode API with the context of Vulkan. As a nice Christmas gift this week from The Khronos Group, the extensions have been finalized as Vulkan Video 1.0 and are now deemed ready for production use...

Linux Mint 21.1 is Now Available to Download  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint 21.1 is Now Available to Download  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint 21.1 is Now Available to Download  OMG! Ubuntu!

Microsoft exFAT To Receive Huge Performance Boost on Linux Sony’s Take Is Here  Research Snipers

Valve is paying a whole lot of developers to keep the Steam Deck's ...  PC Gamer

KDE Plasma gets Wayland Fractional Scaling, Fixing Multi-Screen ...  GamingOnLinux

Multiplayer sandbox building game Brickadia heads to Steam next ...  GamingOnLinux

Epic Games needs your birthday to keep your account working in ...  GamingOnLinux

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