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GRUB2 Working On TPM2 Automatic Disk Unlock, TrenchBoot & More

Phoronix - Tue, 02/06/2024 - 05:27
Daniel Kiper with Oracle has provided a status update on current GRUB bootloader development activities, a look ahead, and plans for hopefully having out the next release in November...

Orange Pi Neo Coming As A Ryzen 7 + Linux Powered Handheld Device

Phoronix - Tue, 02/06/2024 - 05:08
When hearing of "Orange Pi Neo" this weekend from sources at FOSDEM 2024, I just assumed it was yet another Orange Pi single board computer... But then to hear it's a handheld game console from Orange Pi again gives off the impression of some low-power ARM device. It turns out though that the Orange Pi Neo is a forthcoming AMD Ryzen powered handheld gaming console...

Google Making $1M USD Investment To Improve Rust & C++ Interoperability

Phoronix - Tue, 02/06/2024 - 01:00
Google is announcing today they are contributing $1M USD to the Rust Foundation to focus on enhancing interoperability between the C++ and Rust programming languages...

AMD Ryzen 5 8600G Linux Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 02/06/2024 - 00:30
Last week the new AMD Ryzen 8000G series processors with Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA3 graphics became available in retail channels. The initial launch-day Linux testing was focused on the Ryzen 7 8700G processor, which showed great uplift for the integrated graphics over the Ryzen 5000G series with Vega/GFX9 graphics and the Ryzen 7000 series with their cut-down RDNA2 integrated graphics. In today's article the AMD Ryzen 5 8600G is the focus of the Linux testing along with an expanded set of comparison processors re-tested.

Intel Begins Rolling Out APX & AVX10 Binaries For Their Linux Distribution

Phoronix - Mon, 02/05/2024 - 22:52
Ahead of any processors being released with support for Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and Advanced Vector Extensions 10 (AVX10), Intel's in-house Clear Linux distribution is already beginning to roll-out binaries compiled for APX+AVX10 use...

LLVM/Clang Can Work Fine As A GCC Replacement For Linux Distributions

Phoronix - Mon, 02/05/2024 - 19:57
While the performance of LLVM/Clang is on-par with GCC these days on both x86_64 and AArch64 and the C/C++ support is very robust compared to many years ago, most Linux distributions continue using the GCC compiler and GNU toolchain by default. OpenMandriva is a well known Linux distribution that for several years has been a Clang-built Linux distribution while for three years now the Chimera Linux distribution has also been relying exclusively on an LLVM toolchain...

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