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10 Myths About GNU/Linux Operating System

Tecmint - Mon, 01/09/2023 - 14:01
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Brief: In this guide, we discuss some of the GNU Linux myths and misconceptions which have been going on for a while. If you are getting started with Linux or have been using it

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Linux 6.2-rc3 Released - "Starting To Look A Lot More Normal"

Phoronix - Mon, 01/09/2023 - 02:55
Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.2-rc3 a few hours early today and noted that things are "starting to look a lot more normal" in terms of the code churn for this stage of the Linux 6.2 development cycle now that the holiday period has passed...

AVX2 & AVX-512 Optimized Versions Of ARIA Cipher Coming With Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Sun, 01/08/2023 - 22:39
The ARIA block cipher devised by South Korean researchers is being sped up by AVX2 and AVX-512 for its Linux kernel implementation...

AMD Begins Sending In "New Stuff" For Their Graphics Driver With Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Sun, 01/08/2023 - 19:45
AMD sent out an initial batch of "new stuff" for their AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel graphics driver code to begin queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.3 cycle kicking off during the back-half of February...

DragonFlyBSD Adds Temperature Sensor Support For AMD Zen 3 / Zen 4

Phoronix - Sun, 01/08/2023 - 19:20
While DragonFlyBSD has previously praised the performance of AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs going back to the Zen 2 days, it's taken them until this weekend to get temperature sensor monitoring working for Family 19h processors: Zen 3, Zen 3+, and Zen 4 CPUs...

Mir 2.11 Released With A Fix Around XWayland Use

Phoronix - Sun, 01/08/2023 - 19:02
A new version of Mir has been released, which in recent years has been serving as a Wayland compositor and used for various niche use-cases like smart exercise mirrors and other IoT and kiosk-type deployments...

OBS Studio 29 Released With AV1 Encode Additions, Upward Compression Filter

Phoronix - Sun, 01/08/2023 - 10:13
OBS Studio 29.0 is out this weekend as the latest major feature release to this very popular, cross-platform software for screencasting and screen recording purposes...

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