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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...

Linux 4.9.337 Released To End Out The 2016 LTS Series

Phoronix - Sat, 01/07/2023 - 23:23
The Linux 4.9 kernel was released back in 2016 and Greg Kroah-Hartman today issued the final point release for that kernel series with the Long Term Support (LTS) period now expired...

A Developer Hopes To Restore GCC's Java Front-End

Phoronix - Sat, 01/07/2023 - 22:39
Following GCC Rust being merged and the Modula-2 front-end, a developer hopes to restore the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Java front-end, GCJ...

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