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Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December

Phoronix - Mon, 01/01/2024 - 18:43
Over the course of 2023 on Phoronix were more than 2,780 original news articles and more than 180 Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles. In the month of December alone were 211 original news articles and 20 featured articles/reviews. Here's a look back at what excited our Linux/open-source crowd over the final month of 2023...

Linux 6.7-rc8 Released: A Light Holiday Release With A Couple Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 01/01/2024 - 06:13
For this New Year's Eve the decision was made to release Linux 6.7-rc8 to allow for an extra week of testing -- and pushing back the Linux 6.8 merge window further past the holidays -- rather than releasing Linux 6.7 stable today. As such, Linux 6.7-rc8 is out for a final week of testing this new kernel...

Xorg - Hackaday

Google News - Mon, 01/01/2024 - 02:02
Xorg  Hackaday

OpenCV 4.9 Brings DNN Module Enhancements, Orbbec Gemini 2 Camera Support

Phoronix - Mon, 01/01/2024 - 01:33
OpenCV 4.9 released on Friday as the newest version of this widely-used, open-source computer vision (CV) library...

GNU Boot Drops Some Motherboards & CPU Code After Discovering Non-Free Bits

Phoronix - Sun, 12/31/2023 - 19:39
The GNU Boot project has been in the works as a Coreboot/Libreboot fork focused on "freedom respecting boot firmware" that is free from closed-source and proprietary components. But in working towards its inaugural v0.1 release, they discovered that they had inadvertently been shipping some non-free software around AMD CPU microcode updates and some motherboard ports with non-open-source code...

AMD Ends Out 2023 Still Working To Get The Rest Of SEV-SNP Upstream In Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 12/31/2023 - 19:17
This New Year's weekend brought the latest AMD patches working on plumbing the mainline Linux kernel with the hypervisor support around AMD Secure Nested Paging (SNP) as part of their Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). SEV-SNP has been supported since EPYC 7003 series and while some elements of the support have been upstreamed for securing VMs, some bits remain...

Alacritty 0.13 Released For This OpenGL-Powered Terminal Emulator

Phoronix - Sun, 12/31/2023 - 19:02
With all the talk recently around speedy terminal emulator options for Linux, some of you will be pleased to know Alacritty v0.13 has been released to end out the year for this cross-platform OpenGL-powered terminal emulator...

Rav1e 0.7.0 Released For Xiph.Org's Latest Rust-Based AV1 Encoding

Phoronix - Sun, 12/31/2023 - 18:50
The Xiph.Org project Rav1e to provide the fastest and safest AV1 encoder by leveraging the Rust programming language is ending out 2023 with a new feature release...

Freedreno Now Supports The Qualcomm Adreno 644 GPU

Phoronix - Sun, 12/31/2023 - 18:20
Igalia's Danylo Piliaiev has contributed support to the Freedreno Gallium3D driver in Mesa 24.0 for supporting the Qualcomm Adreno 644 graphics...

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