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CXL 3.0 Specification Released - Doubles The Data Rate Of CXL 2.0

Phoronix - Tue, 08/02/2022 - 21:30
The CXL Consortium today announced the Compute Express Link 3.0 specification that doubles the data rate of CXL 2.0 to 64 GT/s while introducing no added latency...

NVIDIA 515.65.01 Linux Driver Released With Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 08/02/2022 - 21:30
NVIDIA today released their 515.65.01 Linux driver as the newest in the stable R515 series...

GNOME Console Could Be Ubuntu 22.10's GNOME Terminal Replacement

Phoronix - Tue, 08/02/2022 - 18:59
Back in May was a proposal by Canonical desktop software engineer Jeremy Bicha to use the new GNOME Console as the default terminal application in Ubuntu 22.10, replacing the GNOME Terminal. That default change hasn't happened yet but some necessary improvements have now been made to Ubuntu Kinetic's gnome-console package ahead of that possible shift...

Rust Code For The Linux Kernel Updated With More Features Implemented

Phoronix - Tue, 08/02/2022 - 18:10
Miguel Ojeda has posted the newest patch series implementing the Rust programming language infrastructure and initial sample code for the Linux kernel...

Btrfs With Linux 6.0: Send Protocol v2, ~3x Boost For Direct Read Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 08/02/2022 - 17:55
SUSE's David Sterba sent in the Btrfs file-system updates on Monday for the in-development Linux 6.0 kernel...

AMD Prepares Linux Support For L3SBE Slow Memory Bandwidth Configuration, BMEC

Phoronix - Tue, 08/02/2022 - 17:25
Some of the newest Linux patches out of AMD for new processors are implementing support for some recently-documented Quality of Service extensions: L3SBE and BMEC...

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