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Vulkan 1.3.207 Brings Another New Extension From Valve

Phoronix - Tue, 03/08/2022 - 22:30
Vulkan 1.3.207 is out as the latest routine update to this high performance graphics / compute API...

AMD Announces The Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX Series For What Should Be Great On Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 03/08/2022 - 22:00
It's been well over two years since AMD introduced the Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series and subsequently introduced the Threadripper PRO 3000WX series as workstation-focused parts. Today AMD is introducing the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX Series as the first Zen 3 based Threadripper processors.

BoringTun v0.4 Released For CloudFlare's Rust-Based WireGuard

Phoronix - Tue, 03/08/2022 - 20:30
Back in 2019 the folks at CloudFlare announced BoringTun as a Rust-written WireGuard user-space implementation. Yesterday marked the first tagged release of BoringTun in the form of version 0.4...

Vulkan Ready To Take On Safety-Critical Market With Vulkan SC 1.0

Phoronix - Tue, 03/08/2022 - 19:08
Last week The Khronos Group introduced Vulkan SC 1.0 in providing safety-critical Vulkan support for allowing this modern graphics API to used in new areas requiring maximum safety requirements...

Mold 1.1.1 Released With Optimized Memory Usage, New Options

Phoronix - Tue, 03/08/2022 - 18:50
A new version of the high performance, open-source Mold linker is now available with more feature additions and performance optimizations...

Renesas H8/300 CPU Support Looks To Be Dropped Again From The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 03/08/2022 - 18:30
The Linux kernel support is looking to drop support for Renesas (Hitachi) H8/300 CPUs once again...

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