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How to Mount and Unmount an ISO Image in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 07/18/2022 - 12:00
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An ISO image or .iso (International Organization for Standardization) file is an archive file that contains a disk image called ISO 9660 file system format. Every ISO file has .iso an extension has a

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Linux 5.19-rc7 Released Following A Tough Week With Retbleed, Intel GPU Firmware Snafu

Phoronix - Mon, 07/18/2022 - 05:18
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.19-rc7 following a busy week due to the Retbleed security mitigation and not only the CPU overhead performance impact it puts on users but the mess it has on kernel development especially when it comes to embargoed issues that make the patches difficult to review/test well prior to embargo lift...

The Current Retbleed Performance Costs With An AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

Phoronix - Mon, 07/18/2022 - 00:50
Following some weekend benchmarks here are more complementary numbers on the Retbleed mitigation performance benchmark costs. These additional numbers are on a Zen 2 based AMD Ryzen 7 4800U APU that has been common both to laptops as well as embedded/low-profile devices for thin client computing, IoT / edge use-cases, and more...

Retbleed: Call Depth Tracking Mitigation Eyed To Avoid IBRS "Performance Horror Show"

Phoronix - Sun, 07/17/2022 - 18:18
Due to the new "Retbleed" security mitigation further hurting CPU performance for affected processors, Intel engineers have revisited work on call depth tracking mitigation as an alternative to the Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) mitigation to help in lowering the overhead costs...

Raptor Computing To Launch "Arctic Tern" As An FPGA-Based Soft BMC

Phoronix - Sun, 07/17/2022 - 17:55
Raptor Computing Systems that is known for their open-source POWER9-based Talos II and Blackbird systems that are fully open-source designs and running on free software down to the firmware level are preparing for a new product launch...

RADV Vulkan Driver Now Supports NVIDIA's Device Generated Commands

Phoronix - Sun, 07/17/2022 - 17:42
As of this week in Mesa 22.2, the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has added support for the VK_NV_device_generated_commands extension. This NVIDIA-created extension that has been around for a few years with their hardware allows for the GPU to generate some of the most frequent rendering commands on the hardware itself...

Debian's DebConf22 Kicks Off In Kosovo

Phoronix - Sun, 07/17/2022 - 17:23
After the COVID-19 pandemic hiatus, Debian's annual conference "DebConf" is back to being an in-person event and started this morning in Kosovo...

Intel's Compute Runtime To Default To Disabling Gen11 & Older Support On Windows

Phoronix - Sun, 07/17/2022 - 17:16
Intel this week issued their Compute Runtime 22.28.23726 pre-release for this open-source GPU compute stack on Windows and Linux for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support on their graphics hardware...

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