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Microsoft Promotes Its Open-Source Terminal To The Default For Windows 11 CLI Apps

Phoronix - Wed, 10/19/2022 - 02:50
As some interesting open-source news out of Microsoft today, their open-source Windows Termina that has been in development the past few years and providing many modern features is now the default beginning with Windows 11 22H2...

MoltenVK Updated For Vulkan 1.2 Support On Apple macOS/iOS

Phoronix - Wed, 10/19/2022 - 02:00
MoltenVK as the portability layer for Vulkan that exposes this industry standard graphics API on Apple's macOS, iOS, and tvOS platforms is now able to expose Vulkan 1.2 compatibility...

Git 2.38.1 Released For Two New Security Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Wed, 10/19/2022 - 01:15
Git 2.38.1 was just released along with updates to older versions, including the new point releases of v2.30.6, v2.31.5, v2.32.4, v2.33.5, v2.34.5, v2.35.5, v2.36.3, and v2.37.4. The big set of Git updates today is due to two more security issues coming to light...

AMD, Google, Microsoft & NVIDIA Announce "Caliptra" Open-Source Root of Trust

Phoronix - Wed, 10/19/2022 - 00:00
AMD, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA have used this week's OCP Global Summit to announce Caliptra as their open specification for a silicon Root-of-Trust (ROT) to be found with future CPUs / SoCs, GPUs, NICs, SSDs, and other hardware components.

OpenPOWER Foundation Demoes The LibreBMC POWER-Based Open-Source BMC

Phoronix - Wed, 10/19/2022 - 00:00
Last year the OpenPOWER Foundation announced LibreBMC as a POWER-based open-source BMC and now they have progressed to the point of actually demoing this BMC backed by a fully open-source software stack...

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