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AMD's "RDNA" class GPUs support wavefront sizes of 32 and 64 compared to older GCN GPUs at 64 threads. Going back to 2019 RadeonSI began making use of Wave32 for some shaders but now for Mesa 22.0 next quarter there are greater Wave32 improvements that have landed...

Using open source components has become the de facto way to develop modern applications. The increased adoption of open source has brought with it a new set of challenges and obstacles, and Tidelift, for the fourth year in a row, has laun

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How to install Bitwarden server on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS via docker  H2S Media

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Linux 5.16 is coming after a slight delay, offers improved support for Surface devices  Neowin

Is it decadent that I use four different computers each day, at different times?  The Register

Log4Shell explained – how it works, why you need to know, and how to fix it  Naked Security

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.16-rc5 and while things are looking normal at this stage, he announced that this 5.16 cycle will drag on longer due to the Christmas / New Year's holidays...

Linux 5.16-rc5 Released - Cycle To Be Extended Due To The Holidays  Phoronix

How to Download, Install, and Use Google Fonts on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

OpenRazer as the open-source, community-maintained collection of Razer peripheral support for Linux is out with a new release...

OpenRazer 3.2 Released For Supporting More Razer Peripherals On Linux  Phoronix

As We Prepare For 2022, Linux Still Doesn't Have Standardized Per-Client GPU Stats Reporting  Phoronix

One of the Intel patch series we have been waiting to see mainlined since all the way back in 2018 is around per-client GPU metrics reporting for being able to show various GPU engine activity on a per-process basis. Every once in a while the patches have been revived but have yet to reach mainline. They recently were revved once again, leaving us hope that in 2022 we might finally see this standardized per-client/process GPU statistics reporting land in the mainline kernel...

This year there has been a lot of Linux kernel work around improving the handling of tiered memory servers, namely those with traditional system RAM augmented by Intel Optane DC persistent memory. There has been work to demote pages during reclamation to the slower persistent memory, improving NUMA balancing around such systems to optimize memory placement, transparent page placement and related work around tiered memory Linux servers...

Speculative NUMA Fault Support Proposed For Improving Tiered Memory Linux Performance  Phoronix

Coming with future Intel CPUs is Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) to further enhance the security of virtual machines (VMs) and it's sounded a lot like AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) in many regards and in fact now for the Linux kernel Intel is looking at leveraging some of that SEV code to allow for more code sharing between these CPU features to improve virtualization security...

Aside from the separate work around experimental Vulkan Video decode support, thanks to Intel recently there have been a number of Vulkan improvements to the FFmpeg code around new accelerated filters...

One year after Apple introduced the M1 SoC and the effort began to bring-up this Apple Silicon under Linux, the effort remains ongoing and more code is inching closer to the mainline kernel...

Week in review: Apache Log4j 0day exploited, Kali Linux 2021.4 released, Patch Tuesday forecast  Help Net Security