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Feral Publishes Linux Port Of Total War: WARHAMMER III

Phoronix - Fri, 06/17/2022 - 00:30
Feral Interactive today released their native Linux port of Total War: WARHAMMER III for Linux gamers...

Stable Updates Back To Linux 4.9 Released For Intel MMIO Stale Data Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Thu, 06/16/2022 - 20:53
Disclosed on Tuesday was the set of Intel "MMIO Stale Data" vulnerabilities. Committed immediately at embargo lift was the mitigation patches for Linux 5.19 Git while the patches have now worked their way back to the maintained stable kernel series. Out this morning is a slew of stable kernel releases back to Linux 4.9 for patching the Intel MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities that affect many generations of Intel CPUs from Rocket Lake and older...

Raspberry Pi's V3DV Driver Nearly Across The Finish Line For Vulkan 1.2

Phoronix - Thu, 06/16/2022 - 18:49
Mesa's V3DV driver for the Broadcom VideoCore GPU, which is most notably enabling open-source Vulkan API support for the Raspberry Pi 4 and newer, is nearly ready with its Vulkan 1.2 support...

Canonical Continues Working On Ubuntu's Firefox Snap Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 06/16/2022 - 18:26
Slow start-up performance of the Firefox web browser has been a frequent complaint on Ubuntu Linux since Canonical shifted over to using the Snap'ed version of Firefox by default. It's certainly what I find most annoying with Ubuntu as well, but at least Canonical engineers continue working on addressing the performance and other awkward issues with the Firefox Snap...

Linux Patches Revved For User-Space Peer-To-Peer DMA Between NVMe Drives

Phoronix - Thu, 06/16/2022 - 17:30
Being worked on since 2020 has been Linux support for user-space peer-to-peer DMA between NVMe drives and yesterday marked the latest iteration of those patches...

FreeBSD Developers Continue Work On Shortening Boot Time, Improving WiFi Driver Support

Phoronix - Thu, 06/16/2022 - 17:09
FreeBSD a few days ago published its Q1'2022 status report highlighting all the advancements made by this open-source operating system project...

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