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Linux 5.18's DAMON Adds DAMOS Configuration Interface

Phoronix - Wed, 03/23/2022 - 12:00
Added to the Linux kernel last year was Amazon's DAMON for data access monitoring that has seen public patches since early 2020. Since its Linux 5.15 introduction, this kernel functionality has continued to see new functionality tacked on and now for Linux 5.18 is DAMOS...

NVIDIA 510.60.02 Linux Driver Released With RTX A4000H / RTX A5500 Support, Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 03/23/2022 - 07:27
In addition to a slew of exciting NVIDIA announcements from GTC 2022, released today was a new 510 series Linux driver build...

F2FS With Linux 5.18 Boasts Performance Improvements, Faster Recovery After Power-Cut

Phoronix - Wed, 03/23/2022 - 06:39
Jaegeuk Kim submitted the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates on Monday that today were merged to mainline for the Linux 5.19 cycle...

OpenJDK 18 Released With A Simple Web Server, UTF-8 By Default

Phoronix - Wed, 03/23/2022 - 02:30
Oracle today announced the general availability of JDK/OpenJDK 18 as the reference implementation of Java 18...

Steam On Chrome OS Finally Available In Alpha State For Select Chromebooks

Phoronix - Wed, 03/23/2022 - 01:45
After earlier this month announcing Steam for Chrome OS following months of rumors/leaks around the initiative, Google today has made an alpha build of Steam available for select Chromebooks...

NVIDIA Announces Hopper H100, Grace CPU Superchips, Jetson Orin Developer Kit

Phoronix - Wed, 03/23/2022 - 01:00
Jensen Huang has just wrapped up his GTC Spring 2022 keynote and thus the embargo has lifted on several exciting announcements from NVIDIA. NVIDIA has a lot of interesting hardware and software to talk about at this "#1 AI developer conference" from the Hopper H100 to next year's Grace CPU Superchips to the Jetson Orin.

CrossOver 21.2 Released With Fixes For Halo: Master Chief, Microsoft Office 365 On Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 03/22/2022 - 23:48
CodeWeavers is out today with CrossOver 21.2 as the newest version of their commercial downstream based on Wine that offers Windows application and game support across Linux, macOS, and Chrome OS...

How To Use The New AMD P-State Driver With Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Tue, 03/22/2022 - 19:39
Since the release of the Linux 5.17 kernel the leading question in my inbox has been from readers asking how to actually make use of the AMD P-State driver. Right now this driver isn't the default over ACPI CPUFreq and I haven't seen any Linux distribution vendors announce their plans to immediately default to this new driver, but over the months ahead I expect that to change. In any case, if wanting to use amd_pstate on Linux 5.17 today here is a brief how-to guide for making the transition...

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