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Kali Linux 2021.1 – Fresh Installation Guide

Tecmint - Wed, 05/12/2021 - 14:00
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Kali Linux is arguably one of the best out-of-the-box Linux distributions available for security testing. While many of the tools in Kali can be installed in most Linux distributions, the Offensive Security team developing

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AMD Releases ROCm 4.2 Compute Stack

Phoronix - Wed, 05/12/2021 - 09:08
Just over one month has passed since the release of Radeon ROCm 4.1 and it's now been succeeded by the ROCm 4.2 feature release...

AV1 Decoder dav1d Lands 10-bit AVX2 Assembly For Big Speed-Up, Thanks Facebook + Netflix

Phoronix - Wed, 05/12/2021 - 06:28
For those making use of 10-bit AV1 content and using dav1d as the performant CPU-based decoder, the performance on modern Intel and AMD processors is about to be a heck of a lot better...

AMD Publishes Radeon Rays 4.1 As Open-Source

Phoronix - Tue, 05/11/2021 - 23:26
Last year Radeon Rays 4.0 brought Vulkan support while dropping OpenCL and at the same time no longer being open-source... This GPU-accelerated ray intersection library used by the likes of Radeon ProRender is out today with version 4.1 and now it's back to being open-source...

NVIDIA 460.80 Linux Driver Released With New Laptop GPU Support, Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 05/11/2021 - 23:07
With today NVIDIA announcing the GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti laptop GPUs, they have issued the 460.80 Linux driver as their newest long-lived driver release...

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