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OpenBSD 7.2 Released With Support For Ampere Altra, Apple M2

Phoronix - Thu, 10/20/2022 - 22:30
Coming on the same day as Ubuntu 22.10, Theo de Raadt has released OpenBSD 7.2 as the latest version of this popular BSD operating system...

Ubuntu 22.10 Released With GNOME 43 Desktop, Raspberry Pi Improvements, PipeWire Audio

Phoronix - Thu, 10/20/2022 - 22:10
Canonical has formally released Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" as the latest six-month, non-LTS update to Ubuntu Linux...

Intel Core i5 13600K + Core i9 13900K "Raptor Lake" Linux Preview

Phoronix - Thu, 10/20/2022 - 21:00
Last month Intel announced 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" processors while today these processors officially go on sale. Today also marks the review embargo lift with Intel having provided Phoronix with the new Core i5 13600K and i9 13900K processors for Linux testing.

Glibc Picks Up More AVX-512 Optimizations - ~30% Less Cycles For Some String Functions

Phoronix - Thu, 10/20/2022 - 17:30
The widely depended upon GNU C Library "glibc" has seen another round of optimization work for benefiting those with AVX-512 processors from Intel or now on the AMD side too with Zen 4...

FineIBT Updated For Linux As Alternative Control Flow Integrity (CFI) Approach

Phoronix - Thu, 10/20/2022 - 17:14
Back in August 2021 saw initial patches by Intel for "FineIBT" for the Linux kernel as aiming to combine the best of their Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) and Control Flow Integrity for upping the kernel security protections in an efficient manner...

Open Firmware DRM Driver "OFDRM" Queuing For Linux 6.2

Phoronix - Thu, 10/20/2022 - 16:55
A first batch of "drm-misc-next" patches have been sent in for DRM-Next to queue until the Linux 6.2 merge window comes about in December. With this initial batch of new material for v6.2 is a new Direct Rendering Manager driver: OFDRM...

Intel Engineers Release SVT-AV1 1.3 With More Optimizations, Tuning For Better AV1 Encode

Phoronix - Thu, 10/20/2022 - 15:00
The open-source SVT-AV1 encoder for AV1 content that is primarily developed by Intel software engineers continues getting faster and finding new ways to provide better tuned presets and yield better performance for AV1 encoding on CPUs...

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