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FreeBSD 13.0-RC5 Released Due To Lingering Bugs

Phoronix - Sun, 04/04/2021 - 00:13
FreeBSD 13.0 was supposed to be out by the end of March but a bumpy past few weeks has led to extra release candidates. Out this weekend is FreeBSD 13.0-RC5 for what might now be the final test release...

READFILE System Call Rebased For More Efficient Reading Of Small Files

Phoronix - Sat, 04/03/2021 - 20:34
The past year there has been work led by Greg Kroah-Hartman on a "READFILE" system call for efficiently reading small files such as for data exposed via sysfs. While not yet mainlined, this week the patches for this new system call were re-based giving us hope that perhaps we'll see it with Linux 5.13...

KDE Starts April By Landing KHamburgerMenu

Phoronix - Sat, 04/03/2021 - 18:06
The pandemic is still not showing any signs of slowing down KDE development but with the new month brings more changes and improvements to this open-source desktop...

OBS Studio 27.0-rc1 Released With Wayland Support, Undo/Redo

Phoronix - Sat, 04/03/2021 - 17:29
For those making use of OBS Studio for screen capturing or streaming from your desktop, the OBS Studio 27.0 release is on the way and it's a big one...

FreeDOS commands you need to know

opensource.com - Sat, 04/03/2021 - 15:00

FreeDOS, the open source implementation of DOS, provides a lightweight operating system for running legacy applications on modern hardware (or in an emulator) and for updating hardware vendor fails with a Linux-compatible firmware flasher. Getting familiar with FreeDOS is not only a fun throwback to the computing days of the past, it's an investment into gaining useful computing skills. In this article, I'll look at some of the essential commands you need to know to work on a FreeDOS system.


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Intel oneDNN 2.2 Released With More Optimizations For Alder Lake, Sapphire Rapids

Phoronix - Sat, 04/03/2021 - 12:00
This week Intel's open-source developers released version 2.2 of oneDNN, their deep neural network library that is part of their oneAPI offering after previously being developed under the names MKL-DNN and the Deep Neural Network Library (DNNL)...

AMD Publishes Security Analysis Of Zen 3 "PSF" That Could Possibly Lead To A Side-Channel Attack

Phoronix - Sat, 04/03/2021 - 06:01
AMD published a security whitepaper this week looking at their Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF) feature that is new to Zen 3 series processors. AMD is going to allow customers to disable this performance feature as they think it may be vulnerable to a Spectre-like attack...

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