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Intel Continues Working On New ISA Extensions To Help Fight Speculation Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 02:01
In addition to making public new security advisories this Patch Tuesday requiring updated CPU microcode, Intel also issued a press statement about their ongoing fight against speculation vulnerabilities with their processors...

Intel Releases New CPU Microcode Due To New Security Vulnerabilities (June 2021)

Phoronix - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 01:07
Intel just issued a big set of CPU microcode updates for addressing a new set of security advisories just made public...

AMD Announces The Radeon PRO W6000 Series - RDNA2 Workstation GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 21:57
Following their tease last week, AMD today formally announced the Radeon PRO W6000 series as their newest and most powerful RDNA (2) based workstation cards...

KDE Plasma 5.22 Released With Much Better Wayland Support, Usability Enhancements

Phoronix - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 20:45
KDE's big Plasma 5.22 desktop release is now available with maturing its Wayland support continuing to be one of the big ongoing focuses for the project...

openSUSE FrontRunner Aims To Advance The Distro's Hardware Architecture Support

Phoronix - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 19:21
More information on openSUSE's FrontRunner initiative are now being shared as a rebuild of SUSE Linux Enterprise in the Open Build Service and allowing for staging changes to advance architecture enablment for future Leap releases...

Canonical's Mir 2.4 Brings Numerous X11 + Wayland Enhancements

Phoronix - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 19:09
Mir continues to be developed by Ubuntu-maker Canonical as a set of libraries and Wayland compositor for building Wayland-based shells with integrated window management and other features to ease the bring-up and catering to business use-cases around IoT and digital signage, among other uses. Out today is version 2.4 of Mir with more features and fixes...

CentOS Looks To Deal With Deprecated Device Support, Out-Of-Tree Kernel Modules

Phoronix - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 18:14
Being proposed within the CentOS project is a new special interest group for providing kernel modules not otherwise available within CentOS Stream. This would also include changes around where CentOS / Red Hat disable some kernel modules or artificially limit the scope of supported hardware...

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