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Free RHEL Is Also RHEL - Breaking Defense

Google News - Wed, 04/14/2021 - 00:29
Free RHEL Is Also RHEL  Breaking Defense

X.Org Server 1.20.11 Released Due To New Security Advisory

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 23:02
Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative has uncovered another security issue with the X.Org Server...

SiFive Tapes Out Their First 5nm RISC-V Processor Core

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 21:25
SiFive's OpenFive business unit announced today they have completed their first tape out of a RISC-V processor core using TSMC's 5nm process...

Vulkan Video Arrives For New Industry-Standard Video Encode/Decode

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 21:00
For years we have been eager to learn more about the long mentioned Vulkan Video API, which was supposed to come in H1-2020, but now has finally arrived with today's v1.2.175 update in provisional form. The new Vulkan Video extensions allow for GPU-accelerated video encode/decode. The initial public work is treated as a provisional specification and with limited codec coverage but will be expanded upon in time...

Multigenerational LRU Code Updated For Enhancing Linux Kernel Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 20:44
Last month Google engineers proposed multi-generational LRU for Linux to enhance the kernel performance and today the work has advanced to a second version...

Vulkan 1.2.175 Published With Many New Extensions

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 19:11
Vulkan 1.2.175 is now public as the latest Vulkan API specification and it's bringing with it many new extensions...

ROCm AOMP 13.0 Released For OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 18:41
AOMP 13.0 is out today as the first update to AMD's Radeon OpenMP offloading compiler since AOMP 11.0 last December...

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