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GhostBSD 21.09.06 Released For This FreeBSD-Based Desktop OS

Phoronix - Wed, 09/08/2021 - 06:07
GhostBSD 21.09.06 is now available as the latest release of this desktop-minded, FreeBSD-based operating system...

Linux 5.15 KVM Defaults To The New x86 TDP MMU, Enables AMD SVM 5-Level Paging

Phoronix - Wed, 09/08/2021 - 02:43
The Linux 5.15 Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes this cycle are quite exciting on the x86 (x86_64) front with several prominent additions...

The Khronos Group Is Hosting A Virtual Vulkan Event Next Month

Phoronix - Wed, 09/08/2021 - 01:23
While The Khronos Group previously hosted in-person Vulkan events, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic their "Vulkanised 2021" event next month has morphed into a free virtual event...

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G / Ryzen 7 5700G Linux Gaming Benchmarks

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 21:20
Recently with my Linux benchmarks of the Ryzen 5 5600G and Ryzen 7 5700G Zen 3 APUs with Radeon Vega graphics I touched on the GPU graphics/compute performance in some of the basic benchmarks while in this article are a number of Steam Play and native Linux gaming benchmarks for looking at the potential for these latest-generation desktop APUs for Linux gaming.

OpenSSL 3.0 Officially Released

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 21:08
After many development snapshots and three years worth of work, OpenSSL 3.0 is now available as a major update to this widely-used SSL library...

X.Org DMX Dropped After More Than A Decade Of Crashes

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 19:53
The X.Org Distributed Multihead X (DMX) DDX driver has been dropped from the X.Org Server source tree due to its rather broken state for more than one decade...

FUSE With Linux 5.15 Now Allows Mounting An Active FUSE Device

Phoronix - Tue, 09/07/2021 - 19:44
While Linus Torvalds isn't much of a fan of FUSE / user-space file-systems, the FUSE code within the kernel does continue making improvements...

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