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Machine Check Banks To Double With Future AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 09/06/2020 - 01:35
In preparation for "future AMD systems", which is likely AMD EPYC Zen 3 "Milan" server processors, there will be more banks for the Machine Check Exception handling...

Chrome 87 Dev Builds Trying Again With X11+Wayland Ozone Enabled

Phoronix - Sat, 09/05/2020 - 21:42
While Chrome 86 entered beta with many features, Chrome 87 in development has re-enabled the Wayland+X11 Ozone support as another attempt at improving the Wayland support experience off the single binary...

Intel IWD 1.9 Released With New Capabilities

Phoronix - Sat, 09/05/2020 - 18:55
Intel's iNet Wireless Daemon (IWD) is out with a new feature release with this daemon continuing to see new usage and possibly on Ubuntu moving forward...

KDE Starts September With Faster Konsole Launching, Dolphin Thumbnail Generation

Phoronix - Sat, 09/05/2020 - 18:37
KDE has kicked off the new month with some interesting improvements...

Jon Masters Leaving NUVIA, Returning To Red Hat

Phoronix - Sat, 09/05/2020 - 12:00
Less than one year after joining NUVIA as VP of Software, longtime Linux proponent Jon Masters is leaving the company and returning to his previous position at Red Hat...

VirtualBox 6.1.14 Adds Linux 5.8 Kernel Support

Phoronix - Sat, 09/05/2020 - 05:42
Oracle has put out another VirtualBox 6.1 point release though making it notable this time around is support for the upstream Linux 5.8 kernel...

PipeWire Is In Increasingly Great Shape - Ready For More User Testing

Phoronix - Sat, 09/05/2020 - 01:51
PipeWire as the Red Hat led project for better audio/video stream management server on the Linux desktop is getting into increasingly great shape. This forward-looking solution that handles PulseAudio/JACK use-cases as well as pleasant integration with the likes of Wayland and Flatpak is ready to take on more user testing...

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