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Mesa 21.2.3 Released As A Small Update To This Graphics Driver Stack

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 07:27
Succeeding Mesa 21.2.2 from earlier this month that was a much delayed and in turn very large release, Mesa 21.2.3 is out today and it's on the quieter side...

"pkill_on_warn" Proposed For Killing Linux Processes That Cause A Kernel Warning

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 03:32
A new kernel option was proposed today called "pkill_on_warn" that would kill all threads in a process if that process provoked a kernel warning...

Libcamera Maturing Well As Open-Source Camera Stack

Phoronix - Thu, 09/30/2021 - 02:30
Libcamera as an open-source camera stack that has been coming together over the past few years has been maturing quite well, broadening its supported hardware and feature set, and more in filling a void in the Linux camera ecosystem...

Windows 11 WSL2 Performance Is Quite Competitive Against Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Ubuntu 21.10

Phoronix - Wed, 09/29/2021 - 21:18
Recently I carried out some updated Windows 11 benchmarks against Linux to look at how this forthcoming Microsoft operating system release is competing with Ubuntu. In this article is a fresh look at the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) performance on the near-final Windows 11 against Ubuntu Linux.

AMD Aims For 30x Energy Efficiency Improvement For AI Training + HPC By 2025

Phoronix - Wed, 09/29/2021 - 21:09
AMD this morning announced a goal of increasing the energy efficiency of EPYC processors running AI training and high performance workloads by 30x... Within the next four years...

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