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AMD EPYC 4005 Series Launches For Entry-Level Zen 5 Servers

Phoronix - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 21:00
Last year AMD launched the EPYC 4004 series for taking Ryzen based processor designs into the EPYC segment for entry-level servers with ECC memory support, server designs with BMCs, and various enterprise software certifications and industry qualifications. Today they are launching the EPYC 4005 series as their new Zen 5 based offerings for entry-level / budget server deployments and other instances when not needing as much compute power or connectivity and other high-end features found with the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors.

Canonical Provides Status Update For Snapdragon X Elite Laptops On Ubuntu 25.04

Phoronix - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 17:47
Canonical provided a status update concerning the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite powered laptops on the recently released Ubuntu 25.04...

Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub

Phoronix - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 17:00
The Mozilla Firefox source code is now officially available on GitHub as they work to transition from their hg.mozilla.org servers...

Mesa 25.2 RADV Merges Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon RX 9070 Series / RDNA4

Phoronix - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 16:00
Merged for the Mesa 25.2 release next quarter are some further enhancements to the Vulkan ray-tracing support with the RADV open-source driver for AMD's new RDNA4 graphics cards...

UFW Firewall: How to Install, Configure, and Use It on Ubuntu/Debian

Tecmint - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 15:00
The post UFW Firewall: How to Install, Configure, and Use It on Ubuntu/Debian first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Since computers are connected to each other, services are growing rapidly, with examples such as email, social media, online shopping,

The post UFW Firewall: How to Install, Configure, and Use It on Ubuntu/Debian first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

NAK Compiler For Mesa's NVK Driver Adds Support For More NVIDIA Kepler GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 15:00
The Rust-written NAK shader compiler used by Mesa's NVK open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs has merged support for SM32 as the "KeplerB" / Kepler 2.0 graphics processors...

GNU Screen 5.0.1 Released Due To Several Security Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 12:26
GNU Screen 5.0.1 has been released to address several security issues...

Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode Due To "Training Solo"

Phoronix - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 12:00
Following Monday's public disclosure of the "Training Solo" security disclosure for this set of issues affecting multiple generations of Intel processors, new Intel CPU microcode has been released for Linux users as part of the mitigation process...

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