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Cloud Hypervisor 41 Brings Performance Improvements & Landlock Sandboxing

Phoronix - Fri, 08/16/2024 - 20:59
The Cloud Hypervisor open-source project that serves as a Rust-written VMM focused on security and started by Intel but now backed by a multitude of vendors is out with its newest feature release. Cloud Hypervisor 41 is the new feature release worked on by engineers at Intel, Google, Microsoft, Rivos, Tencent, Ant Group, and others for this cloud and security minded virtual machine monitor...

Ubuntu's X.Org Session Support Now Split Into Separate Package

Phoronix - Fri, 08/16/2024 - 18:42
Ahead of the now in-place Ubuntu 24.10 feature freeze, the Ubuntu GNOME X.Org session support was split off into its own separate binary Debian package from the main (default) Wayland session handling...

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Now Handles 12-bit AV1 Video Decoding

Phoronix - Fri, 08/16/2024 - 18:29
The Vulkan Video support within Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver continues to be improved upon. The newest addition now found in the code for Mesa 24.3 is enabling 12-bit AV1 content accelerated decoding...

Rockchip Driver Will Be Able To Drive 4K @ 60Hz HDMI Displays With Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Fri, 08/16/2024 - 18:13
Sent out today was the latest round of DRM-Misc-Next patches to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window opening up in mid-September. For those using ARM single board computers with a Rockchip SoC and have been struggling for 4K support over HDMI, the Rockchip updates in Linux 6.12 should excite you...

Preemption Support Being Tackled For Adreno 700 Series With Linux MSM DRM Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 08/16/2024 - 18:05
For improving the open-source graphics driver support for Qualcomm Adreno 700 series hardware such as what's found in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and other SoCs, preemption support is finally being tackled...

How to Transfer Files (Local and Remote) in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 08/16/2024 - 13:38
The post How to Transfer Files (Local and Remote) in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Transferring files in Linux is a common task that every system administrator should know, especially when transferring files between local

The post How to Transfer Files (Local and Remote) in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Red Hat Developing Ramalama To "Make AI Boring" By Offering Great AI Simplicity & Ease Of Use

Phoronix - Fri, 08/16/2024 - 00:55
Red Hat engineers have been developing Ramalama as a new open-source project that hopes to "make AI boring" by this inferencing tool striving for simplicity so users can quickly and easily deploy AI workloads without much fuss...

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