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AMD NPU Firmware Upstreamed For The Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Coming In Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Tue, 12/03/2024 - 19:33
With the AMDXDNA kernel driver for Ryzen AI NPU support on Linux now ready for merging and is queued in drm-misc-next for the Linux 6.14 kernel early next year, the AMD NPU firmware binaries have also now been upstreamed to linux-firmware.git for having the necessary firmware support in place...

Rustls Multi-Threaded Performance Is Battering OpenSSL

Phoronix - Tue, 12/03/2024 - 19:14
The Rustls project as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and an alternative to the likes of the widely-used OpenSSL and Google's BoringSSL has published some new performance figures. When looking at the multi-threaded server performance of Rustls, its performance is typically outperforming BoringSSL by a significant margin and downright dominating over OpenSSL...

NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.6 Brings CPU/GPU Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 12/03/2024 - 18:34
NVIDIA's RTX Remix software for remastering DirectX 8 and DirectX 9 era games is out with the newest version of the RTX-Remix runtime that is powered in part by DXVK for Direct3D to Vulkan mapping...

PostgreSQL Finally Deprecates MD5 Passwords

Phoronix - Tue, 12/03/2024 - 18:20
While long overdue, the PostgreSQL database server has finally deprecated MD5 password support with its latest code...

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Phoronix - Tue, 12/03/2024 - 18:07
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Beginner’s Guide to Pacman and AUR Helpers on Arch Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 12/03/2024 - 13:14
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Arch Linux is a powerful and flexible Linux distribution, loved by many for its simplicity and control. However, new users

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FreeBSD 14.2 Released With OpenZFS Upgrade, Installer Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 12/03/2024 - 09:20
FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE is out today as a strong, incremental update to the FreeBSD 14 series...

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