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Debian Seeing Work To Support systemd-boot

Phoronix - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 23:10
Debian developer Luca Boccassi has begun working on systemd-boot support for using it as an alternative to the GRUB bootloader...

Linux Mint Disabling Unverified Flatpaks By Default

Phoronix - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 20:43
The Linux Mint project is out with its monthly newsletter that highlights recent progress made on this Ubuntu (and Debian) derived, desktop-focused Linux distribution. In May they worked out enhancements to Linux Mint's software manager and also continued working on optimizing their package archive hosting...

Up To 162% Faster AES-GCM Encryption/Decryption For Intel & AMD CPUs On Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 18:38
With the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel Eric Biggers of Google landed new AES-XTS implementations for much faster performance for Intel/AMD processors via new AES-NI + AVX, VAES + AVX2, VAES + AVX10/256, and VAES + AVX10/512 code paths. Biggers has since begun tackling even better AES-GCM encryption/decryption performance by leveraging a new code path to utilize AVX-512/AVX10 and/or VAES...

GCC 15 Merges Support For Intel APX NF

Phoronix - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 18:22
The latest feature work around Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) that is merged for the in-development GCC 15 compiler is supporting APX NF functionality for suppressing the update of status flags on arithmetic operations...

How to Disable Avahi-Daemon in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 18:04
The post How to Disable Avahi-Daemon in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Avahi-daemon is a service running on Linux systems that provides network service discovery using mDNS (Multicast DNS) and DNS-SD (DNS

The post How to Disable Avahi-Daemon in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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