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Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Delayed To End Of February Over Kernel & Signed Shim Woes

Phoronix - Fri, 01/20/2023 - 07:00
The Ubuntu xx.04.2 LTS releases tend to be a bit more meaningful for long-term support users since it includes the back-ported hardware enablement "HWE" stack with updated Linux kernel from the newer non-LTS release. Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS had been due for release on 9 February with that updated stack but is now pushed back to the end of the month over technical issues...

NVIDIA 525.85.05 Linux Driver Brings Few Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 01/20/2023 - 02:52
While we await the next post-R525 driver series feature release, NVIDIA today issued their newest production driver update for this current stable series...

Linux 6.3 To Squeeze A Bit More Performance Out Of AMD Zen 4 CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 01/20/2023 - 01:50
As I wrote about earlier this week, Linux 6.3 is positioned to support AMD Zen 4's Automatic IBRS feature. AMD's Linux enablement code around Automatic IBRS has been undergoing review the past few months and now via TIP's x96/cpu Git branch is to be sent in next month for the Linux 6.3 merge window. I've run some preliminary benchmarks of the Automatic IBRS support on Zen 4 and it's looking positive for further enhancing the performance of AMD's new Ryzen 7000 series and EPYC 9004 series processors.

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