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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

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OpenCV 4.10 Released With Many DNN Improvements, Wayland Backend For Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 17:54
OpenCV 4.10 is out today as the newest version of the Open Computer Vision Library for this widely-used library with machine learning support, object detection, segmentation and recognition, motion video tracking, gesture recognition, and a variety of other features important for today's diverse workloads...

How to Make ISO from Directory in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 17:31
The post How to Make ISO from Directory in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Creating an ISO file from a directory in Linux is a useful task for various purposes, such as distributing software,

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Phoronix Turns 20 Years Old This Week - Celebrate With A Premium Special

Phoronix - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 16:00
On Wednesday, 5 June, marks 20 years since I started Phoronix.com for covering the Linux hardware ecosystem! It's sure been a long and tough journey with more remarks I'll reserve for Wednesday, but given the two decade mark, there's a Phoronix Premium special for those wishing to mark the special occasion and help ensure the site's healthy continuance into the next decade...

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Announced - Zen 5 Showing Big Generational Uplift

Phoronix - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 11:00
Arguably most exciting out of AMD's slew of Computex 2024 announcements is finally making official the Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" processors built atop the new Zen 5 cores...

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