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NetBSD 10.0-RC2 Released For Testing This Big BSD Release

Phoronix - Wed, 01/03/2024 - 23:18
When it comes to new BSD milestones to look forward to in 2024, one of the big releases on deck is that of NetBSD 10.0 that has been in development since 2019. Now available for testing is the second release candidate of NetBSD 10...

Intel Launches A New Independent Enterprise GenAI Company: Articul8

Phoronix - Wed, 01/03/2024 - 22:03
Intel along with investment firm DigitalBridge Group announced the formation today of Articul8, an independent company to focus on turn-key Generative AI "GenAI" for enterprise customers and focused on enterprise workflows...

Fwupd 1.9.11 Released With Support For New Algoltek & Luxshare USB Devices

Phoronix - Wed, 01/03/2024 - 21:31
Last month LVFS/Fwupd celebrated serving more than 100 million firmware updates to Linux users while today Fwupd 1.9.11 has shipped as the latest update to this open-source firmware updating solution...

Red Hat Evaluating x86-64-v3 Requirement For RHEL 10

Phoronix - Wed, 01/03/2024 - 19:48
Not only is Canonical exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 builds for targeting Intel and AMD processors with AVX/AVX2 support, but Red Hat has publicly confirmed now they are exploring a possible x86-64-v3 requirement for next year's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10...

Wine Developers Working To Get 1997 Era "Nuclear Strike" Game Working On Linux In 2024

Phoronix - Wed, 01/03/2024 - 19:25
While Wine (and downstreams like Valve's Proton) allow many newer Windows games and applications to run very well on modern Linux systems even when it comes to recent Direct3D 12 games and the like, sometimes it's the older games/apps that can be more of a headache to workaround bugs in the software and other aging relics. One of the latest issues leading to an upstream Linux kernel discussion is over the game Nuclear Strike first published in 1997 for Microsoft Windows 98 in trying to get it running with Wine on Linux...

Glibc Updated For Recent Linux CET Shadow Stack Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/03/2024 - 19:00
With Linux 6.6, the mainline kernel finally landed support for Shadow Stack on Intel/AMD CPUs that was originally rolled out as part of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) for better fending off ROP attacks. The GNU C Library "glibc" was recently updated with some changes around the CET / Shadow Stack support...

Intel Media Driver 2023Q4 Improves Video Acceleration For Meteor Lake & Arrow Lake

Phoronix - Wed, 01/03/2024 - 18:56
Overnight Intel released their newest quarterly updates to their Intel Media Driver providing Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support on Linux systems as well as their updated oneVPL video processing library that is part of their oneAPI software stack and leveraging the Intel Media Driver...

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