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Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 & NH-D9 TR5-SP6 4U Great For Cooling AMD EPYC 8004 "Siena" CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 11/17/2023 - 08:21
Ahead of AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors becoming available, Noctua recently introduced the new NH-U14S TR5-SP6 and NH-D9 TR5-SP6 heatsinks. In addition to working with the Threadripper 7000 series, these CPUs fit as well for Socket SP6 introduced with the new AMD EPYC 8004 "Siena" processors. Here is a look at the cooling performance of these new Noctua TR5-SP6 heatsinks on AMD EPYC.

Open-Source H.264 Video Encode Coming For Allwinner V3/V3s/S3 SoCs

Phoronix - Fri, 11/17/2023 - 05:46
Embedded Linux consulting firm Bootlin has announced they've developed open-source Linux kernel driver support for the H.264 video encoder found with Allwinner V3, V3s, and S3 SoCs...

Linux 6.6 Formally Becomes This Year's LTS Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 11/17/2023 - 01:51
As was expected but now made official: this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel is Linux 6.6...

Uutils 0.0.23 Implements More GNU Coreutils Functionality In Rust

Phoronix - Fri, 11/17/2023 - 01:37
The uutils open-source project continues working on re-implementing the widely-used GNU Coreutils utilities within the Rust programming language for better security and a fresh take on rm, cd, cat, ls, and other commands...

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