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      AmpereOne Sees Last Minute Compiler Tuning Ahead Of GCC 13

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March, 2023

    Going back to late 2021 was the initial GCC compiler patch for "Ampere-1" for that next-gen AArch64 server processor while last year this successor to Ampere Altra (Max) was formally announced under the AmpereOne brand. That initial compiler support appeared in GCC 12 while ahead of the GCC 13 release in the coming weeks has been some last minute tuning for the AmpereOne cost table...
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      Linux 6.4 Device Mapper To See Improved Concurrent I/O Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March, 2023

    Thanks to forthcoming work out of Red Hat, the Linux 6.4 Device Mapper (DM) code is expected to see some optimization work that can significantly benefit concurrent I/O performance... In one case at least acquiring buffers now about 25 times faster...
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      XWayland Lands Fix For At Least One Game Hanging It & Causing 100% CPU Usage

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March, 2023

    While XWayland is in fairly good shape for enjoying both native and emulated games relying on X11 to run atop Wayland compositors for Linux gaming, occasionally different peculiar issues are uncovered. The most recent issue analyzed and addressed in XWayland Git is over the game Resident Evil 6 causing XWayland to hang and consume 100% of the CPU resources on launching that title...
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      OBS Studio Lands AV1 & HEVC RTMP Streaming Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March, 2023

    In time for OBS Studio 29.1, the Veovera Software Organization non-profit has contributed support for AV1 and HEVC streaming via RTMP so that gamers and other creators can stream their content to the YouTube RTMP server using these newer video formats...
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      FreeBSD 13.2-RC5 Released With One Last Fix

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March, 2023

    FreeBSD 13.2-RC4 was released this weekend while it's already been replaced by FreeBSD 13.2-RC5 to land one more fix prior to making the final release preparations on this next stable update to this BSD operating system...
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      Linux 6.3-rc4 Released: "Looking Pretty Normal"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 March, 2023

    Linus Torvalds just announced the release of Linux 6.3-rc4 as we reach around the half-way point of the Linux 6.3 kernel's development cycle...
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      Mesa 23.0.1 Released With Many Fixes For Intel / AMD / Zink

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 March, 2023

    It's been one month since the release of Mesa 23.0 while it's finally been succeeded by Mesa 23.0.1 as the first point release containing a wide variety of bug fixes throughout this ecosystem of open-source 3D graphics drivers...
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      OpenMandriva ROME 23.03 Released With Linux 6.2 + KDE Plasma 5.27 Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 March, 2023

    OpenMandriva ROME 23.03 has been released as the "rolling release" flavor of this Linux distribution whose roots trace back to the beautiful days of Mandrake Linux...
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      Linux Will Stop Randomizing Per-CPU Entry Area When KASLR Is Not Active

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 March, 2023

    With the Linux 6.2 release kernel developers addressed "a tasty target for attackers" after it was realized that the per-CPU entry data was not being randomized, even in the presence of Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR). The per-CPU entry area randomization has been present since Linux 6.3 but then was realized it's being activated even if KASLR was disabled, so now that is changing to avoid possible confusion...