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      OpenBSD Finally Adds Guided Disk Encryption To Its Installer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 March, 2023

    Full disk encryption is quite important in today's computing environment while some operating systems still sadly don't provide an easy and streamlined manner of setting up an encrypted disk at install-time. Thankfully with the next release of OpenBSD, they are introducing a guided disk encryption option to their installer...
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      Lenovo Begins Supporting LinuxBoot Firmware With ByteDance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 March, 2023

    This week TikTok-owner ByteDance hosted the CloudFW Open System Firmware Symposium to talk up their open-source firmware work, showcase their industry partnerships, and more. One interesting takeaway is that thanks to the weight of ByteDance, Lenovo is now supporting LinuxBoot in some capacity...
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      Embree 4.0.1 Released With Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 March, 2023

    Embree 4.0.1 is out with a few changes to note for this open-source high performance ray-tracing library for CPUs and GPUs...
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      Chrome 112 Beta Released With CSS Nesting, WebAssembly Tail Call

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 March, 2023

    Chrome 112 beta is now available for testing as the next step forward for Google's web browser...
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      AMD Releases AOMP 17.0-0 For Latest Radeon OpenMP Offloading Compiler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 March, 2023

    On Thursday AMD engineers released AOMP 17.0-0 as the newest version of their LLVM/Clang downstream compiler that carries their latest development patches around Radeon/Instinct OpenMP GPU/accelerator offloading support...
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      Hangover 0.8.3 Released For Enjoying Windows x86/x86_64 Apps/Games On Linux ARM64

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March, 2023

    Hangover 0.8.3 is now available as the newest version for this open-source project started by several Wine developers to ease the pathway for running Windows x86/x86_64 games and applications on Linux under AArch64 (64-bit Arm) as well as other possible architectures like POWER9 and RISC-V...
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      The Technical Workloads Where AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D/7950X3D CPUs Are Excellent

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March, 2023

    While the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D and Ryzen 9 7950X3D are promoted as great "gaming processors", these new Zen 4 desktop CPUs with 3D V-Cache also have great capabilities for various technical computing workloads thanks to the hefty cache size. In prior articles I've looked at the Ryzen 9 7900X3D/7950X3D in around 400 workloads on Linux while in this article I am looking more closely at these technical computing areas where these AMD Zen 4 3D V-Cache processors show the most strength and value outside of gaming.
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      TikTok Owner Bytedance Goes Big On Open-Source Firmware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March, 2023

    TikTok owner Bytedance this week hosted their CloudFW Open System Firmware Symposium in Beijing where they celebrated the launch of CloudFW 2.0 as they implement Coreboot to replace UEFI...
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      PipeWire 0.3.67 Fixes Stuttering For Some Bluetooth Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March, 2023

    PipeWire 0.3.67 is now available as the latest version of this now widely used server by the Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams as an alternative to PulseAudio and JACK on the audio side...