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      Intel ISPC 1.21 Released With Meteor Lake Xe-LPG Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 August, 2023

    Intel ISPC 1.21 is now available as the newest feature update to this Implicit SPMD Program Compiler for a C language variant focused on single program, multiple data (SPMD) programming for exploiting the full potential of modern CPUs and GPUs...
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      FreeBSD 14 Alpha 2 Available For Testing - The Last Series For 32-bit Platforms

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 August, 2023

    Last week the FreeBSD 14 alpha phase kicked off and available today is the second weekly alpha release for this upcoming major BSD operating system update...
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      Orange Pi 5 Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 August, 2023

    The DeviceTree additions to allow the Orange Pi 5 64-bit ARM single board computer (SBC) to work on the upstream Linux kernel are working their way closer to mainline...
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      AMD Inception "SRSO" Mitigation Cleanup & Fixes Head To Linux 6.5-rc7

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 August, 2023

    Earlier this month the AMD Inception vulnerability was disclosed and quickly mitigated within the mainline Linux kernel and back-ported to the stable kernels. In the rush to get the code merged and the mitigation being under embargo until the disclosure date, some bugs and clean-ups with the mitigation code were discovered. That revised code was now submitted today for merging ahead of the Linux 6.5-rc7 kernel release this weekend...
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      KDE Plasma 6 Default Behavior Is Now Double-Click For Opening Files/Folders

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 August, 2023

    Nate Graham is out with his weekly KDE development summary to highlight all of the interesting changes to this open-source desktop environment with Plasma 6 development continuing at full-speed ahead...
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      Wine 8.14 Released Following Summer Holiday

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 August, 2023

    It's been nearly one month since Wine 8.13 was released while today marked the debut of the Wine 8.14 development milestone...
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      Linux 6.6 To Support Rumble / Force Feedback On Google Stadia Controllers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 August, 2023

    For those that happen to have a Google Stadia gaming controller from the days of Google's cloud gaming service, the Linux 6.6 kernel is adding a new driver to enable force feedback (rumble) support with these controllers...
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      AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Windows 11 vs. Linux CPU Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 August, 2023

    Over the past month I've been delivering a number of Linux laptop tests with the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U for that Zen 4 "Phoenix" SoC within an Acer Swift Edge 16. One of the requests that has come up with my ongoing testing has been how well the default Microsoft Windows 11 installation compares to loading up Linux on this 8-core AMD Zen 4 laptop. Well, in this article is a look at the Linux performance compared to Windows 11, including when making use of the Linux 6.5 development kernel where AMD P-State is now the default and also for seeing what workloads are impacted by the recent AMD Inception vulnerability.
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      Cryptsetup Lands Support For OPAL Self Encrypting Drives

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 August, 2023

    Linux 6.4 or newer paired with the latest cryptsetup development code has landed support for the OPAL specification for self-encrypting drives...