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Linux 6.4 Slated To Start Removing Old, Unused & Unmaintained PCMCIA Drivers

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

Queued up ahead of the Linux 6.4 cycle this spring is removing all of the PCMCIA "char" drivers as part of a broader effort to remove PCMCIA socket and card driver code where there is no apparent users remaining...

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Box86 v0.3 & Box64 v0.2.2 Released For Running Linux x86/x86_64 Programs On Arm

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

In addition to this week seeing new releases of FEX-Emu and Hangover for open-source projects aiming to run x86/x86_64 binaries on 64-bit Arm, the Box86 and related Box64 projects are out today with their own feature updates for helping to enable x86 and x86_64 Linux binaries on Arm systems...

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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.