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systemd 253 Released With Ukify Tool, systemd-cryptenroll Unlocking Via FIDO2 Tokens

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 February, 2023

After going through several release candidates the past few weeks, systemd 253 has officially shipped today as the newest version of this init system and service manager for Linux systems...

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Ubuntu 23.04 & Debian Prepare For Updated GNOME Triple Buffering Optimization

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 February, 2023

For the past few years Ubuntu developer Daniel van Vugt at Canonical has been working on dynamic triple buffering support for the GNOME desktop so that it will switch from double to triple buffering when the GPU is running behind in order to ultimately ramp up the GPU clock speeds / performance state in order to get back to delivering a fluid desktop experience. These triple buffering patches still haven't been upstreamed as of the GNOME 44 release due out next month, but the patches continue to be carried within Debian and Ubuntu among other distributions. An updated version of the code is now on the way to Debian and for April's Ubuntu 23.04 release...

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TUXEOD OS 2 Being Prepared With Linux 6.0, Updated KDE Desktop & More

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 February, 2023

Bavarian Linux computer vendor TUXEDO Computers last year introduced TUXEDO OS as their tailored Linux distribution built atop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. TUXEDO OS was delivering some performance improvements over stock (K)Ubuntu 22.04, ships with TUXEDO's configuration utilities by default, and other refinements to this desktop OS using the KDE Plasma desktop by default. The team in Augsburg is now preparing to ship TUXEDO OS 2 in the near future while this week they made available a public test snapshot.

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New Driver Aims To Improve MSI Laptop Support On Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 February, 2023

A driver submitted for review that hopes to be included upstream in the Linux kernel enhances support for MSI laptops under Linux with more features being enabled...

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Linux Looks To Retire Itanium/IA64 Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 February, 2023

It's been many years since Intel Itanium processors made a convincing story and faced a slow demise over the past decade. While the last of the Itanium 9700 "Kittson" processors shipped in 2021, just two years later now the Linux kernel is already looking at possibly seeing its IA-64 support removed over having no maintainers or apparent users...

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Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Adds More Desktop Code, Enables WireGuard & Boots systemd-oomd

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 February, 2023

Microsoft on Tuesday released CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230208 as the latest version of their in-house public Linux distribution that serves a variety of purposes from the cloud down to the Windows Subsystem for Linux...

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Intel Posts Updated CPU Microcode For Two More SGX Vulnerabilities, Privilege Escalation Bug

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 February, 2023

Patch Tuesday brought AMD disclosing a Ryzen Master security issue on Windows and the Cross-Thread Return Address Predictions bug requiring new handling by Linux's KVM. Over on the Intel side they have disclosed nearly three dozen new issues and as a result also published new Linux CPU microcode files for their recent processors to address the disclosures...

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Linux Fix Coming For Recent Stuttering On AMD Ryzen Due To fTPM RNG

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 February, 2023

Last year AMD issued an advisory around "intermittent system stutter" when engaging the Firmware Trusted Platform Module "fTPM" with newer Ryzen systems running Windows 10 and Windows 11. While at first this only manifested on Windows, with Linux 6.1+ enabling the AMD fTPM RNG by default when present, this system stuttering issue has begun affecting Linux users too...

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dav1d 1.1 Released With More AVX-512 Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 February, 2023

Yet another prominent open-source software release for Valentine's Day today is... dav1d v1.1! This leading open-source AV1 video decoder is out with its first major update in nearly one year and comes with more AVX-512 tuning as well as more work on Arm NEON optimizations...

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