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Desktop Motherboards Continue Playing Catch-Up For Linux Monitoring Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January, 2025

The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel. As happens with most kernel releases, there are a number of already-launched desktop motherboards beginning to see working sensor monitoring support under Linux...

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Microsoft Announces Open-Source DocumentDB NoSQL Database

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January, 2025

In a blog post dated for this past Thursday but only being made public on Sunday night, Microsoft issued an announcement open-sourcing their new NoSQL database... Where it gets weirder is that it's named DocumentDB. Amazon also has a database offering named DocumentDB albeit proprietary...

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Linux 6.14 To Switch From SHA1 To SHA512 For Module Signing By Default

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January, 2025

While many Linux distribution vendor kernels are already using SHA-512 for signing modules by default rather than the default SHA-1, the upstream Linux 6.14 kernel is also now switching the default over to using SHA-512 for better security...

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ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M Cooler For Ampere Altra 4U Servers/Workstations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January, 2025

For those looking for a heatsink fan to cool a custom build of an Ampere Altra / Altra Max server or workstation, the ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M ends up being a very potent option that offers similar performance to more expensive Ampere Altra heatsinks while providing similar performance.

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AMD Squeezes In More RDNA4 Changes For Linux 6.14 - Enables Cleaner Shader On GFX12

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January, 2025

While the main feature pull of new and updated kernel graphics/accelerator drivers were merged already for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window, an additional set of AMDGPU changes were sent out this week for squeezing into this next kernel release...

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Linux Patches Allow Sharing PTEs Between Processes - Can Mean Significant RAM Savings

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January, 2025

A set of patches being worked on by Oracle engineers allow for optionally sharing page table entries (PTEs) between processes. For some workloads this can equate to very significant memory savings...

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Mesa 25.0 Gets A New Vulkan Layer For Limiting The Amount Of Reported vRAM

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January, 2025

A half-year-old merge request from Igalia's Karmjit Mahil has been merged for Mesa 25.0 that is a Vulkan layer allowing for optionally limiting the amount of video memory reported to games/applications...

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New Sound Hardware Supported By The Linux 6.14 Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January, 2025

Merged this week for the Linux 6.14 kernel were the various sound/audio driver updates. In addition to core API enhancements for better supporting the MIDI 2.0 specification, there is also support for some new audio hardware...

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Linux 6.14 Adds ROCEv2 Support For The Alibaba Cloud

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January, 2025

The RDMA subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel with a light set of changes overall and the most significant being support for the ROCEv2 protocol within the ERDMA driver...

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