Recent content by XiGMAKiD

"The big new feature of dav1d 1.0 is support for AVX-512 to complement the project's existing code paths for CPU capabilities ranging from SSE2 up through AVX2." Covering wide range of CPUs from old to latest, a very nice project

Bug reports

"...Valve continues with their upstream contributions to Mesa and other open-source components to benefit the entire Linux ecosystem,. ..and the Steam Deck is the culmination of all their exciting work over the past several years." I hope Valve play their cards well with their Deck

"...the getrandom() system call may be a hell of a lot faster with the new kernel. ..seeing an 8450% improvement with the stress-ng getrandom() benchmark." Getting random stuff done at breakneck speed

"A new change proposal was submitted this past week for splitting Pkexec..." Reducing attack surface is a good idea

"Over the course of the past year GRUB developers dealt with BootHole and BootHole2 security fixes, working out LUKS2 support, many cryptodisk and other LUKS(2) changes, updating miniLZO support, and a variety of other updates." A good chunk of updates on GRUB

Tim Sweeney strikes again, video by a guy from Austria

"KDE Plasma 5.24 is... their new Long-Term Support (LTS) release. ..primary monitor designation support, window handling improvements, supporting higher bit depths, and many other improvements." Another update for KDE

"...focused on improving AMD client platforms on Linux, they are now hiring again.. ..for an AMD Client Linux Systems Engineer..." TPU geniuses might want to check this out

"Intel's open-source driver engineers have been working on mesh shader support for months while hitting Mesa 22.0-devel today were the changes to provide the working albeit experimental coverage." Intel's getting up to speed with current technology

"AMD open-source engineers sent out a request for comments on a new kernel feature called "PAN".. ..an adaptive algorithm calculating the AutoNUMA scan period. ..The important part for end-users / AMD EPYC customers..." This one is for you server room dweller

Buying 4GB card in 2022 feels wrong but since my gaming needs is more casual nowadays 4GB is okay I guess

"...developers have been working on a Rust-based Coreutils.. ..use this modern programming language priding itself on memory safety and security." A good chunk of challenge, godspeed developers

"New to Wayland Protocols 1.25 is the session-lock-v1 protocol being experimental and responsible to handle session locking. ..is better engineered and this new protocol will hopefully prove satisfactory..." Screen locking is always a good preventive measure

"With Archinstall 2.3.1 it has changed the default Btrfs sub-volume layout to work better with Snapper/Timeshift, there is now a Pipewire application profile added, various installer infrastructure improvements, and more." Another progress from my favourite distro