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systemd OOMD Maturing Nicely, Adds Support For User Services

Phoronix | Sept. 23, 2021, midnight | Original
Systemd-oomd as the out-of-memory daemon originally developed by Facebook has been maturing nicely since being merged last year and then its most notable deployment to date has been with Fedora 34's debut earlier this year. Anita Zhang of Facebook provided an update today on the systemd-oomd effort.

During the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC2021) today was this update by Anita on systemd-oomd. Systemd-oomd being used by default in Fedora 34 has been one of the big
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Researchers Find Malware Hiding in Windows Subsystem for Linux

Tom's Hardware | Sept. 17, 2021, 12:10 p.m. | Original
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Black Lotus Labs revealed on Thursday that it's discovered new malware that uses the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to avoid being detected by security tools.

WSL debuted in 2016 alongside the Windows 10 Anniversary Update as a way to access GNU and Linux tools without having to boot into a different operating system. It didn't originally provide true access to the Linux kernel—it used a compatible kernel developed by Microsoft—but that changed when WSL 2 arrived in

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Habana Labs Opens Up The Code To Their AI Compiler, SynapseAI Core

Phoronix | Sept. 10, 2021, 6 a.m. | Original
Intel-owned Habana Labs now has the most open software stack among AI accelerators! While Habana Labs has long provided an open-source, upstream kernel driver for their Gaudi AI training and Goya AI inference accelerators, the user-space portions including their code compiler and run-time library have been closed-source. This has been a thorn for upstream kernel developers and their standards, but now Habana Labs has open-sourced their user-space components too.

Habana Labs has now open-sourced their Tensor Processing Core
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Facebook Opens Up CacheLib As Their New Caching Engine

Phoronix | Sept. 8, 2021, 6:22 a.m. | Original
Facebook last week formally announced CacheLib as their new open-source caching engine designed for web scale services and to make for effective non-volatile memory caching to offset the increasing costs of DRAM.

CacheLib's development was motivated in part by increasing prices around system memory. The Facebook announcement noted, " As traditional dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) caches become more expensive and require more power to scale, companies like Facebook are exploring hardware choices such as non-volatile memory (NVM) drives to augment their caching
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AMD ROCm 4.3.1 Released With RHEL 8.4 + SLES 15 SP3 Support

Phoronix | Aug. 28, 2021, midnight | Original
ROCm 4.3 released at the start of August with support for HMM memory allocations, support for indirect function calls and C++ virtual functions with the ROCm compiler, improved data center tool integration, better rocBLAS performance, and a range of other improvements. In approaching the end of August, ROCm 4.3.1 is now available.

ROCm 4.3.1 isn't nearly as big as the rather significant ROCm 4.3 release that opened the month. With ROCm 4.3.1
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OpenShot 2.6 Video Editor Released With Computer Vision + AI Effects

Phoronix | Aug. 25, 2021, 1:05 p.m. | Original
OpenShot 2.6 has been released as the newest version of this non-linear open-source video editing system for Linux.

OpenShot 2.6 adds new computer vision and AI effects, new audio effects, UI improvements, a new transform tool, improved snapping, FFmpeg 4.x support, updated Blender support, better performance and stability, and much more.

Among the computer vision and AI effects with OpenShot 2.6 are around video stabilization, tracking of objects in video, and object detection. New audio
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Intel Releases OSPray Studio 0.8

Phoronix | Aug. 24, 2021, 5:36 a.m. | Original
One year ago to the day Intel announced OSPray Studio as a scene graph application for rendering glTF assets and other 3D models. OSPray Studio is built off their OSPray ray-tracing engine that they've been working on for years. These Intel efforts are all part of their oneAPI initiative and today happens to mark a shiny new feature release.

OSPray Studio 0.8 was released overnight and add support for OSPray's camera motion blur and transformation motion blur for animated glTF scenes, UDIM texture tiling workflow, an
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LibreOffice 7.2 Community Released For This Leading Open-Source Office Suite

Phoronix | Aug. 19, 2021, 7 a.m. | Original
LibreOffice 7.2 Community is out today as the newest version of this widely-used, open-source, cross-platform office suite.

LibreOffice 7.2 Community (yes, their new branding, rather than the former " Personal Edition " attempt) is the latest feature release with much work on improving interoperability with Microsoft Office file formats. In addition to better handling Microsoft Office files like faster opening of DOCX documents, LibreOffice 7.2 Community brings a command pop-up / heads-up display (HUD
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(PR) OWC Announces ArGest Backup Easy Drag And Drop Backup Archival And Restore Solution

TechPowerUp News | Aug. 17, 2021, 9:46 p.m. | Original

OWC, the premier zero-emissions Mac and PC technology company, and a respected provider of Memory, External Drives, SSDs, Mac & PC docking solutions, and performance upgrade kits, announces the availability of the OWC Mercury Pro LTO with complete macOS, Windows, and Linux compatibility plus bundled ArGest Backup software supporting LTFS bulk transfer and delivery, backup, archive, and unique storage options. The OWC Mercury Pro LTO provides an industry-leading data management/storage/transportation/archive strategy.

Monitoring and Evaluation professionals,

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Mesa 21.3 LLVMpipe Enables OpenGL 4.5 Compatibility Profile Support

Phoronix | Aug. 17, 2021, 6:07 a.m. | Original
The LLVMpipe driver providing a generic OpenGL implementation that's CPU-accelerated for Mesa - and more performant than alternatives thanks to LLVM - can now support OpenGL 4.5 compatibility profile contexts.

LLVMpipe has already supported OpenGL 4.6 with core contexts when making use of NIR and all the other improvements in recent time to this Gallium3D driver. Now for any software still relying upon OpenGL compatibility contexts, OpenGL 4.5 compatibility profile support is in place for this software GL driver.

David Airlie of Red Hat
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