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OpenBSD 7.6 Released With AVX-512, Initial Support For Snapdragon X Elite SoCs

([BSD] 5 Hours Ago OpenBSD 7.6)


OpenBSD 7.6 is out this evening as another major step forward for this BSD operating system with enhanced hardware support, security improvements, updating various user-space software, and enabling other kernel enhancements.

There are a ton of changes to find with the just-released OpenBSD 7.6. Some of the new OpenBSD 7.6 features include:

- OpenBSD 7.6 provides initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite (X1E80100) SoCs. The 7.6 release also has initial Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge boot support in ACPI mode with OpenBSD 7.6.

- ARM64 has additional CPU security mitigations with Spectre-V4 now in place on ARM64 and adding Spectre-BHB for Cortex-A57 cores.

- OpenBSD 7.6 on AMD64 has finally implemented support for AVX-512.

- Mitigating the Intel Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability ib conjunction with updated CPU microcode.

- OpenBSD 7.6 on RISC-V now supports the Milk-V Pioneer board.

- Work has begun for supporting S0 sleep states on OpenBSD as part of working toward suspend-to-idle on AMD64 systems.

- Various SMP kernel improvements.

- Support for Meteor Lake Arc Graphics with the Intel DRM driver and updating their Linux-ported DRM driver code against the Linux 6.6.52 state.

- AMD SEV support within VMM.

- Imported libva for VA-API support for video acceleration.

- Various network driver improvements.

- Many package updates and dozens of other improvements throughout.

Downloads and more details on the OpenBSD 7.6 release via [1]OpenBSD.org .



[1] https://www.openbsd.org/76.html


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Brief History Of Linux (#15)
Too many hyphens: Traf-O-Data and Micro-soft

Bill Gates and Paul Allen attended an exclusive private school in Seattle.
In 1968, after raising $3,000 from a yard sale, they gained access to a
timeshare computer and became addicted. After depleting their money
learning BASIC and playing Solitaire, they convinced a company to give
them free computer time in exchange for reporting bugs -- ironically, an
early form of Open Source development!

The two then founded a small company called Traf-O-Data that collected and
analyzed traffic counts for municipalities using a crude device based on
the Intel "Pretanium" 8008 CPU. They had some success at first, but ran
into problems when they were unable to deliver their much hyped
next-generation device called "TrafficX". An engineer is quoted as saying
that "Traf-O-Data is the local leader in vaporware", the first documented
usage of the term that has come to be synonymous with Bill Gates.

Soon thereafter, the two developed their own BASIC interpreter, and sold
it to MITS for their new Altair computer. April 4, 1975 is the fateful day
that Micro-soft was founded in Albuquerque, NM as a language vendor.