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This week I and many other major Plasma contributors are are at Akademy, planning the future and having many fruitful in-person discussions! As a result, probably next week’s post will be a bit light. This week though, lots of pre-Akademy changes got merged, most of them bug-fixes and performance improvements scheduled for Plasma 6.2. We […]
This week in Plasma: Stabilization for 6.2 -
Completely supports Kernel 6.10 and early phase of 6.11.
It also provides support for FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE and newer.
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To the above responded Ed Maste:
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“Firefox Labs currently lets you enable an AI chatbot, an auto-open on tab switch feature for Picture-in-Picture, support for Service Workers in the Debugger panel, and an address bar feature that shows results during IME (Input Method Editor) composition.”
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It was released on October 11, 1999!
NVIDIA’s GeForce 256 had 32MB of VRAM on a 128-bit memory bus with up to 4.6GB/sec of memory bandwidth, while the flagship GeForce RTX 4090 has 24GB of VRAM on a 384-bit memory bus with up to 1008GB/sec (1TB/sec+).
The GeForce 256 had a 50W TDP, while the GeForce RTX 4090 has a 450W+ TDP.
This means that the GPU transistor count between the GeForce 256 and GeForce RTX 4090 is a difference of 3300x while the VRAM capacity has blown up by 768,000x.
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The weather widget has now precipitation probability from BBC
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“FreeBSD 13.4 has a number of minor updates coming to the operating system. There are several driver updates like to the Intel ICE Ethernet network drvier and IRDRMA drivers. The LLVM/Clang compiler has been updated to LLVM 18.1.5 and there are also a number of other package updates such as SQLite 3.46 and OpenSSH 9.7p1. The in-progress FreeBSD 13.4 release notes can be found on FreeBSD.org.
For today’s FreeBSD 13.4-RC1 weekly development release, there is now a modernized set of packages on the DVD ISOs, a crash fix for “tail -F”, fixes for per-user ZFS dataset handling within the adduser command, and other fixes.“
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