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NetBSD 10.1 Released With Support For More Network Hardware, Better Ampere Altra Support
Building off the release of NetBSD 10.0 that arrived for Easter this year and incorporated a half-decade of work, NetBSD 10.1 is out right before Christmas as the first update to this BSD operating system series...
2024-12-18 19:11
AMD Preps Many Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.14, DRM Panic Support
AMD today sent out a first batch of "new stuff" feature patches to DRM-Next of new code for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of material for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...
2024-12-18 15:29
MemryX MX3 M.2 Module Delivers Nice AI Performance With A Great Software Experience
While there are a growing number of startups offering AI accelerators, many of them are more or less vaporware and the other big challenge even among those actually shipping products is their software stacks are very premature or an outright heaping me...
2024-12-18 11:00
UEFI 2.11 Released With PI 1.9 Bringing LoongArch & RNG Additions
On Tuesday the UEFI Forum released the UEFI 2.11 specification alongside the Platform Initialization (PI) 1.9 specification...
2024-12-18 10:00
EROFS Switches To Buffered I/O For File-Backed Mounts To Speed-Up Container Start Times
Back for the Linux 6.12 kernel EROFS introduced support for file-backed mounts to help with container and sandboxing use-cases. As part of the EROFS "fixes" merged yesterday to the Linux 6.13 kernel, file-backed mounts are now using buffered I/O by def...
2024-12-18 08:49
Linux Looks To Drop Support For IBM Cell Blade Servers
The latest house cleaning of the Linux kernel is looking to drop support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those platforms from the better part of two decades ago with Cell BE processors that also had worked their way into some supercomputers at the time...
2024-12-18 06:47
Intel Linux Graphics Driver To Do A Better Job Of Keeping Track Of Its Engine Busyness
A drm-intel-gt-next pull request was sent in today to DRM-Next of the latest batch of Intel kernel graphics driver updates destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle...
2024-12-18 06:23
SilverStone XED120S-WS Offers Mega Cooling For 4U Intel/AMD Workstations & Servers
A few weeks back I reviewed the SilverStone XE360-SP5 and XE04-SP5 cooling solutions catering to AMD EPYC 9004/9005 Socket SP5 processors. These coolers worked well with 400 Watt EPYC processors and especially the XE360-SP5 all-in-one liquid cooling wa...
2024-12-18 04:00
Lenovo Legion Linux Driver Posted For Handling Power/Performance Settings
A patch posted on Tuesday for the Linux kernel would introduce new Lenovo Legion WMI driver options for supporting Lenovo Legion laptops as well as the Legion Go handheld gaming console to support different power/performance settings...
2024-12-18 02:00
AOMP 20.0-1 GPU Compiler Rebased Against ROCm 6.3, Brings SPIR-V JIT Offloading
AOMP 20.0-1 was released on Tuesday as the newest version of this LLVM/Clang downstream focused on shipping the latest AMD patches around Radeon/Instinct OpenMP accelerator offload support...
2024-12-18 00:00
Linux Patched For Unsafe Xen Behavior Around CPU Speculative Attack Protections
Merged today to the Linux kernel are fixes for two vulnerabilities with the Xen hypervisor. One of them concerns a malicious network backend being able to crash a guest after a suspend/resume cycle of a Linux guest. The other more pressing issue addres...
2024-12-17 16:36
System76 Releases Updated AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop
System76 has been offering AMD-powered Linux laptops for a few years now and before rounding out 2024 they have announced the new Pangolin "Pang15" laptop with an updated SoC, 2K display with 16:10 screen ratio and 120Hz refresh rate, and other refinem...
2024-12-17 14:05
Windows 11 vs. Linux Benchmarks For Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Shows Strengths & Weaknesses
Last week with the availability of the Intel Arc B-Series Battlemage graphics cards I ran benchmarks looking at the GPU compute performance, Linux gaming benchmarks, and also the workstation graphics capabilities. The Intel Arc B580 graphics showed som...
2024-12-17 11:03
Fedora Asahi Remix 41 Now Ready For Apple Silicon Devices
Fedora Asahi Remix 41 as the re-base of the Asahi Linux work for Apple Silicon devices atop the recently released Fedora 41 is now ready for Apple device users...
2024-12-17 10:09
LLVM Merges TySan As Sanitizer For Type-Based Aliasing Violations
The LLVM compiler stack offers a number of sanitizers like the AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, and others for detecting different coding issues like data races, memory addressing issues, use of uninitialized memory, and m...
2024-12-17 09:56
NVIDIA Launches $249 "Gen AI Supercomputer" With Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit
NVIDIA today announced the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit as their "most affordable generative AI Supercomputer" with this upgraded Jetson Nano offering 1.7x better GenAI performance while also costing less than its predecessor. This new product ...
2024-12-17 09:00
Linux 6.1 LTS Kernel To Receive An Extra Year Of Support
Greg Kroah-Hartman has decided to extend the Linux 6.1 LTS planned lifespan from four to five years...
2024-12-17 06:41
Fedora Atomic Desktops For POWER PPC64LE To End Due To Finding No Users
While Fedora is often times eager to introduce new spins and other variants as well as supporting a comprehensive set of CPU architectures, it doesn't always drive new users. In the case of atomic versions of Fedora Linux for desktop use on POWER hardw...
2024-12-17 06:29
Intel IFS For Clearwater Forest & VSEC For Panther Lake Land In Linux 6.13
Merged yesterday as part of "fixes" to the Linux 6.13 were new Intel support additions for their next-generation Core Ultra and Xeon processors...
2024-12-17 06:14
Qt 6.9 Beta Released With New Toolkit Features
Qt 6.9 beta is out today as the first test release for this updated Qt6 toolkit...
2024-12-17 05:56