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GNOME Mutter Lands Improved GPU Selection Logic For Laptops

Merged today to GNOME's Mutter compositor is improved logic for selecting the graphics processor to treat as the primary one within multi-GPU laptops...

2024-11-12 09:30

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Red Hat Acquiring Neural Magic To Bolster Open-Source AI Offerings

Red Hat announced today they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Neural Magic, an AI software company behind the likes of DeepSparse and nm-vllm...

2024-11-12 08:26

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Mesa 25.0 Clover OpenCL Drops Support For NIR Drivers

As part of the transition to eventually drop the long dormant Clover OpenCL state tracker from Mesa's Gallium3D codebase in favor of the modern OpenCL Rusticl Rust-written driver, Mesa 25.0 has ended Clover support for NIR-based drivers...

2024-11-12 07:00

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AMD's Ninth Iteration Of Their XDNA Linux Driver Posted For Ryzen AI

Yesterday brought the eighth and ninth iteration of the AMD XDNA Linux kernel driver posted for review for enabling the Ryzen AI branded NPUs found in their recent SoCs...

2024-11-12 06:30

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Red Hat & Intel Developing "Climatik" For Power Capping AI In The Data Center

Red Hat in cooperation with Intel, Bloomberg and IBM has been developing the Climatik open-source project as a means of power capping AI use within the data center for better energy efficiency and sustainability...

2024-11-12 06:15

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GCC 15 Lands New Optimization For AMD Zen 4 & Zen 5 CPUs

Merged today for the upcoming GCC 15 stable release is a new "X86_TUNE_AVX512_TWO_EPILOGUES" tuning optimization that is enabled by default for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors...

2024-11-12 05:59

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DXVK 2.5 Brings Memory Management Rewrite & Other Improvements

DXVK 2.5 was just released as the newest version of this open-source project implementing Direct3D APIs atop the Vulkan API for better handling of Windows games on Linux systems as used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) software...

2024-11-11 14:08

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Memtest86+ 7.20 Adds Support For Intel Arrow Lake & AMD Zen 5

Memtet86+ 7.0 debuted back in January while now as we approach the end of 2024, Memtest86+ 7.20 is now available as the latest significant update to this open-source memory tester commonly used on Intel and AMD systems...

2024-11-11 13:55

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Fedora Stakeholders Debate Concerns Over "Karma" Term For Their Updates System

The latest terminology within the Fedora camp causing concern is "karma" that's long been used for conveying feedback around package updates with their Bodhi software used for gating Fedora Linux package updates...

2024-11-11 13:11

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Microsoft Announces Open-Source Hyperlight For Embedded VMM Within Linux/Windows Apps

Microsoft last month announced the open-source Rust-written OpenHCL for running confidential Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP virtual machines. Today Microsoft is announcing another interesting open-source, Rust-based project in the virtualization space: Hype...

2024-11-11 10:10

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Basic Support For Many Pre-M1 Apple Devices Coming To Linux 6.13

While not as exciting as if it were Apple M3/M4 device support hitting the upstream mainline Linux kernel, but for those with some older Apple (pre-M1) devices around, support for a number of older SoCs and boards is set to arrive with the upcoming Lin...

2024-11-11 09:52

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Intel Adapting Energy Aware Scheduling "EAS" To P-State Driver For Lunar Lake

As another effort for boosting the energy efficiency and behavior of Intel Core platforms with a mix of energy efficient "E" and performance "P" cores, a set of patches were posted Friday night for adapting Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) to the Intel P-...

2024-11-11 09:15

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Linux 6.13 Rust Support Allowing For In-Place Modules

Set to be merged during the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window is support with the Rust programming language infrastructure for allowing in-place kernel modules...

2024-11-11 06:52

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Intel Diamond Rapids "-march=diamondrapids" Merged Into GCC 15

The Intel Diamond Rapids target has been merged in time for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to allow for "-march=diamondrapids" targeting for leveraging the array of new CPU ISA additions found with these next-gen Xeon processors...

2024-11-11 06:35

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Servo Browser Engine Seeing Many Performance Optimizations & SubtleCrypto API

The Rust-written Servo browser web layout engine project is out with its October 2024 status update that provides insight to their development activities the past several weeks...

2024-11-11 06:22

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PHPStan 2.0 Released For Leading PHP Static Analyzer

PHPStan 2.0 is out today as what is the best open-source static analyzer for the PHP programming language...

2024-11-11 06:10

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Linux 6.12-rc7 Released: Linux 6.12 Stable On Track For Release Next Sunday

Linus Torvalds just christened the Linux 6.12-rc7 kernel today for what will hopefully be the last release candidate before declaring Linux 6.12 stable next week Sunday...

2024-11-10 17:36

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Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Pulls In THP Shrinker & AMD Cache Optimizer

The Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution has issued its November 2024 media refresh. Notable this time are pulling a few performance-related patches into its kernel build...

2024-11-10 12:24

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Linux Optimization Patches Significantly Speed-Up Debuggers Using /proc/kcore

A set of Linux kernel patches posted on Friday by Meta/Facebook provide for sizable performance optimizations for applications leveraging /proc/kcore such as for debuggers...

2024-11-10 09:00

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Debcow Optimizing Debian Packages For Copy-On-Write File-Systems

Debcow is an experimental implementation of deploying Debian packages on copy-on-write file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs. Debcow adapts DPKG to use reflinks for installing packages. With reflinking to the file contents from the Debian package archiv...

2024-11-10 08:00

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