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Valve Contributes OpenVR Video Driver To SDL
Merged to upstream SDL today is an OpenVR video driver that was developed at Valve Software...
2024-10-18 06:14
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) is today celebrating its second anniversary for "empowering public digital infrastructure." In the past two years it has invested more than €23 million (about $24.94M USD) into sixty open technologies...
2024-10-18 06:07
Ardour 8.10 Open-Source DAW Released with Fixes for New Major Issues
Ardour 8.10 open-source digital audio workstation is now available for download with various bug fixes and minor improvements. Here's what's changed in this release! The post Ardour 8.10 Open-Source DAW Released with Fixes for New Major Issues appeared...
2024-10-17 23:58
Microsoft Open-Sources Rust-Written OpenHCL For Running Confidential Intel/AMD VMs
Microsoft announced today the new and now open-source OpenHCL paravisor for the virtualization stack for enabling Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) with this Rust-written software stack. This effort by Microsoft ha...
2024-10-17 20:28
Meet our EDU team at EDUCAUSE 2024
We’re excited to announce our participation in EDUCAUSE 2024.
2024-10-17 17:57
Intel NPU Driver Being Updated To Handle Larger AI Workloads
Following the recent patch work for enabling the Intel 5th Gen NPU premiering with Panther Lake, a new patch series posted today brings a number of improvements for this Intel neural processing unit driver -- including the ability to handle larger work...
2024-10-17 16:54
VirtualBox 7.1.4 Readies Linux Kernel 6.12 Support + More
Oracle has released the second maintenance update for the latest VirtualBox 7.1 series. VirtualBox 7.1.4 includes a small set of improvements, bug fixes, and stability enhancements to this open-source, cross-platform virtualisation tool, though new maj...
2024-10-17 14:44
Exploring The Zen 5 SMT Performance With The AMD EPYC 9755 "Turin" CPU
Continuing on with the testing around the AMD EPYC 9005 series "Turin" processors, today is a look at the Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) performance impact for Turin while using the AMD EPYC 9755 as the highest-end "Turin Classic" processor with 12...
2024-10-17 13:38
PyTorch 2.5 Released With Improved Intel GPU Support
PyTorch 2.5 is out today as the latest major update to this widely-used machine learning library...
2024-10-17 12:58
Why is Ubuntu Linux the leading choice to replace CentOS for financial services?
Financial services are powered by technology. The customer experience is increasingly driven by data, with tailoring of products and services to reflect individual behaviors and preferences. All of this rests on a foundation of secure, stable technolog...
2024-10-17 10:28
Red Hat Engineer Nikita Popov Now The Lead Maintainer For LLVM
Following a proposal that began last month, Red Hat engineer Nikita Popov was nominated to become the new lead maintainer for LLVM. Following unaminous approval, as of last week in LLVM Git he's been appointed the official lead maintainer for this crit...
2024-10-17 10:27
Linux 6.13 To Introduce Intel 5th Gen NPU Support For Panther Lake
Earlier this month I wrote about Intel's Linux software engineers posting patches adding 5th Gen NPU support to the IVPU accelerator driver for that updated neural processing unit to be found with next-gen Panther Lake processors. Those 5th Gen NPU dri...
2024-10-17 08:50
The Maturing State Of Rusticl For Rust-Based OpenCL Within Mesa
Karol Herbst of Red Hat presented in Montreal last week at the X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC 2024) on the current state of Rusticl as the Rust-written OpenCL implementation for Gallium3D drivers within Mesa...
2024-10-17 06:58
AMD Working On GPU Compute Virtualization Support With ROCm/HIP For VMs
Last week at XDC 2024 in Montreal was a status update on AMD's GPU compute virtualization support around their open-source Linux GPU driver and ROCm compute stack...
2024-10-17 06:46
OGRE-Next 3.0 Released For This Open-Source 3D Engine
OGRE-Next 3.0 has debuted this week as the newest version of the Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine Next Generation for serving as an open-source 3D graphics rendering engine...
2024-10-17 06:30
Linux Foundation Newsletter: October 2024
The October LF newsletter is packed with updates about can’t-miss events, learning opportunities , research updates, and more! Take a look at the highlights, mark your calendars, and don’t forget to register for the upcoming events!
2024-10-16 17:00
AMD Releases AOMP 20.0-0 For Radeon/Instinct Compiler Offloading
Following last week's release of the LLVM/Clang-downstream AOCC 5.0 for optimized compiler support extended to Zen 5 CPUs, the GPU side of the house at AMD this week released AOMP 20.0-0 as their LLVM/Clang downstream focused on GPU device offloading...
2024-10-16 16:30
Qualcomm Announces Mesa VCL Driver For OpenCL Acceleration Within VMs
Qualcomm engineers have developed VCL as a new open-source OpenCL driver for use with VirtIO-GPU for providing OpenCL hardware acceleration within virtual machines...
2024-10-16 14:01
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Demonstrated On Windows
Last week at the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC2024) in Montreal there was a talk showcasing Mesa's open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver running atop Windows 11...
2024-10-16 13:11
Intel Lunar Lake vs. AMD Strix Point Platform Profile Performance Comparison
For those that have been eager to see more Intel Core Ultra Series 200V Lunar Lake Linux testing, here is the latest installment of testing as well as an update from Intel following my Lunar Lake Linux testing recent reports. Today's article is looking...
2024-10-16 11:30