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PhoronixSiliconAMD Posts Linux Patches For Capacity Aware Scheduling On Hybrid CPUs On Saturday a new set of Linux kernel driver patches were posted by AMD for enabling Capacity Aware Scheduling on AMD heterogeneous/hybrid processors...
PhoronixSiliconIBM Talks Up Their New Ability For Handling ARM64 Guest VMs on s390 Hardware One of the biggest surprises this year was IBM collaborating with Arm for "dual architecture" hardware.
PhoronixSiliconAMD ARG "AMD Root Guest" Linux Patches Coming In 2027 A new feature of EPYC 9006 "Venice" server processors that isn't yet brought up in the public Linux software support is AMD Root Guest (ARG).
PhoronixSiliconASUS Ascent QN10 Mini PC Powered By Snapdragon X2 Elite Seeing Linux Support In addition to a number of laptops powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 beginning to see Linux support, there's now a X2 Elite powered mini PC seeing Linux patches too...
PhoronixSiliconRedox OS Gets Golang Working, GIMP Ported & Simplified AI Policy The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system is now out with its October development summary that highlights recent software ports, progress on NUMA, and other enhancements made to this…
PhoronixSiliconBasic Support For The Apple M5 Expected To Land For Linux 7.5 Very basic support for the Apple M5 SoC base model is expected to be merged for the Linux 7.5 kernel now that it's been queued into the "apple-soc/dt-7.5" Git branch...
PhoronixSiliconIntel Begins Linux Kernel Enablement For Coral Rapids & Razor Lake Along with Intel posting initial GCC compiler patches for Coral Rapids and Razor Lake processors, the first Linux kernel patch for these future Intel server and desktop/laptop processors have also…
PhoronixSiliconRugged Emdoor Laptops Beginning To See Improved Linux Support Emdoor that is a leading manufacturer of rugged laptops and tablets used by various industries is beginning to see improved Linux support thanks to a new platform driver being developed...
PhoronixSiliconFreeBSD 15.2 Beta 2 Delivers Updated OpenSSL, Bug Fixes FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 1 debuted last week for this updated operating system bringing improved laptop/desktop hardware support, experimental cross-building of base packages on Linux and macOS, updated…
PhoronixSiliconCloudflare Open Sources Kitesurf: Their Web Browser For AI Agents Earlier this year Cloudflare announced Kitesurf as a stateless web browser for AI agents. After building out its features, they have now made good on their word to open-source it...
PhoronixSiliconAMD openSIL Achieves Its Production Goal With 6th Gen EPYC "Venice" Since 2023 I and many open-source advocates have been very eager for AMD's openSIL project for delivering open-source CPU silicon initialization as a replacement to the traditional AGESA code.
PhoronixSiliconAMD Leverages AI + HRX Loom In Experiment For Quickly Porting 50 LLMs To Client GPUs Following the recent release of HRX Loom v0.1 and leveraging an AI agent workflow, a team at AMD experimented with bringing 50 trending Hugging Face models over to AMD client GPUs.
PhoronixSiliconLinux 7.5 To Include New hwpoison-panic Tool For Intentionally Crashing Your System A new tool expected to be merged to the Linux 7.5 source tree provides a new exercise for the kernel and in the process bringing down the system...
PhoronixSiliconAMD AOCL 6.0 Introduces New RNG Library, Initial Zen 6 CPU Optimizations In addition to AOCC 6.0 releasing this week as their updated C/C++ compiler along with the new "AOF" Fortran compiler, AMD also released AOCL 6.0 as the AMD Optimizing CPU Libraries...
PhoronixSiliconXRAID Publicly Released As New RAID Implementation For XFS Longtime Linux developer Christoph Hellwig today announced the initial public release of XRAID. XRAID is a declustered parity RAID implementation integrated into the XFS file-system.
PhoronixSiliconLinux 7.5 To Upstream Driver For New Glanda GPU Sent out today was the drm-misc-next pull request for the week of new material to queue in DRM-Next until the Linux 7.5 merge window gets underway in late December.
PhoronixSiliconIntel Posts Initial GCC Compiler Code For Razor Lake & Coral Rapids One of the consistent wonderful praise I have for Intel over the past 22+ years of covering the Linux hardware scene has been their upstreaming of new CPU targets into the open-source compilers like…
PhoronixSiliconNVIDIA Highlights Their Open-Source vGPU Upstreaming Work Built Atop Nova The Rust-based NVIDIA Linux kernel driver "Nova" is set to take on an important role in the official NVIDIA Linux driver stack of the future.
PhoronixSiliconDasharo ACPI Fan Control Linux Driver Posted For Adjusting Fan Curves The 3mdeb consulting firm that has ported their Coreboot-based open-source firmware stack to the likes of an AMD Ryzen AM5 motherboard from MSI and a Gigabyte EPYC server motherboard, among others…
PhoronixSiliconOpenAI Codex Helps Uncover & Fix A Nearly 20 Year Old Radeon Linux Driver Bug Sent out today was the latest batch of AMD kernel graphics/compute driver patches destined for the Linux 7.5 merge window opening up at year's end/ Besides a lot of fixes and continued work around…
PhoronixSiliconRust 1.100 Released With The "Never" Type Finally Stable Rust 1.100 is out today as the newest version of this popular programming language...
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