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Intel & Canonical Collaborate On Graphics Preview Stack For Ubuntu 24.10

Intel and Canonical have been collaborating to provide an early "Graphics Preview" stack for Ubuntu 24.10 to provide better support for the new Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" and Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics...

2024-12-19 14:33

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Linux 6.13 Is A Great Holiday Gift For AMD Systems With Many New Features

Of the many new features in Linux 6.13 for that kernel debuting by late January, AMD customers once again have a lot to look forward to from new Zen 5 features being enabled to additional performance optimizations. Here is a look at some of the most ex...

2024-12-19 12:18

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Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance

One of the areas for benchmarking exploration that I had been meaning to dive into since the launch of the Intel Arrow Lake processors back in October was checking out the Microsoft Windows 11 vs. Linux performance for the new Core Ultra 9 285K flagshi...

2024-12-19 10:30

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OpenVINO 2024.6 Released With Intel Arc B-Series Support, NPU Optimizations

Intel's OpenVINO open-source AI toolkit is out with a new feature release today for closing out the year. The OpenVINO 2024.6 release brings initial support for the Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics cards as well as further optimizing the Intel NPU su...

2024-12-19 08:55

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Fish Shell 4.0 Beta Released With C++ Code Ported To Rust

The Fish Shell as the interactive, user-friendly command line shell debuted its 4.0 beta release ahead of the holidays. Notably in this release is porting the C++ code over to the Rust programming language...

2024-12-19 08:48

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AlmaLinux 10 Beta Running Great With Nice Performance As Free/Community Alternative To RHEL 10

Along with the recent release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 beta, the AlmaLinux crew released their AlmaLinux 10 beta as the latest wares for this popular community/free alternative to upstream RHEL. I've been running some early benchmarks and tes...

2024-12-19 06:50

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AMD Updates Linux Patches For L3 Smart Data Cache Injection SDCIAE Handling

Back in August AMD posted Linux patches for L3 Smart Data Cache Injection Allocation Enforcement (SDCIAE). That L3 Smart Data Cache Injection (SDCI) work was since announced as part of the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. A second iteration of those S...

2024-12-19 06:29

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Linux 6.14 To Support Realtek RTL8125D Rev B 2.5G Ethernet ASIC

The Linux kernel already supports the Realtek RTL8125D 2.5G Ethernet controller but additional handling is required to enable the revision B variant of this chipset, which will be coming in the next kernel cycle...

2024-12-19 06:18

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Cloud Hypervisor 43 Brings Live Migration Over TCP, Performance Improvements

Cloud Hypervisor 43 is out as the newest version of this Intel-backed, Rust-based open-source VMM project that now routinely sees contributions from Microsoft, Arm, Rivos, Tencent, and other organizations...

2024-12-19 06:03

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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