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AMD Announces Pensando Salina 400 DPU & Pollara 400 Ultra Ethernet NIC
In addition to announcing the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors and the latest on the AMD Instinct front, Lisa Su at the AMD Advancing AI event in San Francisco also announced the AMD Pensando Salina 400 DPU and AMD Pensando Pollara 400 Ultra Ethernet AI NI...
2024-10-10 14:00
Intel Announces Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake CPUs
As part of a busy day in the CPU world, Intel has lifted the embargo on the Core Ultra 200S "Arrow Lake" desktop processors. This isn't the review embargo but just an overview on this new generation succeeding 14th Gen "Raptor Lake Refresh" on the desk...
2024-10-10 11:00
Apple Silicon On Linux Now More Capable For Gaming With Latest Mesa + Steam On FEX
Alyssa Rosenzweig provided an update today at the XDC 2024 conference in Montreal on the open-source "Honeykrisp" Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon M1/M2 SoCs within Mesa and related work as part of the Asahi Linux project to provide for a nice Linux gam...
2024-10-10 10:35
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Available With Linux 6.11, GCC 14 & Other Upgrades
The Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" ISOs are now officially available as the newest six-month update to Ubuntu Linux...
2024-10-10 09:20
AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver Posted For Linux
AMD today quietly posted a new open-source Linux kernel driver for review... the AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver. This AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver for Linux is intended to help optimize performance on systems sporting 3D V-C...
2024-10-10 06:38
Intel Begins Working On Next-Gen Xe3 Graphics With Linux 6.13
While Intel Xe2 graphics have just debuted with Lunar Lake and we are awaiting Battlemage discrete GPUs with Xe2, Intel's open-source Linux driver engineers have begun work enabling Xe3 graphics! Xe3 driver work is now underway for next-generation Inte...
2024-10-10 06:25
Restartable Sequences "RSEQ" Seeing Up To 16.7x Speedup With Newest Linux Patch
For those making use of Restartable Sequences (RSEQ) on Linux systems, there is an enticing performance optimization on the way...
2024-10-10 06:09
Open3D Engine "O3DE" 24.09 Released With Performance Improvements & More
The Open 3D Engine as the open-source game engine developed under the Linux Foundation umbrella and began as an advanced version of the Amazon Lumberyard engine is out with a new feature release. Open 3D Engine "O3DE" 24.09 is out today with a variety ...
2024-10-09 20:25
Ubuntu Server 24.10 Brings Experimental NVMe/TCP Installation Support
While not a long-term support release, Ubuntu Server 24.10 is delivering an interesting proof-of-concept for supporting NVMe/TCP based installations...
2024-10-09 12:40
Vulkan 1.3.297 Introduces VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready
Slipping under my radar until now was the Vulkan API 1.3.297 spec update released last week that introduces a new extension, VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready...
2024-10-09 12:12
Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake
Following my recent Intel Core Ultra 7 200V "Lunar Lake" Linux benchmarks and looking at the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics (including Windows 11 vs. Linux already), you may be wondering about the Lunar Lake CPU performance between Windows and Linux... Here a...
2024-10-09 09:07
Microsoft Continues Working On Hyper-V Dom0 Support For Linux
Microsoft Linux engineers have continued preparing the Linux kernel to support Hyper-V Dom0 for Linux to run as the root partition...
2024-10-09 08:41
GNOME Triple Buffering May Need To Be Re-Engineered - Helping NVIDIA Performance
The long-in-development GNOME triple buffering support that is patched into the Ubuntu and Debian builds and available for years in patch form might need to undergo a redesign. That's to better accommodate the NVIDIA Linux driver and likely help other ...
2024-10-09 06:42
Intel Revs Linux Driver Patches To Fend Off PCIe Thermal Issues Via Bandwidth Reduction
Originally published last summer were patches from Intel for the Linux kernel to introduce a PCI Express bandwidth controller Linux driver to provide a PCIe cooling mechanism via bandwidth reduction to devices in order to prevent thermal issues. One ye...
2024-10-09 06:31
GCC 15 Un-Deprecates Itanium IA-64 Linux Support
The GCC 14 compiler marked Itanium IA-64 support as obsolete with plans to remove that Intel architecture in GCC 15. But for now at least the Itanium Linux compiler support has seen some reprieve with it being un-deprecated...
2024-10-09 06:14
NTFS Driver Lands Some Late Feature Enhancements For Linux 6.12
While the Linux 6.12 merge window has been closed for more than one week, the modern NTFS "NTFS3" driver has seen some late feature enhancements as well as some fixes merged today for this new kernel version...
2024-10-08 15:23
Arm's Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Support Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.13
For more than one year Arm engineers have been working on Guarded Control Stack "GCS" support for the Linux kernel as a means of protecting against return-oriented programming (ROP) sttacks with modern AArch64 processors. It looks like for Linux 6.13 t...
2024-10-08 14:26
Intel Xeon 6980P 1S Performance With DDR5-6400/MRDIMM-8800
With the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarking at Phoronix the past few weeks it's been in a dual socket (2S / 2P) configuration. For those curious about the Intel Xeon 6980P 128-core server performance for a single socket (1S) configuration, here are...
2024-10-08 10:40
Intel's Rendering Toolkit Turns To More Open, Community-Welcoming Development Model
Intel's oneAPI Rendering Toolkit with the likes of OSPRay, Embree, OpenVKL, Open Image Denoise, and others has been open-source for years. But it's not been exactly an open-source development model with making it easy for independent contributors to pr...
2024-10-08 09:51
KDE Plasma 6.2 Released With More Desktop Polishing
KDE Plasma 6.2 is now available as the latest refinement to the modern Plasma 6 desktop environment...
2024-10-08 06:58