Python 3.13 Sees Last Minute Delay Due To Performance Regression
Python 3.13 had been scheduled for release today with a new interactive interpreter, experimental free-threaded build mode to disable the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), an experimental JIT, and other shiny new features. But a performance regression has...
Kernel Recipes 2024 Slides & Videos Posted
Taking place last week in Paris was the annual Kernel Recipes conference devoted to a variety of Linux topics and sponsored by Meta, Dell, Arm, AMD, and other organizations. The slides and videos from the different Linux/open-source talks are now onlin...
Supermicro ARS-211M-NR AmpereOne Server With R13SPD Motherboard
One of the interesting highlights of September was finally having our hands on an AmpereOne server! After years of being eager to test Ampere Computing's next-generation AArch64 server processors, Ampere sent over their 192-core flagship server process...
AMD Announces EPYC Embedded 8004 Series
Building off last year's release of the EPYC 8004 "Siena" processors featuring up to sixty-four Zen 4C cores, AMD today announced the EPYC Embedded 8004 series...
Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10
For those making use of "reverse PRIME" setups where you have a primary NVIDIA discrete GPU while monitors are connected to Intel integrated graphics as the secondary GPU, such configurations should be working nicely with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 rele...
Raspberry Pi’s New $70 AI Camera Works With All Pi Models
If you’re looking to kick the tyres on some AI image processing/recognition tasks and you own an older Raspberry Pi, the new AI Camera add-on may be of interest. While the $70 Raspberry Pi AI Kit only works with a Raspberry Pi 5, the $70 AI camer...
Linux Mint Gives First Look at New Cinnamon Theme
As revealed last month, Linux Mint is working on an improved default theme for the Cinnamon desktop – and today we got our first look at what’s coming. The way Cinnamon looks in Linux Mint (the distribution) is not the way it looks if you insta...
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2024)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Carlos Henrique Lima Melara (charles) Joenio Marques da Costa (joenio) Blair Noctis (ncts) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last tw...
DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc
An open-source developer at AMD has carried out a DOOM port that runs almost entirely atop AMD GPUs for rendering and the game logic. This DOOM GPU port relies on the AMD ROCm library with the LLVM libc C library for offloading the classic DOOM to the ...
