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BeOS-Inspired Haiku Enabling More Intel Hardware & Driving Kernel Optimizations
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS is out with their newest monthly development summary to highlight advancements made to this unique OS...
2024-10-12 09:02
Intel Panther Lake H EDAC Support Posted For Linux
With Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake systems now shipping and the Linux support largely settled, Intel open-source software engineers have begun ramping up their support for Panther Lake due out in a year...
2024-10-12 06:53
AMD Job Posting Confirms More Details Around Their AI GPU Compute Stack Plans
A Friday evening job posting has confirmed and reinforced details around their future AI GPU compute stack, presumably what's been referred to as the Unified AI Software Stack...
2024-10-12 06:44
KDE Developers Fixing Initial Bugs From Plasma 6.2
Following this week's release of KDE Plasma 6.2, the KDE developers are busy addressing some of the initial fallout from this desktop update as well as more feature work aimed at Plasma 6.3...
2024-10-12 06:13
Ktor 3.0 switches to kotlinx.io library
Ktor 3.0, the latest version of the Kotlin-based framework for building asynchronous client- and server-side applications, is now available. Ktor 3.0 switches to the kotlinx.io library for handling data sources. The release also highlights support for...
2024-10-11 22:32
AMD To Integrate "Project Caliptra" Into Products Beginning In 2026
As another interesting AMD announcement this week following their Advancing AI event yesterday where they launched the EPYC 9005 series and other new hardware, they've continued with a few more soft announcements in the lead-up to the OCP Global Summit...
2024-10-11 20:50
Embedded developers face mounting pressure on security
Developers and software engineers face mounting pressure to balance rapid innovation with safety and security, says software provider BlackBerry Limited. The company released the results of its survey of 1,000 embedded software developers and engineer...
2024-10-11 17:37
KDE Frameworks 6.7 Released with Performance Optimizations and Improvements
KDE Frameworks 6.7 open-source software suite is now available with various improvements for the Plasma desktop and KDE applications. Here's what's changed! The post KDE Frameworks 6.7 Released with Performance Optimizations and Improvements appeared f...
2024-10-11 17:13
Haiku Activity & Contract Report, September 2024 (ft. packagefs memory usage optimization)
This report covers hrev58043 through hrev58187. We’re now back to development “as usual” after the release of R1/beta5 (though some of the changes in this report did make it in to the release itself.) packagefs memory usage optimization While wai...
2024-10-11 15:30
Spotify Controls GNOME Extension is Ideal for Music Addicts
GNOME Shell shows now playing info in the notification shade, out of view but there when you want to check in. Most users like this approach, but perhaps you don’t? Personally, I do like seeing media info (album art, artist name, track title) in the ...
2024-10-11 14:03
Spotify Controls: GNOME Shell Extension Ideal for Music Addicts
GNOME Shell shows now playing info in the notification shade, out of view but there when you want to check in. Most users like this approach, but perhaps you don’t? Personally, I do like seeing media info (album art, artist name, track title) in the ...
2024-10-11 14:03
Arm Exploring IO_uring For Graphics Drivers For Better Performance & Synchronization
The IO_uring asynchronous I/O API for Linux is quite novel and has proven performance benefits. With time IO_uring has been adapted to other areas of the kernel like networking and now with a proposal raised by an Arm graphics driver engineer, it could...
2024-10-11 13:45
AVX-512 Performance With 256-bit vs. 512-bit Data Path For AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs
Now past the launch day for the AMD EPYC 9005 series server processors and having delivered initial AMD EPYC Zen 5 benchmarks for the EPYC 9575F / EPYC 9755 / EPYC 9965 SKUs, it's onto one of my favorite areas of testing and that is the more focused be...
2024-10-11 10:40
Meet Canonical at OCX 2024 in Mainz, Germany
OCX 2024 is a dynamic and inclusive event hosted by the Eclipse Foundation; every year it brings together diverse open source communities from around the world. This year’s gathering features EclipseCon, the flagship conference, and two exciting new ...
2024-10-11 10:30
Intel Xe2 Ultra Joiner, GPU Temperature Reporting & Another Arrow Lake ID For Linux 6.13
The drm-xe-next pull request earlier this week began preparing open-source driver support for Intel Xe3 graphics to premiere with Panther Lake processors. That code is beginning to queue for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle. Today a drm-intel-next pull re...
2024-10-11 09:28
AI is killing cloud sustainability
Sustainability was once a highly touted advantage in public cloud computing. Enterprises and cloud providers flaunted their green initiatives, promoting data centers powered by renewable energy that would reduce carbon footprints. This topic has quiet...
2024-10-11 09:00
DRM_Log Continues To Be Worked On As New Boot Logger For Kernel Messages
DRM_Log is an effort that continues to be worked on by Jocelyn Falempe at Red Hat as a new boot logger for printing the kernel messages on the screen...
2024-10-11 08:30
AMD AOCC 5.0 Compiler Released With Zen 5 Support, New Optimizations
With 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" processors now launched, AMD provided a same-day release of their updated AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler "AOCC". This is AMD's downstream version of LLVM/Clang/Flang where they provide optimized AMD processor support with c...
2024-10-11 06:57
AMD Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" Driver Updated For Heterogeneous CPUs
Back in August I wrote about AMD beginning work on a new Linux driver to help with heterogeneous core CPUs. On Thursday a second iteration of the AMD HFI Linux driver patches were posted with this driver continuing to work its way toward the mainline k...
2024-10-11 06:40