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Incomplete Ponte Vecchio Support Being Dropped From Intel's i915 Linux Kernel Driver

Intel Linux graphics driver engineers are doing a bit of house keeping to the i915 DRM driver and removing some pre-production hardware bits as well as the incomplete Ponte Vecchio support...

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AMD OpenSIL Will Be Talked About Later This Month At The 2023 OCP Global Summit

Earlier this year at the OCP Regional Summit in Prague AMD first presented openSIL as their new open-source CPU silicon initialization effort that can integrate with Coreboot and open-source boot firmware solutions. AMD openSIL is currently being prototyped on Genoa platforms but in a few years will eventually replace AGESA on both client and server processors. Later this month at the OCP Global Summit, there will be a new presentation on AMD openSIL...

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LLVM Merges Initial Support For OpenMP Kernel Language

Merged to LLVM 18 Git yesterday was the initial support for the OpenMP kernel language, an effort around having performance portable GPU codes as an alternative to the likes of the proprietary CUDA...

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Vulkan 1.3.267 Released With Nested Command Buffer Extension

Vulkan 1.3.267 was published this morning with two new extensions...

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OpenJDK Merges Intel's x86-simd-sort For Speeding Up Data Sorting 7~15x

Earlier this year Intel posted x86-simd-sort as a blazing fast sorting library that makes use of AVX-512. When the popular Numpy began using it they found up to 10~17x faster sorts for 16-bit to 64-bit data types. Today Intel software engineers released x86-simd-sort 3.0 and it also comes minutes after OpenJDK merged a modified version of this speeding sorting code into that reference JDK codebase...

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dav1d 1.3 Yields Lower Memory Use, More Arm NEON Optimizations

Dav1d 1.3 was released on Friday as the newest feature update to this widely-used, open-source AV1 video decoder...

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KWin Replaces KScreen For Handling Monitor Arrangement Under KDE Plasma Wayland

October is off to a great start as February inches closer for what's expected to bring the much anticipated Plasma 6.0 desktop release...

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Intel oneDNN 3.3 Brings More Performance Optimizations For Sapphire Rapids / AMX

In addition to x86-simd-sort 3.0 being released for speedy AVX-512 sorting, Friday also brought the release of oneDNN 3.3 as the deep neural network library that is part of oneAPI and focused on helping developers build out deep learning applications...

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Chrome 119 Beta Released With CSS Relative Color Syntax, WebSQL Disabled

Google engineers on Friday promoted Chrome 119 to its beta stage with some interesting features in tow...

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OpenZFS 2.2-rc5 Released With More Fixes & Linux 6.5 Compatibility

The OpenZFS 2.2 release candidates are dragging on with the fifth test release having debuted on Saturday to provide some additional fixes and support for the Linux 6.5 stable kernel...

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Polychromatic 0.8.2 Released For Managing Razer Peripherals On Linux

Polychromatic continues evolving as the open-source management software for Razer peripherals on Linux that makes use of the independently-developed OpenRazer kernel drivers for improving the customization experience around Razer mice, keyboards, and other devices on Linux...

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Debian 12.2 Released With Various Security Fixes, AMD Inception Microcode

Following the release of Debian 12.1 in July, Debian 12.2 was released this weekend to incorporate all of the latest security fixes and other stable back-ports for Debian 12 Bookworm...

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Incus 0.1 Released As Linux Containers' Fork Of LXD

Back in August Linux Containers forked the LXD project as Incus following Canonical's decision to take in control of LXD. Released this weekend was the first formal release for the Incus software...

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AMD Versal EDAC Driver Set For Introduction In Linux 6.7

The upcoming Linux 6.7 merge window is set to include a new AMD driver for supporting error detection and correct (EDAC) for their Versal SoCs...

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PreSonus Studio One 6.5 Music Production Software Adds Wayland-Only Linux Support

At the end of September PreSonus Audio Electronics announced Studio One 6.5 as the latest version of their premium Studio One music production software / digital audio workstation (DAW). While for years Linux has had options like Ardour, Stargate, REAPER and Zrythm, for the first time the commercial Studio One has seen native Linux support...

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Linux 6.6-rc5 Released: "Things Are Back To Normal"

As we approach the Linux 6.6 stable release in a few weeks, Linus Torvalds today released Linux 6.6-rc5 with everything looking "normal" for this week's test release...

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Curl Preps For "Probably The Worst Curl Security Flaw In A Long Time"

The widely-used Curl project as a command-line tool and library for transferring data via a variety of protocols is preparing to roll-out Curl 8.4 early in order to address a particularly nasty vulnerability...

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GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support

A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment...

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Intel APX Code Begins Landing Within The GCC Compiler

In addition to Intel's compiler engineers pushing a lot of code into GCC -- and other open-source compiler components -- around AVX10, over the weekend code began hitting the GCC 14 Git codebase for the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) functionality...

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Hangover 8.17 Released With Updated Box64 & FEX Integration

Hangover 8.17 was released this weekend as the newest feature release for this open-source Wine-based software that aims to make it easy to run Windows x86/x64 binaries on 64-bit Arm Linux systems as well as potentially other architectures too like RISC-V and POWER...