Category Archives: Linux

Linux Foundation Creating The High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)

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Kicking off an exciting Supercomputing SC23 week, The Linux Foundation announced this morning that they are forming the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) to help advance an open-source core software stack for high performance computing (HPC). Already a number of national labs, Intel, NVIDIA, and other stakeholders are involved…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Foundation Creating The High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)

[$] The rest of the 6.7 merge window

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By the time that the 6.7 merge window closed on November 12, 15,418
non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline kernel. That makes
this one of the busiest merge windows ever; if one discounts the lengthy
bcachefs development history (some 2,800 commits), though, then the patch
volume is roughly in line with other recent kernels. Over 5,000 of those
commits were merged after our first-half
merge-window summary was written.

Source: LWN.net – [$] The rest of the 6.7 merge window

AMD Radeon PRO W7700 Launches As $999 GPU With Fully Open-Source Upstream Linux Drivers

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AMD today is announcing what they call “the most powerful PRO GPU under $1,000” with the Radeon PRO W7700 that has a suggested price of $999. Like the rest of the Radeon PRO W7000 series, the W7700 enjoys fully upstream and working open-source Linux graphics driver support for launch day. I received an AMD Radeon PRO W7700 and have been putting it through its paces successfully under Linux.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Radeon PRO W7700 Launches As 9 GPU With Fully Open-Source Upstream Linux Drivers

AlmaLinux Becomes More Than Just Another RHEL Clone With 9.3 Release

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For the first time in its three year’s of existence, AlmaLinux didn’t release its new version within hours of a new RHEL release. That’s because AlmaLinux is no longer just a copy and paste RHEL clone.

The post AlmaLinux Becomes More Than Just Another RHEL Clone With 9.3 Release appeared first on FOSS Force.



Source: FOSS Force – AlmaLinux Becomes More Than Just Another RHEL Clone With 9.3 Release

RADV Adds Knobs To Force Shader Re-Compilation – Helping Games On The Steam Deck

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Valve’s Steam Deck is a heavy user of relying on pre-compiled shaders to yield quicker start times and a more efficient handheld gaming experience. But in cases where bugs happen and a shader compiler fix needs to be back-ported, there isn’t a straight-forward means of properly handling that for the Steam Deck. But with new knobs being added to the Mesa RADV driver code, there will be some options for better dealing with this moving forward…

Source: Phoronix – RADV Adds Knobs To Force Shader Re-Compilation – Helping Games On The Steam Deck

OpenBLAS 0.3.25 Adds New AVX-512 Optimizations For Sapphire Rapids & More

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Ahead of Supercomputing SC23 week, a new version of OpenBLAS has been published for this leading open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library. OpenBLAS 0.3.25 brings new improvements for Intel and AMD x86_64 CPUs as well as a number of general improvements, and continued tuning for other architectures like ARM64, POWER, and LoongArch…

Source: Phoronix – OpenBLAS 0.3.25 Adds New AVX-512 Optimizations For Sapphire Rapids & More

AM62x Sitara-based SoM with Linux support

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The i.Core AM62x by ENGICAM is an embedded system module powered by the low-cost Texas Instrument’s AM62x Sitara processors . It is designed to be versatile, suitable for various applications that require 3D graphics acceleration, dual GbE interfaces and high-performing memory capacity. The heart of the i.Core AM62x is the TI AM62x Sitara processor with […]

Source: LXer – AM62x Sitara-based SoM with Linux support

Kernel prepatch 6.7-rc1

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Linus Torvalds has released
6.7-rc1, thus closing the merge window
for this release. It is the largest merge window ever, but some of that
was due to the bcachefs history that came with merge of that filesystem.

But 6.7 is pretty
big in other ways too, with

12678 files changed, 838819 insertions(+), 280754 deletions(-)

which is also bigger than those historically big releases [4.9, 5.8 and
5.13]. And that’s
not due to bcachefs, that’s actually mainly due to ia64 removal and a
lot of GPU support (notably lots of AMD GPU header files again – lots
and lots of lines, but there’s support for new nvidia cards too).



Source: LWN.net – Kernel prepatch 6.7-rc1

Linux 6.7-rc1 Released With NVIDIA GSP & Bcachefs While Itanium IA-64 Retired

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After a very exciting two weeks, the merge window for Linux 6.7 is now wrapped up and Linus Torvalds has published Linux 6.7-rc1 as the first release candidate leading up to the stable release around the end of the calendar year…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7-rc1 Released With NVIDIA GSP & Bcachefs While Itanium IA-64 Retired

New Fedora Slimbook 14" joins the Fedora Slimbook 16"

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It’s been about a month since we announced the Fedora Slimbook laptop. That was just the first step in our partnership with Slimbook to see Fedora Linux preinstalled on more devices. The feedback we’ve received has been great! With that, we wanted to share more news from our hardware partner that we hope is exciting […]

Source: LXer – New Fedora Slimbook 14″ joins the Fedora Slimbook 16″

Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.6

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The kernel team is working on final integration for Linux kernel 6.6. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora Linux. As a result, the Fedora Linux kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Sunday, November 12, 2023 to Sunday, November 19, 2023. The wiki page in this […]

Source: LXer – Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.6

The Linux 6.7 Merge Window Is Massive With Many New Features

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The Linux 6.7 merge window has been downright exciting with additions like Nouveau GSP support and the Bcachefs file-system being added. It’s also been downright massive as one of the largest merge windows in recent history in terms of code changes. Here’s some statistics of the Linux 6.7 merge window ahead of today’s Linux 6.7-rc1 release…

Source: Phoronix – The Linux 6.7 Merge Window Is Massive With Many New Features