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Microchip LAN969x SoC Going Upstream In Linux 6.18

Phoronix - 1 hour 20 min ago
One of the new SoCs to be supported by the upstream Linux 6.18 kernel is the Microchip LAN969x...

How to Install cPanel & WHM on AlmaLinux 9

Tecmint - 5 hours 22 min ago
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If you’ve ever managed a hosting server, you know that cPanel & WHM is one of the most popular control

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Intel's Latest Open-Source Project To End & Layoff Developers... But A New Home At NumPy

Phoronix - 11 hours 23 min ago
Beyond shutting down the Clear Linux project, various Linux driver maintainers let go that have even led to some Intel drivers being "orphaned" in the Linux kernel, there is another open-source project that has ended at Intel with the developers departing the company. Though at least this project has found a new open-source home under the NumPy umbrella...

AMD "GFX1251" Target Added To LLVM As Latest RDNA 4.5 APU

Phoronix - 14 hours 36 min ago
The past few months we have been intrigued by an AMD GFX1250 target added to the LLVM codebase for the AMDGPU shader compiler back-end. GFX12 is RDNA4 and GFX1250 is presumably some "RDNA 4.5" / "RDNA Refresh" part akin to GFX1150 having been for the RDNA 3.5 parts with Strix Halo / Strix Point. The prior LLVM code confirmed GFX1250 is in APU form factor but product details beyond that have been scarce. Today a new AMD GFX1251 target was merged to LLVM...

OpenJDK 25 & GraalVM 25 Released With 32-bit x86 Support Removed

Phoronix - 16 hours 10 min ago
Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle's GraalVM 25 alternative JVM...

AMD Hardware Would Ideally Be Supported By ROCm For ~10 Years

Phoronix - 16 hours 34 min ago
While down to AMD Austin yesterday for the Instinct MI355X and ROCm 7.0 launch, I had the chance to chat again with Anush Elangovan. As the VP of AI Software at AMD, talking with Anush is always insightful and technical in nature. One of the questions I posed him was around the length of hardware support with ROCm...

GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 23:29
GNOME 49.0 is out today as the latest half-year feature release to the GNOME desktop that will go on to power the likes of Fedora Workstation 43 and Ubuntu 25.10...

Latest Open-Source AMD Improvements Allowing For Better Llama.cpp AI Performance Against Windows 11

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 22:48
When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks I also ended up carrying out some Llama.cpp AI benchmarks as the first time exploring the AI inferencing performance between Windows and Linux for both CPU and GPU-accelerated deployments. Here are those results for exploring the Llama.cpp performance between Windows and Linux with different large language models.

A Quick Look At The AMD Instinct MI355X With ROCm 7.0

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 21:00
Yesterday I was invited along with a small group of others to try out the AMD Instinct MI355X accelerator down in Austin, Texas. The AMD Instinct MI355X is fully supported with the newly-released AMD ROCm 7.0...

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