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Trying Out The AMD Developer Cloud For Evaluating Instinct + ROCm
Last week alongside announcing the AMD Instinct MI350X/MI355X and the ROCm 7.0 software preview, AMD also introduced the AMD Developer Cloud as a new means for developers to easy try out Instinct accelerators with their own software and with the ROCm compute stack already setup. Having tried out prior AMD cloud compute environments, as soon as my email invite for the AMD Developer Cloud arrived I decided to give it a try.
Rust Surveying Developers To Find Biggest Compiler Performance Issues
Rust developers acknowledge lengthy compiler times can be a significant issue that limits the productivity of developers working with this programming language. For helping in determining different combinations of issues around compiler performance, the Rust team has started a survey to collect more information on the issues...
Linux Sensor Monitoring Coming For The ASUS ProArt X870E-CREATOR WIFI
For those interested in a high-end motherboard for AMD Ryzen 9000 / 8000 / 7000 series processors that is marketed for creators and equipped with high-end features, the ASUS ProArt X870E-CREATOR WIFI motherboard that retails for $500+ USD will soon see hardware monitoring support under Linux...
ReactOS Merges Better Support For Fullscreen Applications
ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" project providing an operating system with binary compatibility for Windows software and drivers can finally properly handle full-screen games/apps...
Uniwill Laptop Driver Proposed For Linux To Enable Additional Features
For those with a laptop from Taiwanese OEM/ODM manufacturer Uniwill, two new drivers are being proposed to enhance the mainline Linux kernel support for Uniwill laptops by enabling additional functionality to work under Linux...
FreeRDP 3.16 Released With Better SDL3 Client Support
FreeRDP 3.16 is out today as the newest update to this open-source Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) library and client implementation. This Apache-licensed project continues to be one of the leading implementations of the Microsoft RDP protocol for use outside the confines of Windows...
Intel Performance Counters Support Merged To Mesa For Panther Lake
The Intel Observation Architecture "OA" performance counters support has been upstreamed to Mesa for upcoming Xe3 Panther Lake integrated graphics...
Linux 6.16-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes
Following the release of Linux 6.16-rc1 last Sunday that capped off the Linux 6.16 merge window, Linux 6.16-rc2 is now available with an initial week's worth of bug/regression fixes. Linux 6.16 development continues in aiming toward a stable release around the end of July...
Linux 6.17 Looks Like It Could Go Ahead And Make SMP Support Unconditional
Back in May a big patch series was published for reworking the Linux kernel to make the SMP support unconditional. Right now those that happen to be running Linux in a uniprocessor (1 CPU core) configuration can build with "CONFIG_SMP" disabled but the proposed patches would make symmetric multi-processing support always present. Those patches took a step forward this week and could be merged for the Linux 6.17 cycle later in the summer...
The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts
The X.Org Server has been seeing a lot of commits this week... to revert bad code...
Graphics Driver Changes Begin Queuing Ahead Of Linux 6.17
While the Linux 6.16 merge window just passed one week ago, already there are new feature changes beginning to queue for the Linux 6.17 kernel later in the summer...
16-bit Medium Precision Improvements Merged For AMD Radeon Mesa Code
Prominent AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák this week landed a number of fixes for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code in working to enable medium precision "mediump" support for this open-source graphics driver...
Linux 6.16 Lands Proper Power Management Fix For Code That Caused Power Regression
Linux 6.15 mistakenly shipped with a nasty power regression for some systems, such as those relying on the "nosmt" option to disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading / Hyper Threading. That idle power regression was fixed for Linux 6.15.2 and Linux 6.16 Git by reverting the troubled patch that introduced the regression. Now merged ahead of Linux 6.16-rc2 is a proper fix for that problematic patch so it could be re-merged without the power fallout...
Linux Kernel API Specification Framework Proposed To Help Stabilize User-Space Interfaces
Sasha Levin just sent out an initial "request for comments" patch series for the Linux kernel in aiming to establish a Kernel API Specification Framework...
SDL Merges Wayland Pointer Warp Support To Help Native Wayland Gaming
Introduced with this week's Wayland Protocols 1.45 release is adding the Pointer Warp protocol to staging. The SDL hardware/software abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games was quick to merge support for using the native Pointer Warp protocol on Wayland...
GNOME's Busy Week With Disabling X11 Session By Default, Greater systemd Dependence
This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue and there being a number of recent controversial changes to the desktop platform...
Haiku OS Restores EXT4 Compatibility, RISC-V Once Again Booting
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS published their latest monthly report to outline progress made over the past month...
KDE Plasma 6.5 To Introduce Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support
While KDE Plasma 6.4 is set for release next week, there are already exciting feature improvements brewing for Plasma 6.5...
Wine 10.10 Brings Updated Mono, 38 Bug Fixes
Wine 10.10 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...
Bcachefs Is Now Able To Auto-Fix A Few More Fsck Errors
Another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted and merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle, including the ability to auto-fix more file-system check "fsck" errors...