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Linux Kernel Performance Bottlenecks Spotted By Mold Developer

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2024 - 22:32
Open-source developer Rui Ueyama who is the lead developer of the Mold high performance linker and previously on the LLVM lld linker has written a detailed mailing list post that highlights some observed performance bottlenecks within the Linux kernel...

Intel Graphics Compiler Removes Support For Ice Lake & Older

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2024 - 20:18
The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used by the Intel Compute Runtime for Level Zero and OpenCL GPU compute support as well as being depended upon by the Windows 3D driver stack has now removed platform support up to and including Ice Lake...

Mozilla Firefox Switches To .tar.xz For Linux Packaging

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2024 - 19:51
It's not any shiny new web browser feature but Mozilla announced they are moving from .tar.bz2 packages for their Firefox Linux binaries over to using .tar.xz for a faster and lighter experience...

LLVM Merges Support The For Tenstorrent TT-Ascalon-D8 RISC-V CPU

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2024 - 19:42
Adding to the interesting code building up for next spring's release of the LLVM 20 compiler stack is having the Tenstorrent TT-Ascalon D8 as the newest RISC-V processor target...

IO_uring Enjoys Hybrid IO Polling & Ring Resizing With Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2024 - 19:30
Merged last week back toward the start of the Linux 6.13 merge window were a number of interesting IO_uring enhancements for this first major kernel version of 2025...

40+ Linux Commands for a Better Machine Learning Workflow

Tecmint - Thu, 11/28/2024 - 14:21
The post 40+ Linux Commands for a Better Machine Learning Workflow first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux is the backbone of many machine learning (ML) workflows. With its powerful command-line interface, Linux gives engineers the flexibility

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Feature-Packed systemd 257 Nears Release With RC3 Availability

Phoronix - Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:52
Systemd 257 is nearing release as the next major feature release for this widely-used init system and software suite on Linux systems...

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