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New Linux Patches Allow Manipulating Out-Of-Memory Behavior Using BPF

Phoronix - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 08:47
Google engineer Roman Gushchin has proposed the ability for the Linux kernel to customize the out-of-memory "OOM" behavior using BPF programs...

More than meets the eye: Behind the scenes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Red Hat News - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 08:00
This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we’ll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being.At Red Hat Summit 2025, we announced the latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10. This release was much more than a few minor enhancements or feature additions; RHEL 10 delivers AI-powered Linux management, post-quantum cryptography capabilities and containers as the native languag

AMD "GFX1250" To Double The Number Of User SGPRs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 07:34
We still don't have much confirmed information on AMD's GFX1250 that has come to light in recent months due to being developed for their AMDGPU shader compiler back-end within LLVM. AMD GFX1250 surfaced in LLVM activity and the past few months has been seeing more additions made. A notable change committed today for LLVM is that the number of user Scalar General-Purpose Registers (SGPRs) has doubled...

AMD ZenDNN 5.1 Released For Enhancing AI Inference Performance On EPYC CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 04:18
Following the AMD ZenDNN 5.0 release from last year's EPYC Turin launch that brought big performance improvements for CPU-based inferencing with this open-source library compatible with Intel's oneDNN, today marks the availability of ZenDNN 5.1 as the next update...

Kdenlive 25.08 Preps For Future Hardware Acceleration Features

Phoronix - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 03:24
Kdenlive 25.08 is out today as the newest feature release for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source video editor. In addition to a number of new features, there are also many bug fixes including more than 15 crash fixes...

Git 2.51 Released With More Changes Preparing For Git 3.0

Phoronix - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 01:17
Git 2.51 is out this Monday as the newest milestone for this widely-used, distributed version control system...

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