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What's new and cool in the 6.4 Linux kernel  ZDNet

What's new and cool in the 6.4 Linux kernel  ZDNet

The Intel Xeon Max 9480 flagship Sapphire Rapids CPU with HBM2e memory tops out at 56 cores / 112 threads, so how can that compete with the latest AMD EPYC processors hitting 96 cores for Genoa (or 120 cores with the forthcoming Bergamo)? Besides the on-package HBM2e that is unique to the Xeon Max family, the other ace that Xeon Max holds with the rest of the Sapphire Rapids line-up is support for the Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). In today's benchmarks of the Intel Xeon Max performance is precisely showing the impact of how HBM2e and AMX in order to compete -- and outperform -- AMD's EPYC 9554 and 9654 processors in AI workloads when effectively leveraging AMX and the onboard HBM2e memory.

Ubuntu's NVIDIA Unified Device Architecture (UDA) driver package intended for GPU compute acceleration has enabled the NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel driver support in their packages since the end of last year. Now with the new NVIDIA Enterprise Ready Driver "ERD" Ubuntu package hitting Ubuntu LTS users, they are also supporting the NVIDIA open GPU kernel driver option there...

Fedora Workstation devs face community backlash over plans to ...  ITPro

As was anticipated, UEFI Unaccepted Memory support was successfully merged for Linux 6.5 to support this standard that's important with the likes of Intel Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Page (SEV-SNP) backed virtual machines...

Unaccepted Memory Merged For Linux 6.5, Helping AMD SEV-SNP ...  Phoronix

Hopefully by now all of you have moved off PS/2 mice and keyboards, but should you still have some old systems chugging along with PS/2 hardware, there are some improvements to find with the Linux 6.5 kernel currently under development...

Linux 6.5 Bringing Improvements To PS/2 Mouse & Keyboard Handling  Phoronix

AMD's GPUOpen team on Thursday released the newest version of their Advanced Media Framework "AMF" SDK for Linux and Windows developers...

AMD AMF SDK 1.4.30 Released For Multimedia Processing On ...  Phoronix

The Linux 6.5 media subsystem updates were merged this week for the merge window that is wrapping up this weekend...

Mediatek Gains Stateless AV1/HEVC Codecs, Intel Atom ISP Driver ...  Phoronix

For those on the three-year-old GCC 10 compiler series, it's really time to move to a newer GNU Compiler Collection release for enjoying the latest language support, new hardware features, various optimizations, enhanced diagnostics, and more. But for those still bound to GCC 10 for whatever reason, GCC 10.5 was released today as one final update in the branch...

How I Went from Newbie to Linux System Administrator in Six Months  Zikoko

StackRot – New Linux kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability  GBHackers

Fedora Proposes Adding Telemetry to Fedora 40  WebProNews

"Fixing" WiFi 6 on Linux in Alder Lake-N mini PCs (Intel N95, N100 ...  CNX Software

“Fixing” WiFi 6 on Linux in Alder Lake-N mini PCs (Intel N95, N100, Core i3-N300…)  CNX Software

AMD Begins Zen 5 Prep, Sends First Linux Patches  Tom's Hardware