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Intel VC-Intrinsics Updated With Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake & XeHPCVG Support

Phoronix - Fri, 12/15/2023 - 19:52
Intel's VC Intrinsics software package that provides a set of intrinsics atop the LLVM IR instructions to represent SIMD semantics for programs targeting Intel GPUs has been updated for new hardware support...

Canonical Details Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop Plans + Ongoing X11 Sunsetting Discussions

Phoronix - Fri, 12/15/2023 - 19:28
Tim Holmes-Mitra with Canonical has shared some roadmap highlights for the Ubuntu desktop with the in-development Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...

The Intel_Idle Linux Driver Prepares For Grand Ridge SoCs

Phoronix - Fri, 12/15/2023 - 19:15
While some at Intel were busy launching the 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids", other Linux engineers at the company were pushing ahead on their new hardware enablement quest for future platforms. Sent out on the same day as Emerald Rapids being announced were continued patches for enabling Grand Ridge...

Fedora 40's Linker Will Now Error Out On Security Issues

Phoronix - Fri, 12/15/2023 - 18:56
In addition to Fedora 40 applying systemd hardening settings to bolster system security, another security enhancement now approved by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) is on having the linker error out on encountering possible security issues...

Mesa 23.3.1 Rolls Out Fixes From D3D12 To RADV

Phoronix - Fri, 12/15/2023 - 18:31
It's been two weeks since Mesa 23.3 was punctually released and this week has been succeeded by the Mesa 23.3.1 point release with the first batch of bug/regression fixes...

Fedora 40 To Apply Systemd Security Hardening

Phoronix - Fri, 12/15/2023 - 08:28
Fedora 40 is planning to provide more hardened system security by leveraging some high level security features provided by systemd...

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