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Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 04:38
Following Red Hat's decision earlier this month to limit access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code and that leading to downstreams scrambling to figure out their paths forward to avoid tracking CentOS Stream instead and still aiming to offer 1:1 RHEL compatibility without being restricted by the Red Hat Customer Portal, the Rocky Linux distribution today expressed a few of the ideas they are considering...

Alibaba T-Head TH1520 RISC-V CPU & A Few New Arm SoCs Ready For Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 04:24
The Arm (and RISC-V) SoC updates have been submitted for merging to the Linux 6.5 kernel. Additions this cycle include an exciting RISC-V processor now supported, NVIDIA Tegra234 "Orin" upstream additions, and other new SoCs and devices/boards being upstreamed...

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme: Windows vs. Linux CPU Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 02:21
As part of our Linux-focused look at the ASUS ROG Ally handheld, last week I provided a number of Windows 11 vs. Linux gaming performance on this gaming handheld with RDNA3 graphics found on the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme SoC. Today's testing is not about the gaming but looking more at the general CPU performance for this Zen 4 powered SoC.

AMD Bringing ROCm To More RDNA3 GPUs Later This Year

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 23:30
AMD has issued a formal announcement now for the ROCm 5.6 compute stack release that was already covered on Phoronix earlier today. In AMD's announcement of ROCm 5.6 though there is a tease of what's to come later this year.....

System76 Launches Nebula PC Cases For DIY Builds

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 22:45
For those that have been fans of System76's Thelio desktop computer cases but prefer building your own systems, System76 today officially launched their "Nebula" line of PC cases...

GIMP 3.0 Release Candidates Hoped For This Year

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 22:30
There's been hopes of seeing the GIMP 3.0 release in 2023 or at least release candidates. GIMP developers recently finished a week-long meet-up and it's looking like they may be on track for at least beginning the GIMP 3.0 release candidate phase this year. GIMP 3.0 has remained quite elusive and in the works for the past decade as the much anticipated port to GTK3 and a host of other enhancements to this open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop...

Qualcomm Adreno 700 Series GPU Support Published For Open-Source Linux Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 06/29/2023 - 21:53
Linaro engineers have been working out support for the latest-generation Qualcomm Adreno 700 series graphics processors found in the newest Snapdragon SoCs. Published on Wednesday were the initial MSM DRM kernel driver patches for bringing up the A700 series open-source graphics support...

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