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Linux 6.4 Closes The Door On Intel Thunder Bay

Phoronix - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 18:35
While Intel Thunder Bay sparked rumors years ago as potentially being a mix of Intel x86 cores and Movidius VPU cores, although the Linux patches put it as ARM cores paired with the Movidius VPU, Thunder Bay is no more. As I wrote back in March, Intel Linux engineers have acknowledged Thunder Bay is cancelled and there are no end-customers/users so they are going ahead and removing the Linux support...

LoongArch With Linux 6.4 Lands Optimizations, New Functionality

Phoronix - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 18:22
Chinese tech company Loongson continues working on improving the upstream Linux kernel support for their MIPS-derived, RISC-V-inspired domestic CPU architecture. With the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel is another batch of optimizations and implementing more kernel functionality for the LoongArch CPU architecture...

Experimental AV2 Support Added To AVIF Image Encoder

Phoronix - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 18:11
The reference AVIF image encoder for the AV1 Image File Format has added experimental support for AV2, the next-generation codec that remains in development by the Alliance for Open Media...

dav1d 1.2 Released With More SIMD Optimizations

Phoronix - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 17:54
Dav1d as the open-source AV1 video decoder developed as part of the VideoLAN project is out with a new minor feature release...

5 Best PDF to Word Converters for Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 12:42
The post 5 Best PDF to Word Converters for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Portable Document Format or PDF is one of the most popular file formats, mainly due to its unified standard across platforms and devices, compatibility,

The post 5 Best PDF to Word Converters for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Sustainable supply chains: challenges, drivers and architectures

Red Hat News - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 08:00
A common definition of environmental sustainability is meeting the resource and services needs of current and future generations without compromising the health of the ecosystems that provide them. In addition to ongoing discussions around government regulation, investors and asset managers are increasingly demanding carbon disclosure from their portfolio companies. Investment in environmental funds is soaring—with some reports pegging it at over $40 trillion. Even though specific actions taken by businesses are arguably still limited in overall impact, it’s nonetheless an increasingly

Intel Posts New Linux Patches For Cluster Scheduling With Hybrid CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 05:00
A new set of patches were posted today to enable cluster scheduling for x86 hybrid CPUs. In turn thos latest attempt at cluster scheduling for modern Core CPUs of Alder Lake and newer is yielding some small performance benefits over the current code...

LLVM Clang Now Exposes -std=c++23 Rather Than -std=c++2b

Phoronix - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 04:41
Merged today to LLVM 17 Git is now recognizing -std=c++23 rather than just -std=c++2b for the Clang compiler now that C++23 has been deemed technically complete...

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