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GNOME Project Handbook Launches To Help New Contributors

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 21:48
The GNOME project has announced the GNOME Project Handbook as a new resource for helping new developers/contributors get involved with this open-source desktop environment...

Linux's x86_energy_perf_policy Utility Being Extended To AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 19:55
For AMD Zen 2 and newer systems making use of the modern AMD P-State driver on Linux for CPU frequency scaling, ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) interface is being used. For managing the ACPI CPPC energy performance preference (EPP), Intel's x86_energy_perf_policy utility is now being extended to AMD processors...

ChipStar 1.1 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 19:38
ChipStar 1.1 was released this past week as one of the open-source projects to help in porting HIP and CUDA applications to support the industry-standard SPIR-V. ChipStar acts to get HIP/CUDA codes working on SPIR-V with OpenCL or Intel's oneAPI Level Zero...

Radeon R300 Open-Source Driver Continues Seeing New Improvements In 2024

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 19:23
As I wrote about at the start of January, the open-source ATI Radeon R300 Linux graphics driver continues seeing new improvements even all these years later thanks to the open-source community. This wasn't some one-off work either in 2024 for this R300 to R500 GPU OpenGL driver but more work has since landed...

LLVM 18.1-rc1 Released For Enabling New Intel CPU Features, More C23 & C++23

Phoronix - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 09:30
Following the recent branching of LLVM 18, LLVM 18.1-rc1 was released today as the first test candidate for this half-year update of this widely-used open-source compiler stack...

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