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OpenJDK 25 & GraalVM 25 Released With 32-bit x86 Support Removed

Phoronix - Thu, 09/18/2025 - 03:12
Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle's GraalVM 25 alternative JVM...

AMD Hardware Would Ideally Be Supported By ROCm For ~10 Years

Phoronix - Thu, 09/18/2025 - 02:49
While down to AMD Austin yesterday for the Instinct MI355X and ROCm 7.0 launch, I had the chance to chat again with Anush Elangovan. As the VP of AI Software at AMD, talking with Anush is always insightful and technical in nature. One of the questions I posed him was around the length of hardware support with ROCm...

GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 23:29
GNOME 49.0 is out today as the latest half-year feature release to the GNOME desktop that will go on to power the likes of Fedora Workstation 43 and Ubuntu 25.10...

Latest Open-Source AMD Improvements Allowing For Better Llama.cpp AI Performance Against Windows 11

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 22:48
When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks I also ended up carrying out some Llama.cpp AI benchmarks as the first time exploring the AI inferencing performance between Windows and Linux for both CPU and GPU-accelerated deployments. Here are those results for exploring the Llama.cpp performance between Windows and Linux with different large language models.

A Quick Look At The AMD Instinct MI355X With ROCm 7.0

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 21:00
Yesterday I was invited along with a small group of others to try out the AMD Instinct MI355X accelerator down in Austin, Texas. The AMD Instinct MI355X is fully supported with the newly-released AMD ROCm 7.0...

systemd 258 Released With systemd-factory-reset & Other New Tools

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 20:21
Systemd 258 is out today as stable as the latest major feature release to this Linux init system and service manager...

Microsoft Rolls Out A Linux 6.12 LTS Option For Azure Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 20:00
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250910 as the newest version of this in-house Linux distribution used by Azure and other services. Azure Linux 3.0 has long been using the Linux 6.6 LTS kernel while now Linux 6.12 LTS is a new option focused on providing better hardware enablement support...

Linux 6.18 To Add Detection For FreeBSD's Bhyve Hypervisor

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 18:00
A patch making it to a TIP Git branch this week adds Linux kernel support for detecting the FreeBSD Bhyve hypervisor, which will become important with today's growing server CPU counts...

Intel Compute Runtime 25.35.35096.9 Ships Newest Features & Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 17:00
Intel shipped the Compute Runtime 25.35.35096.9 as their newest monthly feature update to this open-source GPU compute stack for their integrated and discrete graphics wares for providing OpenCL and Level Zero support...

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