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Meta has published the Intermediate Graphics Library (IGL) as a new cross-platform library to provide a single low-level interface that works atop native graphics APIs from OpenGL and Vulkan to Apple's Metal...

What AMD's Latest Linux Patches Reveal About Upcoming Zen 5 CPUs  Hot Hardware

Linux 6.5 Brings New "cachestat" Syscall For Querying Page Cache ...  Phoronix

A new system call found in Linux 6.5 is "cachestat" that allows user-space to query page cache statistics for a file in order to make more informed decisions...

How to Manually Install the Latest Docker Compose Version on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

In addition to Fedora 39 aiming to use the Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation, shipping the latest and greatest open-source compiler toolchain components, enhance Linux gaming compatibility, eliminate Flathub filtering, and dozens of other improvements, there are also plans for a more mundane change: a colored bash prompt...

Fedora 39 Aims For A Colored Bash Prompt  Phoronix

Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in  The Register

AMD’s Next-Gen Zen 5 CPUs Receive Support in Latest Linux Patch  Wccftech

Canonical takes its LXD 'containervisor' back into the house  The Register

What's new and cool in the 6.4 Linux kernel  ZDNet

What's new and cool in the 6.4 Linux kernel  ZDNet

The Intel Xeon Max 9480 flagship Sapphire Rapids CPU with HBM2e memory tops out at 56 cores / 112 threads, so how can that compete with the latest AMD EPYC processors hitting 96 cores for Genoa (or 120 cores with the forthcoming Bergamo)? Besides the on-package HBM2e that is unique to the Xeon Max family, the other ace that Xeon Max holds with the rest of the Sapphire Rapids line-up is support for the Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). In today's benchmarks of the Intel Xeon Max performance is precisely showing the impact of how HBM2e and AMX in order to compete -- and outperform -- AMD's EPYC 9554 and 9654 processors in AI workloads when effectively leveraging AMX and the onboard HBM2e memory.

Ubuntu's NVIDIA Unified Device Architecture (UDA) driver package intended for GPU compute acceleration has enabled the NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel driver support in their packages since the end of last year. Now with the new NVIDIA Enterprise Ready Driver "ERD" Ubuntu package hitting Ubuntu LTS users, they are also supporting the NVIDIA open GPU kernel driver option there...

Fedora Workstation devs face community backlash over plans to ...  ITPro

As was anticipated, UEFI Unaccepted Memory support was successfully merged for Linux 6.5 to support this standard that's important with the likes of Intel Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Page (SEV-SNP) backed virtual machines...

Unaccepted Memory Merged For Linux 6.5, Helping AMD SEV-SNP ...  Phoronix

Hopefully by now all of you have moved off PS/2 mice and keyboards, but should you still have some old systems chugging along with PS/2 hardware, there are some improvements to find with the Linux 6.5 kernel currently under development...

Linux 6.5 Bringing Improvements To PS/2 Mouse & Keyboard Handling  Phoronix

AMD's GPUOpen team on Thursday released the newest version of their Advanced Media Framework "AMF" SDK for Linux and Windows developers...