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Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Released With Linux 6.14 HWE Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 08/07/2025 - 22:35
Canonical just announced the release of Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS as the newest point release for this long-term support (LTS) operating system across desktop, server, and cloud...

Heterogeneous CPU Cores, HDMI & Other Work Continues For Enhancing FreeBSD On Laptops

Phoronix - Thu, 08/07/2025 - 22:29
It's just not Microsoft Windows and to a lesser extent Linux that can have challenges in dealing with heterogeneous CPU cores like Intel P/E hybrid cores but FreeBSD developers have begun working through those headaches too in trying to ensure a good experience of modern laptops running this BSD operating system...

Rust 1.89 Released With More AVX-512 Intrinsics & x86 Target Features

Phoronix - Thu, 08/07/2025 - 20:28
Rust 1.89 is out today as the newest update to this popular programming language implementation prided by its memory safety features and more...

Flang-Tidy Cleaning/Correcting Fortran Code In "Sort Of Opinionated Fashion"

Phoronix - Thu, 08/07/2025 - 18:53
Similar to Clang-Tidy for tidying up C/C++ code using LLVM/Clang components, Flang-Tidy is in development as a tool for Fortran static analysis built upon LLVM's modern Flang compiler code. Flang-Tidy may be upstreamed in the future to LLVM while for now it's developed by TU Munich and Max Planck Computing...

Linux 6.17 Will Correctly Map By Default F13 To F24 Keys On PS/2 Keyboards

Phoronix - Thu, 08/07/2025 - 18:25
It has taken until 2025 for the AT/PS2 keyboard driver to map F13 through F24 function keys by default. But that day has come and the support was merged today as part of the input driver changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel...

Intel Phasing Out 16x MSAA Support - Being Disabled With Xe3 Graphics

Phoronix - Thu, 08/07/2025 - 18:07
Intel is phasing out 16x multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) with modern upscaling tech like XeSS / FSR / DLSS being superior and more performant plus there being alternative anti-aliasing techniques. Upcoming Xe3 graphics are seeing 16x MSAA support retroactively disabled as the Intel graphics driver moves away from this highest-level MSAA sampling count...

Linux 6.17 SoundWire Support Extended To Upcoming AMD ACP 7.2 Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 08/07/2025 - 18:00
The Linux 6.17 sound subsystem code last week introduced support for AMD ACP 7.2 as the next version of AMD's Audio Co-Processor IP. This appears to be for yet-to-be-released hardware and now over in the SoundWire subsystem is similar enablement work landing for AMD ACP 7.2...

PyTorch 2.8 Released With Better Intel CPU Performance For LLM Inference

Phoronix - Thu, 08/07/2025 - 08:50
PyTorch 2.8 released today as the newest feature update to this widely-used machine learning library that has become a crucial piece for deep learning and other AI usage. There are a few interesting changes worth highlighting with the new PyTorch 2.8 release...

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