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Loongson's 3A6000 Brings Simultaneous Multi-Threading To LoongArch

Phoronix - Thu, 06/15/2023 - 19:00
Since last month Loongson engineers have begun posting Linux patches enabling their upcoming 3A6000 series LoongArch processors under Linux. Yesterday they posted new patches and revealed that Loongson 3A6000 processors support Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT)...

Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.39 Released With OpenJDK 20 Support

Phoronix - Thu, 06/15/2023 - 18:51
Following Oracle releasing an updated GraalVM this week, released yesterday was a new version of Eclipse OpenJ9 for this high performance, open-source JVM...

Microsoft's Linux Distro Now Ships With NVMe Multi-Path Support, Upgrades More Tools

Phoronix - Thu, 06/15/2023 - 18:12
Microsoft's CBL-Mariner team has published v2.0.20230609 as the newest update to their in-house Linux distribution that is used for a variety of purposes inside and outside the Redond company...

Valves Roll Out Big Steam Update With UI Refresh, Redesigned In-Game Overlay & Notes

Phoronix - Thu, 06/15/2023 - 09:53
Following recent Steam client beta updates that have introduced many new features, Valve tonight rolled out a rather big Steam client update to stable users...

AMD Publishes Initial openSIL Open-Source CPU Silicon Initialization Code

Phoronix - Thu, 06/15/2023 - 02:06
Following an exciting AMD AI Day yesterday where they launched the Ryzen PRO 7000 series for desktops and laptops, launched Genoa-X and Bergamo server processors, and introduced the MI300X, there is additional exciting news today... AMD just published the code for their new openSIL project that is working on open-source CPU silicon initialization with Coreboot support and in the coming years will ultimately replace AGESA...

It's Recommended To Avoid Using The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver On Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Thu, 06/15/2023 - 01:48
It's recommended to avoid using the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" graphics driver on the current stable Linux 6.3 series as there is a serious bug present that could cause varying issues to your system...

LibreOffice 7.6 Beta Available For This Excellent Open-Source Office Suite

Phoronix - Thu, 06/15/2023 - 01:30
Ahead of the stable release being planned for August, today marks the availability of LibreOffice 7.6 Beta 1 for those wanting to help in testing this leading open-source, cross-platform office suite...

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