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For those that haven't yet watched the AMD openSIL presentation from the OCP Regional Summit in Prague from April, the most interesting takeaway was deserving of its own article... AMD openSIL is planned to eventually replace the well known AGESA and that it will be supported across AMD's entire processor stack -- just not limited to EPYC server processors as some were initially concerned but will support all AMD processors...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Increases Instruction Heap - Fix For ...  Phoronix

Intel's ANV open-source Vulkan driver has increased its instruction heap size to 2Gb in order to address a hang experienced with the game Overwatch while this is also likely to help other software/games moving forward...

Going back to mid-2022 AMD engineers have been working on Virtual NMI support with SVM for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) as an efficiency optimization. With the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel the AMD VNMI support has been merged...

AMD Virtual NMI Support For KVM Virtualization Merged Into Linux 6.4  Phoronix

GOG reveal some stats on how they're doing  GamingOnLinux

Linux Cell Phone? Build OURPhone  Hackaday

Dead by Daylight now works on Linux desktop and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

While Intel Thunder Bay sparked rumors years ago as potentially being a mix of Intel x86 cores and Movidius VPU cores, although the Linux patches put it as ARM cores paired with the Movidius VPU, Thunder Bay is no more. As I wrote back in March, Intel Linux engineers have acknowledged Thunder Bay is cancelled and there are no end-customers/users so they are going ahead and removing the Linux support...

Linux 6.4 Closes The Door On Intel Thunder Bay  Phoronix

Chinese tech company Loongson continues working on improving the upstream Linux kernel support for their MIPS-derived, RISC-V-inspired domestic CPU architecture. With the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel is another batch of optimizations and implementing more kernel functionality for the LoongArch CPU architecture...

LoongArch With Linux 6.4 Lands Optimizations, New Functionality  Phoronix

The reference AVIF image encoder for the AV1 Image File Format has added experimental support for AV2, the next-generation codec that remains in development by the Alliance for Open Media...

Dav1d as the open-source AV1 video decoder developed as part of the VideoLAN project is out with a new minor feature release...

How to fix Opera not displaying Facebook and Twitter videos issue on Linux  ZDNet

How to fix Opera not displaying Facebook and Twitter videos issue on Linux  ZDNet

PicoVNA 5 software for vector network analyzers supports Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Raspberry Pi  CNX Software

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Portable Document Format or PDF is one of the most popular file formats, mainly due to its unified standard across platforms and devices, compatibility,

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A common definition of environmental sustainability is meeting the resource and services needs of current and future generations without compromising the health of the ecosystems that provide them. In addition to ongoing discussions around government regulation, investors and asset managers are increasingly demanding carbon disclosure from their portfolio companies. Investment in environmental funds is soaring—with some reports pegging it at over $40 trillion. Even though specific actions taken by businesses are arguably still limited in overall impact, it’s nonetheless an increasingly

Intel Posts New Linux Patches For Cluster Scheduling With Hybrid ...  Phoronix