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AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source  Phoronix

While there have been efforts by AMD over the years to make it easier to port codebases targeting NVIDIA's CUDA API to run atop HIP/ROCm, it still requires work on the part of developers. The tooling has improved such as with HIPIFY to help in auto-generating but it isn't any simple, instant, and guaranteed solution -- especially if striving for optimal performance. Over the past two years AMD has quietly been funding an effort though to bring binary compatibility so that many NVIDIA CUDA applications could run atop the AMD ROCm stack at the library level -- a drop-in replacement without the need to adapt source code. In practice for many real-world workloads, it's a solution for end-users to run CUDA-enabled software without any developer intervention. Here is more information on this "skunkworks" project that is now available as open-source along with some of my own testing and performance benchmarks of this CUDA implementation built for Radeon GPUs.

Avoid Pacman Headaches on Arch Linux by Automating Mirror List Updates  How-To Geek

The best Linux distros for 2024  Android Authority

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Boosts Linux Capabilities with eBPF Sensor  BNN Breaking

SparkyLinux 2024.02 Improves CLI Installer, Adds More Debian Trixie Updates  9to5Linux

At the end of last year OpenZFS 2.2.2 was released to fix a rare but nasty data corruption issue but it turns out there are other data corruption bug(s) still lurking in the OpenZFS file-system codebase...

OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns  Phoronix

Linux 6.9 To Support Samsung Wireless Gamepad, Keyboards & Action Mouse  Phoronix

Samsung engineers have been extending their "samsung" HID driver to support more of their wireless input devices by the mainline Linux kernel...

Code merged today to mainline LLVM is preparing for the notion of generic targets across the GFX9, GFX10, and GFX11 GPU families. With follow-on work these generic targets are aiming to allow compiling code once and then running across multiple GPUs in the given hardware family...

The 64-bit Arm (AArch64) little-endian kernel will be ready to support the Rust kernel code with the upcoming Linux 6.9 cycle...

Linux World Leaps Ahead: Debian 12.5, Fedora Atomic Desktops, GNOME 46 Beta, and More  BNN Breaking

Fedora Atomic Desktops: A New Family Of Fedora Linux Spins  It's FOSS News

Heroic Games Launcher v2.13 brings GOG support improvements  GamingOnLinux

Linux is moving into efficient and flexible manufacturing  Network World

Arch Linux Installation Guide Faces Challenges: Calls for Improvements  BNN Breaking

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Microsoft Introduces Linux-Like 'sudo' Command to Windows 11  The Hacker News