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Open-Source & Rust-Written Burn MATMUL Kernels Can Compete With NVIDIA's CUDA/cuBLAS

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 18:40
The open-source and Rust-based Burn deep learning framework developed by Tracel AI shared that their open-source matrix multiplication kernel performance can compete with and even outperform the NVIDIA CUDA cuBLAS performance. Plus Burn isn't limited to just NVIDIA GPUs but can work on most hardware/drivers, including a Vulkan back-end...

Wayland Color Management For HDR Under Review For Chrome/Chromium

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 18:21
The latest software with pending Wayland color management support for enabling HDR display support is the open-source Google Chromium code for the Chrome web browser...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Brings Rounded Bottom Corners For Windows By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 17:57
KDE Plasma 6.5 is introducing a change that has been "years in the wanting" and that is rounded bottom corners for windows...

Arch Linux AUR Packages For Firefox & Other Browsers Removed For Containing Malware

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 12:00
While the Arch Linux AUR repository can be popular for fetching some packages not found in Arch Linux proper, it's important to keep in mind that AUR stands for the Arch User Repository. These user packages aren't always the best and rarely can be done with malicious intent as shown this week with an advisory over several malicious browser packages being briefly pedaled through AUR...

Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 06:01
The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just for Intel platforms but even showing extremely great performance results on AMD x86_64 too. But with the cost-cutting going on at Intel, Clear Linux is now being sunset...

Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.16-rc7

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 04:44
As we await to see what Linus Torvalds will end up doing about the Bcachefs file-system come Linux 6.17, for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle he continues to honor the Bcachefs pull requests containing fixes...

Ubuntu 25.10 Raspberry Pi Images Will Be Much Leaner

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 01:15
The Ubuntu 25.10 images geared for the Raspberry Pi will be much more lean than current Ubuntu Linux releases for the Raspberry Pi thanks to changes merged this week...

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