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Snapdragon-Powered Acer Aspire 1 Laptop Nearing Mainline Linux Support

Phoronix - Thu, 03/16/2023 - 00:50
While Lenovo's ThinkPad X13s has generated a fair amount of attention for being a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC powered Arm laptop that supports running on the mainline Linux kernel, another option on the way is the Acer Aspire 1 that also makes use of a Qualcomm Soc...

Fedora Workstation 38 Is Shaping Up To Be Another Fantastic Release

Phoronix - Thu, 03/16/2023 - 00:00
I've been playing around with the current development state of Fedora 38 the past few days on several test boxes. While only reaching Fedora 38 Beta this week, it already feels quite polished and stable. To sum it up quite simply, Fedora Workstation 38 is looking like it will be another fantastic release and continuing the modern Fedora Project trend of putting out a bleeding-edge Linux distribution yet production-ready and with far less blemishes compared to releases from years ago...

Linux 6.4 Looking To Drop The SLOB Memory Allocator

Phoronix - Wed, 03/15/2023 - 19:00
A patch series is proposing that the SLOB memory allocator be removed from the Linux 6.4 kernel this summer...

Open3D 0.17 Released For Open-Source 3D Data Processing

Phoronix - Wed, 03/15/2023 - 18:38
Open3D as an open-source library for 3D data processing from 3D machine learning tasks to adaptable viewing of 3D data is out with its newest feature release...

SPECFEM3D 4.0 Released With AMD HIP GPU Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/15/2023 - 18:19
The latest notable high performance computing (HPC) open-source project adding mainline support for AMD HIP with ROCm is SPECFEM3D...

GCC 13 Adds RISC-V T-Head Vendor Extension Collection

Phoronix - Wed, 03/15/2023 - 18:11
Being merged today into the GCC 13 compiler is the set of T-Head vendor extensions to the RISC-V ISA. This set of vendor extensions is designed to augment the RISC-V ISA and provide faster and more energy efficient capabilities...

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