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Linux 6.18 Ships With A New Python App In The Source Tree

Phoronix - Thu, 10/09/2025 - 18:40
Merged overnight to the Linux 6.18 kernel were all of the perf subsystem tool updates. Notable with the perf tooling updates is a new Python application living within the kernel source tree...

PoCL 7.1 Released For Bringing OpenCL To More Devices

Phoronix - Thu, 10/09/2025 - 18:36
PoCL 7.1 is now available for this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that brings OpenCL to CPUs and other devices/accelerators via support for the various LLVM back-ends such as NVIDIA PTX, Intel GPUs via Level Zero, etc...

FEX 2510 Brings More Optimizations For x86_64 Binaries On AArch64

Phoronix - Thu, 10/09/2025 - 18:12
FEX 2510 is out as the newest release of this open-source emulator for running x86/x86_64 applications on ARM64 (AArch64) Linux devices. Making FEX all the more popular is its continued ability for running Wine/Proton for handling Windows games on ARM64 Linux...

Ubuntu 25.10 Released With GNOME 49, Linux 6.17 & Other Upgrades

Phoronix - Thu, 10/09/2025 - 17:55
Canonical just officially announced the release of Ubuntu 25.10 as the newest non-LTS release of Ubuntu Linux...

GNU C Library Lands Detection For Intel Nova Lake & Wildcat Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 10/09/2025 - 17:49
So far the upstream GCC compiler hasn't seen any target enablement for Intel's future Nova Lake processors (a.k.a. -march=novalake support) but merged yesterday for the GNU C Library was initial targeting for Nova Lake as well as Wildcat Lake...

10 Essential Linux Commands for Data Scientists

Tecmint - Thu, 10/09/2025 - 15:02
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If you’re just starting your journey into data science, you might think it’s all about Python libraries, Jupyter notebooks, and

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AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month

Phoronix - Thu, 10/09/2025 - 04:30
Last month the Alliance for Open Media "AOMedia" began teasing that the AV2 video codec will release later this year. They have now sent us word that later this month will be a virtual event talking more about this successor to AV1...

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