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SUSE Announces Better Support For NVIDIA CUDA

Phoronix - Thu, 09/25/2025 - 08:25
SUSE in partnership with NVIDIA today announced making the NVIDIA CUDA TOolkit officially available on all SUSE platforms...

More than meets the eye: Behind the scenes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (Part 2)

Red Hat News - Thu, 09/25/2025 - 08:00
This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we’ll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being.Part 1In our first post looking behind the scenes of how Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 came to be. We heard about the early stages that started right after Summit 2022 and the release of RHEL 9. This included assembling the team, setting expectations, and working with upstream communities to gather ideas. In part 2, the team behind RHEL

Qualcomm Announces X2 Elite SoCs - Up To 18 Cores & Up To 5.0GHz Boost Frequency

Phoronix - Thu, 09/25/2025 - 05:35
Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoCs as building off their X Elite laptop SoCs that shipped last year. With the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) flagship is 18 cores with a 5.0GHz single and dual core boost frequency...

Linux Laptop Vendor MALIBAL Attempting To Pursue Made-In-USA Laptops

Phoronix - Thu, 09/25/2025 - 01:05
Linux/Windows laptop vendor MALIBAL that caused quite a fuss last year when suggesting against supporting Coreboot and in turn blocked shipping of products to states/countries where the involved developers were located is now pursuing an initiative of made-in-America laptops. But it's going to be a lengthy journey and first they are soliciting investments to first pursue American-made keyboards and touchpads...

The Massive AI Performance Benefit With AMX On Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids"

Phoronix - Wed, 09/24/2025 - 22:20
Besides the support for MRDIMM-8800 memory, another distinct advantage of Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors is the continued presence of Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the impact of AMX on the Intel Xeon 6980P processors for AI inference workloads.

Mesa's PowerVR Vulkan Driver Gets Rid Of Its Old Hardcoded Shader Code

Phoronix - Wed, 09/24/2025 - 21:10
Imagination's open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa now is able to generate its different internal shaders required by the driver to forego shipping old hard-coded shaders...

Intel Moves Pre-Arc Graphics To "Legacy" Driver On Windows - Linux Users Need Not Worry

Phoronix - Wed, 09/24/2025 - 20:28
Intel announced this week that its moving its graphics driver support for integrated graphics on 11th Gen through 14th Gen processors over to their legacy driver model on Microsoft Windows. While this is a setback for those using Raptor Lake processors on Windows as well as the few Xe DG1 discrete graphics out there, Linux users don't have much to worry about...

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