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AMD ROCm 7.0 Begins Rocking Out On GitHub

Phoronix - Tue, 09/16/2025 - 17:55
As a pleasant surprise waking up this morning is AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags beginning to appear on GitHub, indicating the likely imminent official release of the ROCm 7.0 compute stack as the open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct software stack aimed to be the open alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem...

Fedora Workstation 43 Beta Is Running Well On AMD Strix Halo / Framework Desktop

Phoronix - Tue, 09/16/2025 - 17:00
Fedora 43 Beta is releasing today as we work toward the official release in either late October or early November. I have been testing out the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta candidate to great success on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" powered Framework Desktop. Here are some benchmarks of Fedora Workstation 42 compared to the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta.

Intel USBIO USB IO Expander Drivers Expected To Be Merged For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Tue, 09/16/2025 - 15:00
Queued up in the past few days to the USB subsystem's "usb-next" Git branch are the Intel USBIO drivers for Linux 6.18. These drivers are needed to support the web cameras on various newer Intel laptop models...

Top 6 Linux Apps You Should Install This Week (Sept 15-21)

Tecmint - Tue, 09/16/2025 - 13:00
The post Top 6 Linux Apps You Should Install This Week (Sept 15-21) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

It isn’t easy to figure out which of the many Linux apps out there are actually worth installing. Between endless

The post Top 6 Linux Apps You Should Install This Week (Sept 15-21) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux Patches Posted For Enabling The Tenstorrent Blackhole SoC

Phoronix - Tue, 09/16/2025 - 12:00
Patches were posted this past weekend for enabling the mainline Linux kernel to run on the Tenstorrent Blackwhole SoC of A0 silicon on the Blackhole P100 and P150 PCIe accelerator cards...

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