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Intel Sends In More Habana Labs Gaudi2 AI Accelerator Code For Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Fri, 10/14/2022 - 02:45
The "char/misc" changes landed recently into mainline for the ongoing Linux 6.1 merge window. In addition to many FPGA subsystem updates, this random catch-all driver area of the kernel has also seen many updates to the Habana Labs AI driver for supporting Intel's forthcoming Gaudi2 accelerator...

PostgreSQL 15 Released With Better Sort Performance, Supports LZ4 & Zstd Compression

Phoronix - Thu, 10/13/2022 - 22:16
PostgreSQL 15 is out today as the newest major feature release to this leading open-source database solution...

FEX-Emu 2210 Eyes Emulating AVX On Arm, Various Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 10/13/2022 - 20:10
FEX-Emu as the open-source project aiming for speedy x86/x86_64 games and other software on Arm AArch64 including the likes of Steam has issued their newest feature update. FEX-Emu 2210 is today's newest release for this binary emulator and continues on a nice trajectory for being able to enjoy x86 64-bit binaries on modern Arm Linux systems...

Debian 14 Codenamed "Forky"

Phoronix - Thu, 10/13/2022 - 18:10
The upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 12 release is codenamed "Bookworm" and is expected to be released in 2023. Meanwhile Debian 13 will be out around 2025 and it was already announced under the Trixie codename. Now today it's been announced that Debian 14 come 2027 will also be known as the "Forky" release...

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