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LinuxBoot Joins The Open-Source Firmware Foundation

Phoronix - Sun, 06/12/2022 - 05:46
Established a few months ago was the Open-Source Firmware Foundation to promote open-source firmware usage throughout the industry. LinuxBoot is now the latest party joining the Open-Source Firmware Foundation...

DragonFlyBSD 6.2.2 Released With Fixes For HAMMER2, Kernel Bugs

Phoronix - Sun, 06/12/2022 - 05:29
DragonFlyBSD 6.2 was introduced back in January with the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver port, HAMMER2 improvements, and the NVMM hypervisor port, among other improvements. Out this weekend is DragonFlyBSD 6.2.2 with various bug-fixes atop that stable code-base...

KDE Developers Prepare More Fixes Ahead Of Plasma 5.25, Early Feature Work On 5.26

Phoronix - Sat, 06/11/2022 - 18:49
Ahead of the KDE Plasma 5.25 desktop release next week, KDE developers have been busy this past week with last minute fixes ahead of that half-year update as well as beginning early work for Plasma 5.26...

PoCL 3.0 Released With Minimal OpenCL 3.0 Implementation For CPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 06/11/2022 - 01:00
PoCL 3.0 has been formally released today for this portable OpenCL implementation that supports execution on CPUs or other back-ends by way of LLVM such as for targeting AMD HSA, NVIDIA GPUs, and other accelerators. With PoCL 3.0 comes initial OpenCL 3.0 support while the actual conformance results are still pending...

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