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Linux 6.14-rc5 Released: "Nothing Strange Stands Out"

Phoronix - Mon, 03/03/2025 - 04:00
Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.14-rc5 kernel as the Linux 6.14 stable kernel approaches toward release later in March...

NVIDIA Is Finding Great Success With Vulkan Machine Learning - Competitive With CUDA

Phoronix - Sun, 03/02/2025 - 23:00
It's not only AMD that is working on Vulkan/SPIR-V support for machine learning / AI software but NVIDIA has been working on improvements too for enhancing Vulkan-powered machine learning software. The outlook for using Vulkan within machine learning software is quite positive and even able to offer similar performance to NVIDIA's prized CUDA...

TurnkeyML 6.0 Released With OpenAI-Compatible Server, Other Changes

Phoronix - Sun, 03/02/2025 - 19:32
Back in 2023 ONNX and AMD announced TurnkeyML as an "AI insights toolchain". There hasn't been too much news about TurnkeyML since then and they now describe the project itself as a "no-code AI toolchain" while this week brought the release of the big TurnkeyML 6.0 software...

Steam Survey For February 2025 Shows A Big Drop To Linux Use

Phoronix - Sun, 03/02/2025 - 19:25
Back during January Steam on Linux dropped by 0.23% to a 2.06% marketshare while overnight the numbers were published for February 2025.....

ARM Linux Kernel May Shift To Generic Entry Code: Less Assembly But Lower Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 03/02/2025 - 19:16
A pull request was sent out on Friday that could potentially land for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel to transition ARM's kernel entry code from some architecture-specific Assembly over to using the generic entry code path. It means more unification and transitioning some Assembly code over to C, but it also comes with some hits to performance...

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