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System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 7 Desktop - Last Step Before Beta

Phoronix - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 08:27
Following the COSMIC Alpha 6 release from February, System76 today released COSMIC Alpha 7 as their last planned alpha release for this open-source, Rust-written desktop environment designed around the needs of their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Can Work Well As A Solid Linux Laptop

Phoronix - Thu, 04/24/2025 - 23:00
The Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Strix Point is now shipping that as detailed in our review earlier this month can provide for a very capable Linux laptop for Linux developers, creators, and enthusiasts. But for those hesitant about the high price and still weeks away before they have shipped all their pre-orders, if you are principally concerned about battery life, and/or after proven build quality backed by on-site warranty and other warranty/support options, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition ends up being a solid option for a very reliable and well-engineered laptop for Linux use. Here is a look at the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition on Linux that is powered by Intel Lunar Lake.

SCALE 1.3 Adds BFloat16 & Other New Features For Compiling CUDA Apps On AMD GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 04/24/2025 - 21:55
A new software project covered on Phoronix last year was SCALE for natively compiling CUDA applications for AMD GPUs. This "clean room" implementation of CUDA building off the open-source LLVM codebase continues going strong and out this week is SCALE 1.3 with more features and hardware support for compiling CUDA software for AMD GPU execution...

Linux 6.15 Fixes A Performance Issue For Extremely Heavy Read-Only Workloads

Phoronix - Thu, 04/24/2025 - 20:30
Completely separate from the big performance regression I noted earlier this week for the Linux 6.15 Git kernel and fixed yesterday in the upstream codebase, another significant performance issue was also uncovered and fixed this week in Linux 6.15 Git...

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