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AMD Expands ROCm Support On Windows WSL To More Ryzen Hardware

Phoronix - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 19:43
Back in March AMD announced the open-source ROCDXG library for improved ROCm support on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). The ROCDXG-based solution provides better ROCm compatibility within these Linux confines atop Windows 11 compared to their prior, now-legacy-based WSL support. A new ROCDXG release now available further expands the ROCm WSL2 support to more Ryzen hardware...

AMD Geode CPU Support Being Orphaned By Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 18:35
For those with fond memories of the AMD Geode x86 embedded processors, the Linux kernel is set to orphan these since discontinued and obsolete CPUs...

Intel Kernel Graphics Driver Brings Panel Replay Tunneling For Linux 7.2

Phoronix - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 18:22
Now that the Linux v7.1 merge window is well past, Intel kernel graphics driver engineers are busy prepping new feature code for introduction for targeting the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer...

GCC Git Lands Fix For Missing AVX-512 Optimizations On AMD Zen 6

Phoronix - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 18:06
Last week marked the release of GCC 16.1 as the first GCC 16 stable release. While that release introduces initial AMD Zen 6 "znver6" support well in advance of those next-generation AMD processors debuting, it's not yet in perfect shape with just today two missing optimizations around AVX-512 having been merged...

How to Recover Deleted Files in Linux Before They’re Gone

Tecmint - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 12:00
The post How to Recover Deleted Files in Linux Before They’re Gone first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

You deleted a log file mid-session, a running process is still writing to it, and ls shows nothing, but the

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