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Linux 6.18 Landing Patch For Old AMD Bulldozer CPUs With XOP Instruction Set

Phoronix - Fri, 09/26/2025 - 18:30
The Linux 6.18 kernel is bringing a new patch to benefit those using the decade-old AMD Bulldozer processors and wanting to make use of Linux's X86_NATIVE_CPU build option for enhancing performance in some areas by optimizing the kernel build for your particular processor/ISA capabilities...

Mesa 25.3 Intel Driver Lands Support For Stochastic Rounding

Phoronix - Fri, 09/26/2025 - 18:12
A new feature merged this week for the Intel Mesa compiler code for their ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D drivers is support for Stochastic Rounding...

System76 Releases Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta Alongside COSMIC Desktop Beta

Phoronix - Fri, 09/26/2025 - 17:42
Overnight the Linux PC vendor System76 released their long-awaited Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta operating system along with the beta milestone of their COSMIC desktop environment...

AMD's GAIA For GenAI Adds Linux Support: Using Vulkan For GPUs, No NPUs Yet

Phoronix - Fri, 09/26/2025 - 08:26
Back in March AMD announced the open-source GAIA software for GenAI but as noted in that former article, at launch it was limited to Windows-only support. AMD recently released a new version of GAIA with Linux support albeit in a rather interesting twist is limited to Vulkan acceleration...

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