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Intel AMX Support Lands In The GNU Assembler

Phoronix - Sun, 07/12/2020 - 21:14
Intel's open-source compiler engineers have been quite timely in getting the Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) support out in the relevant components since Intel formally outlined AMX in last month's programming reference manual...

Intel DG1 Graphics Card Bring-Up On Linux Continues - Latest Bits For Local Memory

Phoronix - Sun, 07/12/2020 - 20:38
Recently there have been a lot of open-source Linux patches flowing concerning Intel's bring-up of their DG1 discrete graphics card for developers. That work continued this week with the latest patches in wiring up LMEM support...

Fedora Approves Of Making Nano The Default Terminal Text Editor, Other Features Accepted

Phoronix - Sun, 07/12/2020 - 19:04
At this week's Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) meeting, more features were approved for the Fedora 33 release due out this fall...

Canonical Is Using Mir To Bring Flutter To Wayland

Phoronix - Sun, 07/12/2020 - 18:48
This week Canonical and Google announced they were working together to bring the Flutter application toolkit to Ubuntu/Linux. Flutter is the cross-platform, open-source UI toolkit developed by Google for use from Android to Linux and iOS and Fuschia as well as for web interfaces...

Linux 5.9 Will Finally Offer Proper Support For The ThinkPad 10 Ultrabook Keyboard

Phoronix - Sun, 07/12/2020 - 18:01
While Lenovo recently committed to certifying more systems for Linux use and upstreaming drivers / hardware support for Linux moving forward, there remains a backlog of existing Lenovo devices that still have less than desire Linux support. But thanks to Red Hat and others, the hardware support does continue advancing...

Recovering audio from a lost format with open source

opensource.com - Sun, 07/12/2020 - 15:00

Back in the early 2000s, we made a family decision to upgrade the living room stereo. The equipment in place at the time was based on a collection of gear that I had purchased some 20 years earlier when I first had a steady post-university income.


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Linus Torvalds: "I Hope AVX512 Dies A Painful Death"

Phoronix - Sun, 07/12/2020 - 08:39
Linux creator Linus Torvalds had some choice words today on Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) found on select Intel processors...

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