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Rust Is Ready With Robust Toolchain Handling For Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Thu, 07/25/2024 - 18:13
Miguel Ojeda has sent out the big Rust pull request for the nearly wrapped up Linux 6.11 merge window. This contains all of the latest Rust programming language infrastructure now ready for the mainline kernel...

HID-BPF Improvements & Apple Keyboard Backlight Support For Some T2 Macs In Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Thu, 07/25/2024 - 18:10
The HID subsystem updates recently landed into the mainline Linux 6.11 kernel codebase...

ollama v0.3 Released With Llama 3.1 Support & Mistral Large 2

Phoronix - Thu, 07/25/2024 - 17:56
For fans of ollama as an open-source means for easily running large language models (LLMs) on your system, ollama v0.3 has been released with support for the newest exciting models...

Learn Basic Mathematical Operations in Bash Scripting – Part IV

Tecmint - Thu, 07/25/2024 - 15:00
The post Learn Basic Mathematical Operations in Bash Scripting – Part IV first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this post, I will be discussing the scripts from a mathematical and numerical point of view. Although I posted

The post Learn Basic Mathematical Operations in Bash Scripting – Part IV first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

ASUS ROG Ally X Begins Seeing Linux Patches

Phoronix - Thu, 07/25/2024 - 08:40
This weekend the ASUS ROG Ally X began shipping as an upgraded version of the ASUS ROG Ally handheld gaming console that launched last year. The ASUS ROG Ally X is still powered by the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme SoC and for the most part similar to the original model but now with 24GB of LPDDR5X-7500 memory up from 16GB of LPDDR5-6400, twice as large battery capacity, 1TB of NVMe storage rather than 512GB, improved input controls, improved cooling, and other refinements. But it still is running Microsoft Windows 11 out-of-the-box...

LLVM Clang Switches MMX Intrinsics To Use SSE2 Instead

Phoronix - Thu, 07/25/2024 - 07:52
Following LLVM/Clang recently dropping support for AMD 3DNow! instructions, the open-source compiler stack is now pushing the MMX SIMD instruction set to a backseat. Moving forward the MMX intrinsics will not make use of MMX but rather be mapped to SSE2. This is all fine unless you are wanting to use this modern code compiler on an Intel Pentium MMX / Pentium II / Pentium III or AMD K6 / K7 processor from the late 90's...

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Launch Delayed To August

Phoronix - Thu, 07/25/2024 - 04:28
While we have been super eager for the AMD Ryzen 9000 series "Zen 5" desktop processor launch that's been set for 31 July, AMD has issued a last minute delay. Instead the processors will launch in two stages in August...

New AMD Linux Driver Patches Enable I3C HCI Support

Phoronix - Thu, 07/25/2024 - 02:19
One of the newest patch series out from AMD this week is on providing I3C HCI driver support for their MIPI I3C IP block found within their latest processors...

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