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Gentoo Linux To See Improved ARM64 Support Thanks To An Ampere Altra Max Server

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 22:47
Gentoo Linux will be working on better support for ARM64/AArch64 and 32-bit ARM now that they have received an Ampere Altra Max server to help expedite their ARM build times for binary packages and installation stage builds...

openSUSE Leap 16.0 Pre-Alpha Available, GA Next October

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 20:56
While not expected to reach general availability (GA) state until October of 2025, available today in pre-alpha form is the openSUSE Leap 16.0 distribution...

RPM 4.20 Released With Declarative Build System Support, Public Plugin API

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 20:47
RPM 4.20 is out today as the newest feature release to this package manager system that's been in development the past year and featuring a variety of improvements for the likes of RHEL and Fedora based distributions...

The Speedy Ptyxis Terminal Emulator Available On Ubuntu 24.10

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 18:59
For those on Debian experimental or planning on upgrading to Ubuntu 24.10 that is releasing this week, the Ptyxis terminal emulator is now available in the package archive if wanting to try out this speedy terminal option...

Linus Torvalds Asks Kernel Developers To Write Better Git Merge Commit Messages

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 18:45
Yesterday when announcing the Linux 6.12-rc2 kernel, Linus Torvalds asked that the kernel maintainers do a better job moving forward with their commit messages...

NVGRACE-GPU VFIO Driver Preparing For NVIDIA Grace Blackwell

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 18:39
The NVGRACE-GPU VFIO driver was introduced for handling Virtual Function I/O support with the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip so that the GPU device could be assigned to guests using KVM/QEMU and similar for virtualization. The NVGRACE-GPU driver is now being extended for supporting the forthcoming NVIDIA Grace Blackwell "GB" designs...

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