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SoftBank Acquiring ARM Server CPU Vendor Ampere Computing

Phoronix - Thu, 03/20/2025 - 07:38
SoftBank Group just announced they will be acquiring Ampere Computing, the leader in ARM64 server processors that has come under increasing pressure with more of the public cloud service providers like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon/AWS turning to their own in-house ARM64 server processor designs...

Fedora 43 Hopes To Set An Expectation That Package Builds Are Reproducible

Phoronix - Thu, 03/20/2025 - 04:26
A change proposal filed for the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 development cycles hopes to establish an expectation that RPM package builds for the distribution are reproducible...

GNOME 48 Released With New Default Font, HDR Support, New Audio Player & More

Phoronix - Thu, 03/20/2025 - 00:38
GNOME 48 is officially out as the newest stable release for this open-source desktop that will be powering the likes of Fedora Workstation 42 and Ubuntu 25.04...

Another Round Of Rust Compiler Improvements Merged For GCC 15.1

Phoronix - Wed, 03/19/2025 - 23:28
A few days ago there was a batch of 145 patches merged for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to enhance the Rust "gccrs" front-end. That big set of patches merged the Polonius borrow checker and made other notable improvements. Today another 144 patches for enhancing gccrs were merged ahead of the GCC 15.1 stable release due out in the coming weeks...

Intel Wrapping Up Family 18 / Family 19 CPU Model Preparations Ahead Of Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Wed, 03/19/2025 - 22:20
Over the past year Intel has been working to prepare the Linux kernel for the end of the "Family 6" CPU era. There's been a big rework to the Intel CPU model handling within the Linux kernel given that "Family 6" has been in use since the 1990s and moving forward Intel CPUs will appear in Family 19 like Diamond Rapids along with Family 18 as part of the new CPU identification. Thus a lot of Linux kernel checks need to be reconfigured for the multi-family Intel handling. With Linux 6.15 it looks like most of that will be finally wrapped up...

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