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AMD Releases ROCm 5.7.1 With rocBLAS-GEMM-Tune & Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 20:37
AMD on Friday released ROCm 5.7.1 as their latest tagged release to this open-source GPU compute stack that continues progressing to better take on NVIDIA CUDA and Intel oneAPI...

Mesa 23.3 Lands Support For Rusticl On Zink To Have OpenCL Atop Vulkan Drivers

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 20:22
Merged for this quarter's Mesa 23.3 release is the ability to have the Rusticl Rust-written OpenCL driver running atop Zink, the Gallium3D driver known for OpenGL-on-Vulkan. With Rusticl on Zink this now means getting this OpenCL 3.0 driver working atop Vulkan hardware drivers...

FreeBSD 14 Nears Release With Support For Up To 1024 CPU Cores, Updated Drivers

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 18:44
The release candidate is out this weekend for FreeBSD 14.0 as the developers work toward releasing FreeBSD 14 stable in early November...

KDE Plasma 6 Has New Role For "F10", Kate/KWrite Text-To-Speech & Smooth Scrolling

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 18:34
It was another exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 space with a number of notable new features being merged...

PXN V900 Racing Wheel Support Added To Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 18:19
The PXN V900 gaming racing wheel is supported now by the mainline Linux kernel as of last night with the latest merged changes for the v6.6 kernel...

Wine 8.18 Released WIth Continued Work On Wayland Window Management

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 07:57
Wine 8.18 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source program for running Windows applications and games on Linux. Wine 8.18 is another step closer to Wine 9.0 stable that is due out in early 2024...

OpenZFS 2.2 Released With Block Cloning, Linux Container Support & Better Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 01:36
OpenZFS 2.2 was promoted to stable today as the latest major update to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems. With OpenZFS 2.2 comes many exciting new features, performance improvements, and other enhancements for this evolution of open-source ZFS...

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