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Another Arrow Lake Graphics Device ID Being Added To Intel's Linux Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 09/10/2024 - 18:00
The Intel Arrow Lake Linux graphics driver support appears largely wrapped up following a patch for properly handling the necessary GSC firmware requirements and building off all the existing Meteor Lake Arc Graphics driver code paths. There are a number of Arrow Lake PCI device IDs already present for the graphics while a new one is being added now to the kernel drivers...

Canonical Shipping Updated Intel TDX Software For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Phoronix - Tue, 09/10/2024 - 17:42
Last year Canonical delivered an Intel TDX "tech preview" for Ubuntu 23.10 to experiment with using Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) found on the latest Xeon server processors. With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS they began shipping a formal TDX software stack and now have rolled out an update to that software stack as a stable release update...

How to Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/PhpMyAdmin) in Arch Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 09/10/2024 - 14:00
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Arch Linux provides a flexible cutting-edge system environment and is a powerfully suited solution for developing web applications on small

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Mesa 24.3 Removes Support For The Long-Abandoned OpenMAX API

Phoronix - Tue, 09/10/2024 - 08:25
Some long-rotting code in Mesa has been flushed out today... Mesa 24.3 is now 11.6k lines of code lighter after removing support for the OpenMAX (OMX) API that was implemented as a Gallium3D state tracker long ago and hasn't seen any activity in recent years and the upstream OpenMAX standards work halted more than one decade ago...

Intel Efficiency Latency Control "ELC" Feature Slated For Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Tue, 09/10/2024 - 04:11
Last month I wrote about Intel Linux engineers working on a new Efficiency Latency Control feature for their uncore driver. This ELC option allows for adjusting the behavior of the Intel uncore for efficiency versus latency characteristics. Those Intel ELC patches to the TPMI uncore driver are now queued up for merging with the upcoming Linux 6.12 cycle...

Latest "sched/rt" Commits Point To PREEMPT_RT Potentially Being Ready For Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Tue, 09/10/2024 - 02:38
Excitement is building that the real-time kernel "PREEMPT_RT" support might finally be ready for the mainline kernel as soon as the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window. It will be interesting to see if that long-awaited day finally comes this month but recently noted patches have now been queued into tip/tip.git's "sched/rt" branch ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window...

AWS Graviton4 vs. AmpereOne 192-Core Benchmarks For Leading AArch64 Server Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 09/09/2024 - 23:15
With the Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD server that's in the lab for a few weeks for reviewing the AmpereOne A192-32X and delivering the first independent benchmarks of the AmpereOne 192-core AArch64 server processor, the AmpereOne benchmarks to date have been comparing to other Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server platforms. But if looking up to the cloud is the closest AArch64 server competition to AmpereOne there is: Amazon's Graviton4. In today's article ia showdown looking at how AmpereOne and AWS Graviton4 compete at 192 cores for ARM 64-bit server performance.

Redox OS 0.9 Brings COSMIC Apps, Better Performance & Improved Linux App Compatibility

Phoronix - Mon, 09/09/2024 - 21:54
Redox OS 0.9 has been released today as a big update to this from-scratch Rust-written open-source operating system...

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