Open-source News

Ubuntu 26.04 Allows "sudo apt install rocm" But It's Months Out-Of-Date

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2026 - 21:28
Canonical announced last year that in collaboration with AMD they would be bringing the ROCm software libraries into the Ubuntu archive for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The plan has been to ship AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC libraries in the Ubuntu archive so it would be as easy as sudo apt install rocm for getting started with AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. With today being the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release day, I decided to revisit the topic...

OpenBLAS 0.3.33 Released With Automatic "BIGNUMA" For More Than 256 CPU Cores

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2026 - 20:23
OpenBLAS 0.3.33 is out today as the latest update to this vendor-neutral, optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms "BLAS" library...

Many USB Improvements & New Hardware Merged For Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2026 - 18:28
Ready to go ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window closing at week's end are numerous new USB device support additions and other USB subsystem enhancements...

Linux 7.1 Lands The Apple SMC Power Driver For Reporting Battery Metrics On MacBooks

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2026 - 18:12
The Linux Multi-Function Device "MFD" subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 ahead of the merge window closing on Sunday...

Pages