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NVMe PCI Endpoint Function Target Driver Coming To Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Wed, 01/15/2025 - 23:45
An interesting new driver set to premiere in the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel is the NVMe PCI Endpoint Function Target code authored by Western Digital...

Triple Buffering Support Updated Against Latest GNOME 48 Code

Phoronix - Wed, 01/15/2025 - 21:45
It's been over four years now that the GNOME Mutter pull request has been open for introducing dynamic triple/double buffering support. It's still not clear that it will be ready for merging with GNOME 48 due out in March but at least the patches have been updated to work with the latest upstream Mutter code...

Linux 6.14 To Bring An Important Improvement For AMD Preferred Core

Phoronix - Wed, 01/15/2025 - 20:00
Being merged back in the Linux 6.9 kernel was AMD Preferred Core support within the amd_pstate driver for being able to communicate the "preferred" cores to the kernel for those that are able to reach a higher maximum frequency or otherwise be preferred over other CPU cores. For the upcoming Linux 6.14 merge window, an important set of patches are queued up for better positioning this Preferred Core handling...

Xen Hypervisor Support Being Worked On For RISC-V

Phoronix - Wed, 01/15/2025 - 19:31
Linux has supported KVM virtualization with RISC-V for several years while now patches are pending to introduce Xen hypervisor support for this CPU architecture for RISC-V guests...

libvirt 11.0 Released For Open-Source Virtualization API

Phoronix - Wed, 01/15/2025 - 19:11
Libvirt 11.0 was christened today as the newest version of this open-source Virtualization API for managing VMs on Linux and other platforms while supporting KVM, QEMU, Xen, VMware ESX, LXC, Bhyve, and other hypervisors...

LACT Linux GPU Control Panel Adds Support For Intel Graphics

Phoronix - Wed, 01/15/2025 - 16:00
In development for several years has been LACT as a Linux GPU Control Application to allow adjusting various GPU/driver settings via a convenient graphical application. AMD and NVIDIA graphics have been supported to date while now Intel graphics are also supported with the brand new LACT 0.7...

A Beginner’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence for Linux Users

Tecmint - Wed, 01/15/2025 - 14:20
The post A Beginner’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence for Linux Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a term that’s been buzzing around for a while now, from self-driving cars to voice assistants

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