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Canonical's Netplan 1.1 Improves Compatibility With Proton VPN & Microsoft's Azure Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 08/15/2024 - 12:00
For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Canonical released Netplan 1.0 as their declarative network configuration software spanning now from servers to desktops. In time for Ubuntu 24.10 due out in two months, Netplan 1.1 has been released as the next iteration of this Linux networking configuration software from Canonical...

Mesa 24.2 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, New Shader Cache

Phoronix - Thu, 08/15/2024 - 02:14
Mesa 24.2 is out today as stable for this quarterly feature release to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used commonly on Linux systems and other platforms...

Gentoo Linux Ending Itanium IA-64 Support

Phoronix - Thu, 08/15/2024 - 00:54
Gentoo Linux was one of the last few Linux distributions continuing to maintain Itanium (IA-64) architecture builds but that is now being phased out for those discontinued Intel processors...

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X & Ryzen 9 9900X Deliver Excellent Linux Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 08/14/2024 - 21:00
Last Wednesday was the review embargo for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Zen 5 desktop processors that proved to be very exciting for Linux workloads from developers to creators to AVX-512 embracing AI and HPC workloads. Today the review embargo lifts on the Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X and as expected given the prior 6-core/8-core tests: these new chips are wild! The Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X are fabulous processors for those engaging in heavy real-world Linux workloads with excellent performance uplift and stunning power efficiency.

SiFive Announces P870-D For Up To 256 RISC-V Cores

Phoronix - Wed, 08/14/2024 - 21:00
SiFive today lifted the lid on the P870-D, its new RISC-V processor dor data center and AI workloads. The P870-D is designed to scale up to 256 cores while supporting modern features like CXL and other AI/HPC minded features...

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