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With all the craze around "AI" and hoping to foster more open-source AI models, the Linux Foundation has welcomed the Open Model Initiative (OMI) into its umbrella of open-source initiatives to help foster high quality, openly-licensed AI models...

Linux Foundation Looks To Become More Involved With AI Models, Welcomes OMI  Phoronix

Going back four years ago Intel engineers worked out bus lock detection for the Linux kernel to benefit their processors able to detect bus locks and then notify the kernel, given the negative performance implications associated with bus locks. That Intel support was merged in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 while now AMD has their equivalent ready for mainlining in the Linux kernel...

AMD Bus Lock Detect Positioned Ahead Of Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Welcomes the Open Model Initiative to Promote Openly Licensed AI Models  Design and Reuse

The Linux Foundation’s latest initiative aims to promote ‘irrevocable’ open-source AI models  SiliconANGLE News

System76's new COSMIC Linux desktop is out of this world  ZDNet

It's been one year since Canonical desktop engineer Daniel van Vugt, who is known for his upstream GNOME contributions, touched his patch-set implementing dynamic deadline evasion support. But this week brought the long-awaited third iteration of the patches that aim to eliminate cursor stutters from the Mutter compositor's KMS thread...

PRODUCT OF THE WEEK: Star Lab’s Titanium for KVM secures KVM hypervisors  Military Embedded Systems

Microsoft has already rolled back the kernel in WSL2 while issues are debugged  Windows Central

ChimeraOS 46-2 brings full ASUS ROG Ally X support  GamingOnLinux

As a follow up to the article from a few weeks ago of Intel publishing the AVX10.2 specifications and posting GCC compiler patches for that next iteration of AVX10, the initial support was merged today into the GNU Compiler Collection...

The past few months have seen patches for updating the XZ (de)compression code within the Linux kernel that's been a lengthy process in part due to the XZ backdoor situation earlier this year and the reputable XZ developers in turn being busy cleaning up that mess. In any event it appears that the updated XZ code for the Linux kernel is now on track for mainlining come Linux 6.12...

Wow! Ubuntu Will Include The Latest Linux Kernel Version in Future Releases  It's FOSS News

Colors within the GTK toolkit have been represented to date using sRGB but developers have been working on supporting other color spaces like Display-P3 and BT.2100-PQ as they work to better support High Dynamic Range (HDR) displays on the Linux desktop...

GTK Making Progress On HDR & Supporting More Color Spaces  Phoronix

Mastering AWK: The Ultimate Guide to Text Processing in Linux | by The Great Saga | Aug, 2024  Medium

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 11th, 2024  9to5Linux

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