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3mdeb Achieves Good Progress Porting Coreboot+OpenSIL To AMD Turin Motherboard

Phoronix - Wed, 11/05/2025 - 19:04
Over the past few months the open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb has been porting Coreboot and AMD's new openSIL silicon initialization library to the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1. The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 is a broadly available motherboard that supports the latest-generation AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" server processors. 3mdeb has been fairly successful in their quest and an early demonstrator for openSIL...

systemd-appd Is A New Component Being Planned By Flatpak Developers

Phoronix - Wed, 11/05/2025 - 18:50
Given this week's release of Flatpak 1.17 for app sandboxing, open-source developer Sebastian Wick published a blog post on Tuesday around the latest Flatpak developments and a look ahead at some of the feature development planned. Arguably most significant of that is the plans for systemd-appd...

How to Use dpkg, apt, aptitude, synaptic, and tasksel in Debian

Tecmint - Wed, 11/05/2025 - 13:30
The post How to Use dpkg, apt, aptitude, synaptic, and tasksel in Debian first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Debian offers several tools for managing software packages, each serving a specific purpose in the package management ecosystem, and understanding

The post How to Use dpkg, apt, aptitude, synaptic, and tasksel in Debian first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

AMD Contributes BFloat16 Support To LLVM's SPIR-V Target

Phoronix - Wed, 11/05/2025 - 09:32
AMD software engineers continue making interesting contributions to the LLVM compiler stack around SPIR-V as the IR used by Vulkan and other Khronos APIs...

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