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WayVNC 0.9 Released For Wayland VNC Server With New Features

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 21:29
WayVNC 0.9 is out today as the newest feature release for this VNC server catering to wlroots-based Wayland compositors. WayVNC makes it easy to get a VNC server up and running on Sway and other wlroots-based compositors while with today's update is much more capable...

MiTAC Releases AMD openSIL Based Open-Source Firmware For Their Capri2 EPYC Server

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 19:39
Ahead of SC24, MiTAC Computing has published their open-source firmware for their Open Compute Project (OCP) designed Capri2 AMD EPYC server. This open-source firmware stack makes use of AMD's in-development openSIL for open-source CPU silicon initialization...

Intel SNC6 Sub-NUMA Clustering Support With Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 19:22
A few weeks back I wrote about Intel engineers preparing SNC6 support with Linux for six nodes per L3 cache. That was the first time hearing of SNC6 with SNC 1/2/3/4 sub-NUMA clustering modes being more common. That support is now ready for merging with the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle...

Arch Linux Working To Affirm Its Package Sources Under A BSD Zero Clause License

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 19:13
Arch Linux package sources with its PKGBUILD files and similar have lacked carrying a clear license. Arch Linux developers have been working to come together to allow all Arch Linux package sources to be licensed under a BSD zero-clause "BSD0" license...

GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu Continues Dealing With More Blobs In The Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 19:04
The GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu kernel is now available as the downstream of the newly-christened Linux 6.12 kernel that aims to remove code depending upon non-free microcode/firmware or relying on other elements of code deemed non-free software even with much of today's hardware requiring proprietary firmware for operation...

AMD Begins Adding "GFX950" GPU Support To LLVM For Next CDNA Accelerator

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 06:15
As of today the first handful of commits have landed in LLVM Git ahead of next year's LLVM 20.0 for beginning to enable the AMDGPU compiler back-end for "GFX950", the next iteration of the CDNA family for Instinct accelerators...

Linux 6.13 Quadrupling Workqueue Concurrency Limit

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 05:32
The Linux kernel Workqueue (WQ) is used for handling asynchronous process execution. For the past many years there has been an upper limit on the number of workqueue execution contexts per CPU at 512, but with Linux 6.13 that is being quadrupled to a limit of 2048...

Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 04:34
Over the past year we have seen Canonical engineers focus more on optimizing the performance potential of Ubuntu Linux. With Ubuntu 25.04 they are now using the -O3 compiler optimization level by default and there has been other efforts like better performance tooling on Ubuntu and frame pointers by default. Another area they have been exploring is making use of Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) for faster performance in certain scenarios...

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