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systemd 254-rc2 Brings A Few More Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 07/15/2023 - 18:05
Earlier this month brought the release of systemd 254-rc1 with a new soft-reboot mechanism, officially deprecating System V scripts, a new systemd-battery-check process that runs at boot to check any system battery level status, and various other changes. On Friday systemd 254-rc2 was released with a few more changes...

uutils 0.0.20 Improves GNU Coreutils Compatibility For This Rust-Written Replacement

Phoronix - Sat, 07/15/2023 - 04:47
The uutils project continues advancing as a modern, drop-in replacement to the GNU Coreutils utilities that is written in the Rust programming language...

Imagination Tech Rolls Out Latest PowerVR Rogue DRM Kernel Driver Patches

Phoronix - Sat, 07/15/2023 - 01:40
Imagination Technologies today published their fourth iteration of their in-development PowerVR DRM kernel graphics driver targeting their Rogue architecture and future graphics IP. This open-source kernel driver ultimately will go along with their PowerVR Vulkan driver they continue developing within the Mesa code-base...

Linux 6.6 Will Make It Easy To Disable IO_uring System-Wide

Phoronix - Fri, 07/14/2023 - 23:23
While IO_uring has been one of the most interesting kernel innovations of recent years and can allow for great speed-ups to async I/O, there have been some security concerns and with the Linux 6.6 kernel it will be easier for Linux administrators to disable it system-wide if so desired...

AMD Working To Allow Linux To Handle Up To 128 DRM Devices Per System

Phoronix - Fri, 07/14/2023 - 22:21
AMD Linux engineers are working on extending the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem used by their GPUs/accelerators to allow up to 128 DRM devices per system...

COSMIC Desktop Implements Fractional Scaling, Wallpaper Settings

Phoronix - Fri, 07/14/2023 - 21:54
System76 developers working on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop have recently been improving a number of areas of this open-source desktop...

GTK Support For macOS Potentially Moving Back To "Best Effort" Approach

Phoronix - Fri, 07/14/2023 - 20:54
The GTK toolkit and GLib support for Apple's macOS may be taking a back-seat to other platforms moving forward and would fall into a "best effort" category...

New Intel Lunar Lake / Arrow Lake / Arrow Lake S Patches For GCC

Phoronix - Fri, 07/14/2023 - 18:38
Yesterday Intel engineers sent out early compiler patches for Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake with adding the new instructions of AVX-VNNI-INT16, SM3, SHA512, and SM4. Today that new instruction support was complemented by a new patch out of Intel for actually adding the new Lunar Lake, Arrow Lake, and Arrow Lake S targets to GCC...

DIMM Temperature Driver & PECI-CPUTemp Updated For Sapphire Rapids

Phoronix - Fri, 07/14/2023 - 18:24
Consulting firm 9elements sent out a set of patches this week to the peci-cputemp and dimmtemp drivers for supporting Intel Sapphire Rapids platforms, including for the up to eight socket configuration capable this generation...

Rusticl Capable Of Running Tinygrad For LLaMA Model

Phoronix - Fri, 07/14/2023 - 18:05
Mesa's Rusticl OpenGL implementation written in Rust it turns out can already run the Tinygrad open-source software with its OpenCL back-end for running the LLaMA model...

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