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Fedora 41 Beta Released With Many Leading-Edge Linux Enhancements

Phoronix - Tue, 09/17/2024 - 20:00
The beta of Fedora 41 is out today ahead of the planned stable release in October for this leading-edge Linux distribution with many new features...

Mir 2.18 Released With Wayland Server-Side Decorations

Phoronix - Tue, 09/17/2024 - 19:44
Canonical today shipped Mir 2.18 as the latest version of this set of open-source libraries for assembly Wayland-based shells. Mir 2.18 brings a number of new features including Wayland server-side decorations...

Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.8 Released Ahead Of Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 09/17/2024 - 19:35
Ahead of the Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" laptops beginning to ship starting next week, the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.8 is now available as the latest software update for embracing the Intel NPU for AI offloading...

Device Memory TCP Included With The Networking Changes For Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Tue, 09/17/2024 - 16:00
Jakub Kicinski submitted the networking subsystem updates over the weekend for the Linux 6.12 merge window. Most notable this cycle is Device Memory TCP for zero-copy receive of TCP payloads to DMA-BUF regions...

FreeBSD 13.4 Released With Many Software Updates & Driver Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 09/17/2024 - 12:00
The FreeBSD camp today released FreeBSD 13.4 as the newest point release to the FreeBSD 13 stable series for those that haven't yet migrated to the FreeBSD 14 series...

ARM / RISC-V / LoongArch KVM Updates Submitted For Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Tue, 09/17/2024 - 12:00
Red Hat engineer Paolo Bonzini submitted the initial batch of KVM changes targeting the Linux 6.12 kernel. This is just the first batch and notably lacking all of the KVM x86 Intel/AMD changes for the cycle. But in the non-x86 space there is a fair amount of activity for this next kernel version for those making use of KVM as part of the open-source virtualization stack...

AMD Publishes RDNA 3.5 ISA Documentation

Phoronix - Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
AMD today made public their RDNA 3.5 instruction set architecture (ISA) programming guide for these updated RDNA3 graphics found within new Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" APUs thus far...

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