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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

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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...

Benchmarking The AMD EPYC 9V64H: Azure HBv5's Custom AMD CPU With HBM3

Phoronix - Wed, 11/05/2025 - 03:00
Nearly one year ago Microsoft announced the HBv5 virtual machines powered by a custom-designed AMD 4th Gen EPYC processor with high bandwidth memory (HBM3). Finally today the Azure HBv5 series is reaching general availability for those with memory-intensive HPC applications and other workloads. Microsoft kindly provided Phoronix with HBv5 access in advance to begin testing these new VMs with the AMD EPYC 9V64H CPUs featuring HBM memory, so here are some of the first independent benchmarks of these exciting processors powering Azure's new HPC VM instances.

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