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Nvidia's next Linux driver to be… just as open  The Register

Nvidia's next Linux driver to be… just as open  The Register

AMD RDNA4 experimental Linux GPU driver support is now enabled by default  VideoCardz.com

Nvidia to complete its open-source GPU kernel transition on Linux  OC3D

It looks like the AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" graphics driver support is in good shape: AMD is now enabling the driver support for the next-generation graphics "out of the box" with the latest pending patches...

AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" Linux Driver Support Matures To Being Enabled By Default  Phoronix

AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" Linux Driver Support Matures To Being Enabled By Default  Phoronix

NVIDIA 560 Linux Graphics Driver to Fully Adopt Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 560 Linux Graphics Driver to Fully Adopt Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules  9to5Linux

The Intel-initiated Sound Open Firmware project for open-source audio DSP firmware and related tooling is out with a new v2.10 release. SOF continues to be backed not only by Intel but also Google, AMD, Realtek, NXK, Mediatek, and other organizations...

Wolfi Linux Might Be the Next Cloud Security Savior  LinuxInsider

EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11  Phoronix

NVIDIA Transitions To Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules With Newest Driver Update At Linux  Wccftech

NVIDIA Transitions To Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules With Newest Driver Update At Linux  Wccftech

Toward the end of 2022 a GCC AArch64 compiler change was quietly made by Arm that allows "-march=native" to be handled on 64-bit ARM by treating it as the equivalent "-mcpu=native" option. The change happened to fly under my radar at that time and didn't draw much attention at large while now it's finally being officially documented in hopes of similar behavior being adopted by other compilers for AArch64...

With the maturity of the EXT4 file-system it's not too often seeing any huge feature additions for this commonly used Linux file-system but there's still the occasional wild performance optimization to uncover... With Linux 6.11 the EXT4 file-system can see upwards of a 20% performance boost in some scenarios...

EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11  Phoronix

How to Find Large Files on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

The ROCm 6.1 series is the latest stable version currently of AMD's open-source GPU compute stack with an increasing large focus on AI. AMD has confirmed to Red Hat that ROCm 6.2 will debut before the release of Fedora 41, so the developers are now hoping to be shipping ROCm 6.2 packages with this upcoming Fedora Linux release...

CNX Software - Embedded Systems News  CNX Software