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AMD Publishes GC 11.5.2 Firmware For Upcoming RDNA3.5 Hardware

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 02:36
AMD today committed their GC 11.5.2 firmware to the upstream linux-firmware.git for the necessary firmware binary blobs needed for hardware initialization by their open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver with this newer RDNA3.5 variant...

Fedora 42 Will Try Again To Use The New Anaconda Installer's Web UI

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 02:15
With Fedora 41 working its way to release toward the end of October, some early feature/change proposals for Fedora 42 are being filed for what will be the Fedora Linux release out next spring...

KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 01:42
Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 is out today for providing the set of Wayland protocol XML files for currently non-standard protocols that are relied upon by the Plasma desktop with KWin compositor...

AMD XDNA Linux Driver v3 Published For Ryzen AI Upstreaming

Phoronix - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 23:00
AMD engineers continue work toward upstreaming their XDNA kernel driver for Linux in enabling the Ryzen AI NPU on open-source. The "v3" patches were posted on Wednesday but given the timing it looks like it will be missing out still on merging for the upcoming Linux 6.12 LTS cycle...

EXT4 Extsize Hints Being Worked On As Step Toward Non-Torn/Atomic Writes

Phoronix - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 21:00
Ojaswin Mujoo with IBM has posted an initial set of "request for comments" patches implementing extsize hints for EXT4, similar to the hints being worked on for the XFS file-system. This is important work in ultimately striving toward handling non-torn / atomic writes within the EXT4 file-system...

Intel Demonstrates Up To 48% Improvement For AVX-512 Optimized PostgreSQL

Phoronix - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 19:43
With the upcoming PostgreSQL 17 database server release there is some initial AVX-512 optimizations that are looking quite nice according to Intel's findings...

Linux Mint Takes To Forking Some APT Components

Phoronix - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 19:30
The Linux Mint project has at times forked various open-source projects to evolve them on their own such as the Cinnamon desktop starting out as forks of several GNOME 3 components. While their software forks and focus has mostly been at the desktop-level, they are going a bit further down the stack now to develop forks of several APT components that power package management on Debian/Ubuntu systems...

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