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Debian 13 Is Quickly Approaching - Desktop Artwork Voting Now Underway

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 21:37
The Debian 13 "Trixie" release is slated for 2025 and with the artwork voting now underway for the default desktop theme is a reminder that the release is quickly approaching...

WayVNC 0.9 Released For Wayland VNC Server With New Features

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 21:29
WayVNC 0.9 is out today as the newest feature release for this VNC server catering to wlroots-based Wayland compositors. WayVNC makes it easy to get a VNC server up and running on Sway and other wlroots-based compositors while with today's update is much more capable...

MiTAC Releases AMD openSIL Based Open-Source Firmware For Their Capri2 EPYC Server

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 19:39
Ahead of SC24, MiTAC Computing has published their open-source firmware for their Open Compute Project (OCP) designed Capri2 AMD EPYC server. This open-source firmware stack makes use of AMD's in-development openSIL for open-source CPU silicon initialization...

Intel SNC6 Sub-NUMA Clustering Support With Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 19:22
A few weeks back I wrote about Intel engineers preparing SNC6 support with Linux for six nodes per L3 cache. That was the first time hearing of SNC6 with SNC 1/2/3/4 sub-NUMA clustering modes being more common. That support is now ready for merging with the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle...

Arch Linux Working To Affirm Its Package Sources Under A BSD Zero Clause License

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 19:13
Arch Linux package sources with its PKGBUILD files and similar have lacked carrying a clear license. Arch Linux developers have been working to come together to allow all Arch Linux package sources to be licensed under a BSD zero-clause "BSD0" license...

GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu Continues Dealing With More Blobs In The Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 19:04
The GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu kernel is now available as the downstream of the newly-christened Linux 6.12 kernel that aims to remove code depending upon non-free microcode/firmware or relying on other elements of code deemed non-free software even with much of today's hardware requiring proprietary firmware for operation...

AMD Begins Adding "GFX950" GPU Support To LLVM For Next CDNA Accelerator

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 06:15
As of today the first handful of commits have landed in LLVM Git ahead of next year's LLVM 20.0 for beginning to enable the AMDGPU compiler back-end for "GFX950", the next iteration of the CDNA family for Instinct accelerators...

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