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Fedora Miracle Spin Approved To Ship As Part Of Fedora Linux 41

Phoronix - Mon, 05/20/2024 - 22:33
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved of the newest Fedora desktop ISO spin: Fedora Miracle...

Farewell Intel Xeon Phi: Support Removed In The GCC 15 Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 05/20/2024 - 21:40
Last week I wrote about Intel aiming to remove Xeon Phi support in GCC 15 with the products being end-of-life and deprecated in GCC 14. While some openly wondered whether the open-source community would allow it given the Xeon Phi accelerators were available to buy just a few years ago and at some very low prices going back years so some potentially finding use still out of them especially during this AI boom (and still readily available to buy used for around ~$50 USD), today the Intel Xeon Phi support was indeed removed...

AMDGPU ISP Firmware Upstreamed In linux-firmware.git

Phoronix - Mon, 05/20/2024 - 20:36
It was just earlier this month that AMD Linux kernel graphics driver patches appeared for introducing a new ISP hardware block for Image Signal Processing with new AMD APUs. Already the AMDGPU ISP firmware has appeared in linux-firmware.git indicating that this "ISP" block may be coming in hardware quite soon if not already quietly found within some products...

OCFS2 File-System Seeing Improved Write Performance On Linux 6.10

Phoronix - Mon, 05/20/2024 - 18:42
It's not often having anything to write about on the Oracle Cluster File-System v2 (OCFS2), but with Linux 6.10 it's seeing a rather significant performance optimization...

Linux 6.10 Will Print The Number Of Populated Memory Slots At Boot Time

Phoronix - Mon, 05/20/2024 - 18:24
As a small information heads up, the Linux 6.10 kernel will print the number of populated memory slots at boot time to the kernel log as a little helper...

Intel CR 24.17.29377.6 Offers Latest OpenCL & oneAPI Level Zero Support

Phoronix - Mon, 05/20/2024 - 18:04
Intel Compute Runtime 24.17.29377.6 is now available as the latest routine update to this open-source GPU compute stack used by the company's integrated and discrete graphics products for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero compute capabilities...

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