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Fedora Asahi Aims To Provide The Fedora Workstation Experience For Apple Silicon Systems

Phoronix - Tue, 02/07/2023 - 23:36
For those wanting to run Linux bare metal on modern Apple Silicon M1/M2 systems, the easiest way to do so is by using the Asahi Linux distribution with its downstream kernel carrying the latest Apple driver enablement patches for the ARM hardware, the specialized installer for safely setting up the Linux distribution on the Apple, and modern package base provided by Arch Linux. For fans of Fedora Workstation, the Fedora Asahi remix has been working to provide a great Fedora Workstation experience for modern Macs...

GCC 13 Now Enables 512-bit Vector For AMD Zen 4 Tuning

Phoronix - Tue, 02/07/2023 - 21:00
GNU Compiler Collection compiler expert Jan Hubicka at SUSE continues working on last-minute tweaks to the GCC 13 for benefiting AMD's latest Zen 4 processors...

Mesa 23.1 RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video Decoding For H.264/H.265

Phoronix - Tue, 02/07/2023 - 19:54
The work led by Red Hat's David Airlie on supporting Vulkan Video with the Mesa RADV driver has seen the work mainlined today for Mesa 23.1!..

Fedora 38 "Simplified Installer" Aiming To Ease IoT Deployments

Phoronix - Tue, 02/07/2023 - 19:41
In addition to the in-development Fedora / Red Hat Anaconda web UI based installer that has been in the works, Fedora IoT is rolling out a new installer of its own to ease deployments around edge computing and Internet of Things devices...

Intel Developing Rust-Based TD-Shim Firmware For Confidential Containers

Phoronix - Tue, 02/07/2023 - 16:00
Among the many interesting talks this past weekend at the 2023 edition of FOSDEM was Intel engineer Jiewen Yao presenting TD-Shim as the company's work on a lightweight virtual firmware for containers that complies with their approach to confidential computing...

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