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Miracle-WM 0.2 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Compositor

Phoronix - Sat, 04/20/2024 - 00:02
Announced back in February was Miracle-WM as a Wayland compositor built atop Mir and developed by Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek. Today he announced version 0.2 as the latest feature update to this Wayland compositor with tiling window management...

Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death"

Phoronix - Fri, 04/19/2024 - 22:09
While systemd 255 last year introduced a "blue screen of death" inspired solution with systemd-bsod for presenting logged error messages full-screen, it's not appropriate for all errors. Systemd-bsod can work out for presenting full-screen messages in case of boot failures and other problems where user-space is alive. But the user-space code does little good in case of a kernel panic and similar issues bringing the system to a halt. Set to be introduced now with Linux 6.10 is a parallel "blue screen of death" like error presenting experience with the introduction of the DRM panic handler...

Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 Brings Improved OpenCL/OpenGL Sharing

Phoronix - Fri, 04/19/2024 - 21:42
As the first new release to Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack in about one month for this OpenCL and Level Zero compute support, Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 was released this morning with much improved OpenCL/OpenGL sharing and interoperability on Linux, out-of-the-box support for the Xe kernel graphics driver, new optimizations, and many other changes...

Tow-Boot 2023.07 U-Boot Distribution Released With New Board Support

Phoronix - Fri, 04/19/2024 - 20:45
It's been nearly one year since the last Tow-Boot release while debuting on Thursday was Tow-Boot 2023.07-007 for this open-source project derived from the U-Boot bootloader...

Rockchip NPU Open-Source Driver Taking Shape, Will Aim For Upstream Accel Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 04/19/2024 - 18:36
It was just one month ago that open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso was beginning work on reverse-engineering and writing a Rockchip NPU driver following his work on the Vivante NPU IP open-source driver support. He quickly began seeing the driver working and with very viable performance and now today he's shared another update on this Rockchip open-source NPU driver effort...

Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 2024Q1 Brings VP9 Fix & AV1 Refinements

Phoronix - Fri, 04/19/2024 - 18:23
Overnight Intel released their oneVPL GPU Runtime 2024Q1 release for this media stack component to their oneAPI software collection...

5 Must-Try AI Tools for Linux Users in 2024

Tecmint - Fri, 04/19/2024 - 13:46
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It goes without saying that artificial intelligence and AI-powered chatbots, such as ChatGPT, are revolutionizing all aspects of our lives. While AI-based technology is becoming

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Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week

Phoronix - Fri, 04/19/2024 - 02:39
After not being ready in time for this week's early release target date, it's now been determined today that Fedora 40 is ready for release next week...

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