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Arch Linux Installer "Archinstall" 2.8.1 Adds Experimental LVM Support

Phoronix - Wed, 06/26/2024 - 23:47
Archinstall 2.8.1 is now available for the newest version of this easy-to-use, command-line driven installer for the Arch Linux operating system...

COSMIC Alpha Desktop Release Still Planned For Late July

Phoronix - Wed, 06/26/2024 - 23:16
System76 developers are still on track for releasing the alpha version of their Rust-written COSMIC desktop in late July...

Canonical Offers Up 12 Year "Everything LTS" For Docker Images

Phoronix - Wed, 06/26/2024 - 22:14
Ubuntu maker Canonical announced "Everything LTS" as a new initiative where for Ubuntu Pro customers they will offer up a twelve year LTS period for any open-source Docker image...

Rust-Written OpenCL Driver Now Works On Raspberry Pi GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 06/26/2024 - 20:37
Mesa's Rusticl driver as a Rust-based OpenCL driver for GPUs backed by Gallium3D support now works with the Broadcom V3D driver. This V3D support is notable as it's most commonly associated with the Raspberry Pi single board computers...

AMDVLK 2024.Q2.3 Release Brings Few Changes

Phoronix - Wed, 06/26/2024 - 20:12
AMD has published AMDVLK 2024.Q2.3 as the newest version of their open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems...

Intel Vulkan Driver Enables Cooperative Matrix Support For Xe2 GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 06/26/2024 - 18:25
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver developers continue to be quite busy in preparing for the Xe2 next-generation graphics to be found with forthcoming Lunar Lake processors and the Battlemage discrete graphics cards...

GCC 15 Adds NVIDIA Grace CPU Support With "-mcpu=grace" Option

Phoronix - Wed, 06/26/2024 - 18:12
NVIDIA has upstreamed a patch to the GCC 15 compiler for adding the "-mcpu=grace" option to make it easier to target NVIDIA Grace AArch64 CPU cores from this open-source compiler...

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Now Available For Container & VM Needs

Phoronix - Wed, 06/26/2024 - 18:01
OpenSUSE has released Leap Micro 6.0 as stable for this community rebranded build of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0. Leap Micro continues to be focused on delivering a very reliable and robust experience for containers and virtual machines...

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