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Intel is using its Vision 2024 conference in Arizona today to announce the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. With Gaudi 3 comes some rather bold AI claims from Intel: 50% on average better inference and 40% on average better power efficiency than the NVIDIA H100. All while costing "a fraction" of the NVIDIA H100. Gaudi 3 sounds quite promising and will be interesting to see how its adopted in the marketplace. In addition, Intel also is disclosing the new Xeon 6 branding for their upcoming server processors formerly codenamed Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids.

Run mainline Linux on $5 dollar hardware « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!  Adafruit Blog

Embedded World: fast 64bit quad core RISC-V development board for Linux  Electronics Weekly

Explicit GPU Synchronization for Xwayland Is Now Finally Merged into XOrg Server  9to5Linux

Similar to Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure spinning their own Arm-based processors for their data centers, Google Cloud today announced the Google Axion Processors that will be available in the future...

OpenSSL 3.3 is out today as the latest major feature release for this widely-used SSL library...

GParted Live Is Now Patched Against the XZ Backdoor, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.7  9to5Linux

Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop  GamingOnLinux

In addition to working on NOVA as a Rust-based, GSP-focused NVIDIA open-source kernel graphics driver being developed as the eventual successor to the existing Nouveau DRM kernel driver, over in user-space Mesa developers have begun landing a portion of their Nouveau/NVK driver library code rewritten in Rust...

Explicit GPU Synchronization for Xwayland now merged  GamingOnLinux

EndeavourOS discontinues development of the ARM version of the Linux distribution  Notebookcheck.net

7 Reasons Why I Prefer Linux Over Windows for My Desktop  How-To Geek

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 41: The Worm Turns  GamingOnLinux

One year in the making, NVIDIA's code for explicit GPU synchronization in XWayland along with the X.Org Server DRI3 and Present extensions has now been merged! This is a big culmination of all the recent work around Wayland explicit synchronization and notably takes care of a number of NVIDIA driver problems on Wayland in the process...

Linux Mint is working on providing "ultra fast" repositories for users obtaining system updates and installing new packages on this popular desktop Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu...

Linux Mint Aims For More Reliable & Faster Repository Access  Phoronix

Complementing Canonical's existing Ubuntu Pro subscription service for expanded security maintenance, live kernel patching, compliance and hardening, real-time kernel flavor support, and other enterprise/support add-ons, Canonical today announced Ubuntu Pro For Devices...

Canonical Announces Ubuntu Pro For Devices  Phoronix

Open Invention Network, Microsoft, Linux Foundation Continue Open Source Partnership Against Patent Trolls  Open Source For You

An earlier fix to the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA kernel graphics driver with the new GPU System Processor (GSP) code path had fixed RTX 20 "Turing" GPU support but inadvertently broke the RTX 30 "Ampere" support. David Airlie sent out an urgent new fix today for addressing that regression in the NVIDIA GSP display code...