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GNOME 49 Alpha Released With X11 Support Disabled By Default, Many New Features

Phoronix - Mon, 07/07/2025 - 20:52
The GNOME 49 Alpha "49.alpha" release was just announced as the first formal test release in the road to the GNOME 49 desktop release due out in September...

LLVM Clang Merges -mcpu=gb10 Support For NVIDIA GB10 Superchip

Phoronix - Mon, 07/07/2025 - 20:06
Merged today for the LLVM/Clang compiler is -mcpu=gb10 support for catering to NVIDIA's forthcoming Grace Blackwell GB10 Superchip...

LibreOffice Begins Landing Markdown File Import Support

Phoronix - Mon, 07/07/2025 - 18:52
While coming a few weeks too late for making it into the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite release, merged today to LibreOffice Git for next year's LibreOffice 26.2 is adding initial support for importing Markdown files into the LibreOffice Writer word processor...

AMDKFD Kernel Compute Driver Used By ROCm Can Work On LoongArch Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 07/07/2025 - 18:46
The AMDKFD "Kernel Fusion Driver" used as the Linux kernel GPU compute driver and necessary part of their ROCm compute stack it turns out can build and run on the Chinese-developed LoongArch systems rather easily...

Intel VSEC/PMT Discovery Driver Expected For Linux 6.17 To Enhance Telemetry

Phoronix - Mon, 07/07/2025 - 18:39
With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle Intel is further building out their Platform Monitoring Technology (PMT) capabilities with the introduction of a new discovery driver...

Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Integrated Graphics Firmware Upstreamed

Phoronix - Mon, 07/07/2025 - 18:09
As a good sign of the progress being made on the Xe3 integrated graphics Linux support and of the Core Ultra Panther Lake launch approaching, the necessary graphics firmware binaries have now been upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository...

TornadoVM 1.1.1 Released For Java Programming Of Heterogeneous Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 07/07/2025 - 17:52
TornadoVM version 1.1.1 is now available for this OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that supports Java offloading to GPUs, FPGAs, and other heterogeneous hardware. The past few years TornadoVM has been making a lot of progress to automatically run Java programs across GPUs and other devices supporting OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX, and Khronos SPIR-V/Vulkan...

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