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While Intel's Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" SoCs with on-package memory has been reported to be a one-off design, besides the integrated memory it was also notable for being a hybrid core design while lacking Hyper Threading (HT / SMT) support. The notion of hybrid P/E core CPUs without SMT looks like it will continue with Intel software engineers still exploring Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) around such layouts...

Intel Continues Exploring Energy Aware Scheduling For Hybrid CPUs Without SMT  Phoronix

Released at the end of 2023 was TurnkeyML as an open-source collaboration between ONNX and AMD developers. TurnkeyML has evolved into focusing on making it easy to use the most important tools within the ONNX ecosystem and their Lemonade SDK to deploy large language models on various devices/accelerators Out today is TurnkeyML 6.2 with a focus on delivering better AMD Ryzen AI NPU support...

GNOME 47.6 Fixes Black Screen Issue on Multi-Monitor Setups with NVIDIA Driver  9to5Linux

While Fedora 42 was just released yesterday, already Red Hat developers and the Fedora development community have been busy thinking about Fedora 43 that will debut this autumn. Among the early change proposals this week is one for better supporting Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) with this next Fedora Linux release...

Fedora 43 Looking To Make It Easier To Deploy Intel TDX Confidential VMs  Phoronix

Lilbits: Cybersecurity funding, single-board PCs for AI, saving text from screenshots, and Linux on MacBooks  Liliputing

Now that Mesa 25.1 is branched for this quarter's Mesa 3D feature release, Mesa 25.2 has entered development on the main Git branch. One of the first merged changes for Mesa 25.2 is removing the old OpenCL Gallium3D "Clover" driver...

Linux laptop lagging? 5 simple ways to speed it up fast  ZDNET

NVIDIA 575 Linux Graphics Driver Enters Public Beta with NVIDIA Smooth Motion  9to5Linux

Amazon CloudWatch agent adds support for SELinux  Amazon Web Services

Intel open-source software engineers last week posted a set of patches for a new driver: iXD. The three letter acronym party continues and this time even more difficult to decipher than some of their other obscure driver names...

Intel's Newest Linux Driver Being Worked On For The Kernel: iXD  Phoronix

Fedora 42's big upgrade delivers new spins for COSMIC and KDE Plasma - and much more  ZDNET

deepin Linux 23.1 released with DeepSeek AI support — Donald Trump’s Chinese tariffs can’t stop open source  BetaNews

Fedora Linux 42 is out now with KDE Plasma Desktop promoted and x86 programs on ARM  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA 575.51.02 Beta driver brings NVIDIA Smooth Motion support to Linux, GeForce RTX 5060 series announced  GamingOnLinux

Port .NET Framework workloads to Linux with Amazon Q Developer, Part 3: Web APIs  Amazon Web Services

OCCT is now available on Linux: CPU, GPU and memory testing just like on Windows  VideoCardz.com

Eric Engestrom is once again stepping up to manage the next quarterly Mesa driver feature release and thus today we have the on-time branching of Mesa 25.1 from Mesa Git and already the release of Mesa 25.1-rc1. This release brings many improvements to the collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers that should be ready for their stable debut in May...