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Intel CR 24.17.29377.6 Offers Latest OpenCL & oneAPI Level Zero Support

Phoronix - Mon, 05/20/2024 - 18:04
Intel Compute Runtime 24.17.29377.6 is now available as the latest routine update to this open-source GPU compute stack used by the company's integrated and discrete graphics products for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero compute capabilities...

Fwupd 1.9.20 Released With Updated FPC Fingerprint Reader Support

Phoronix - Mon, 05/20/2024 - 17:51
While Fwupd developers are working toward the Fwupd 2.0 release, out this morning is Fwupd 1.9.20 as the newest point release for this open-source solution for firmware updating on Linux that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

Get Started with Ubuntu 24.04: Beginner-Friendly Installation & Tweaks

Tecmint - Mon, 05/20/2024 - 16:00
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, codename Noble Numbat, was released on April 25, 2024, and is now available for download from the official Ubuntu website and its

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5 Reasons Why I Hate GNU/Linux – Do You Hate (Love) Linux?

Tecmint - Mon, 05/20/2024 - 13:00
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There are aspects of Linux that I find frustrating, even though I don’t talk about them often. Here are five points that I encounter almost

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Bcachefs Brings Safety Improvements To Linux 6.10, Preps For Online Fsck

Phoronix - Mon, 05/20/2024 - 02:15
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet today sent out his feature pull request of all the new file-system code that is ready in time for the Linux 6.10 merge window...

Cloudflare Praises Golang PGO For Significant CPU Savings

Phoronix - Sun, 05/19/2024 - 18:47
Released over a year ago was Golang 1.20 with support for Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) and has since been improved with Go 1.21 for 2~7% faster Go binaries thanks to this optimization approach also found with other compilers. The engineers at Cloudflare have put out a blog post this week praising Go's PGO support and the CPU savings they are seeing as a result...

EXT4 In Linux 6.10 Adds FS_IOC_GETFSSYSFSPATH Support

Phoronix - Sun, 05/19/2024 - 18:36
While EROFS is seeing Zstd support and Bcachefs is seeing performance optimizations with the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel, over on the mature EXT4 file-system side the changes are mostly small. There are some minor changes, more folio conversion work, and also adding support for the FS_IOC_GETFSSYSFSPATH ioctl that has been seeing some standardization and adoption by the common Linux file-systems...

Linux Patch Posted For The Bigscreen Beyond VR Headset

Phoronix - Sun, 05/19/2024 - 18:14
A Linux patch has been posted for delivering a quirk so that the Bigscreen Beyond VR Headset can properly behave under Linux and in turn also jives with the likes of SteamVR...

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