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Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS Delayed To End Of Month

Phoronix - Tue, 08/13/2024 - 03:57
Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS was scheduled to ship this week but has now been delayed to the end of August in order to address some high profile upgrade bugs...

Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.46 Released For High Performance JVM

Phoronix - Tue, 08/13/2024 - 03:05
A new version of Eclipse OpenJ9 is now available for this high performance Java Virtual Machine (JVM)..

Linux Foundation Looks To Become More Involved With AI Models, Welcomes OMI

Phoronix - Mon, 08/12/2024 - 22:24
With all the craze around "AI" and hoping to foster more open-source AI models, the Linux Foundation has welcomed the Open Model Initiative (OMI) into its umbrella of open-source initiatives to help foster high quality, openly-licensed AI models...

AMD Bus Lock Detect Positioned Ahead Of Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Mon, 08/12/2024 - 21:51
Going back four years ago Intel engineers worked out bus lock detection for the Linux kernel to benefit their processors able to detect bus locks and then notify the kernel, given the negative performance implications associated with bus locks. That Intel support was merged in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 while now AMD has their equivalent ready for mainlining in the Linux kernel...

GNOME Developers New Code Takes On Cursor Stutters

Phoronix - Mon, 08/12/2024 - 20:30
It's been one year since Canonical desktop engineer Daniel van Vugt, who is known for his upstream GNOME contributions, touched his patch-set implementing dynamic deadline evasion support. But this week brought the long-awaited third iteration of the patches that aim to eliminate cursor stutters from the Mutter compositor's KMS thread...

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