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Sound Open Firmware 2.10 Brings Stable Support For Intel Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 20:22
The Intel-initiated Sound Open Firmware project for open-source audio DSP firmware and related tooling is out with a new v2.10 release. SOF continues to be backed not only by Intel but also Google, AMD, Realtek, NXK, Mediatek, and other organizations...

GCC On AArch64 Handles Rewriting "-march=native" To "-mcpu=native"

Phoronix - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 18:56
Toward the end of 2022 a GCC AArch64 compiler change was quietly made by Arm that allows "-march=native" to be handled on 64-bit ARM by treating it as the equivalent "-mcpu=native" option. The change happened to fly under my radar at that time and didn't draw much attention at large while now it's finally being officially documented in hopes of similar behavior being adopted by other compilers for AArch64...

EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 18:36
With the maturity of the EXT4 file-system it's not too often seeing any huge feature additions for this commonly used Linux file-system but there's still the occasional wild performance optimization to uncover... With Linux 6.11 the EXT4 file-system can see upwards of a 20% performance boost in some scenarios...

Fedora 41 Looks To Ship Upcoming AMD ROCm 6.2 For Latest AI Capabilities

Phoronix - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 18:22
The ROCm 6.1 series is the latest stable version currently of AMD's open-source GPU compute stack with an increasing large focus on AI. AMD has confirmed to Red Hat that ROCm 6.2 will debut before the release of Fedora 41, so the developers are now hoping to be shipping ROCm 6.2 packages with this upcoming Fedora Linux release...

XFS Real-Time Enables FITRIM Support With Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 18:12
The XFS file-system updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel...

Is Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Virtualization the Best Alternative to VMware Amid Rising Costs?

URSI News - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 16:45

Could Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Virtualization Be the Best Alternative to VMware Amid Rising Costs?

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OBS Studio: Free Live Streaming & Screen Recording in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 15:02
The post OBS Studio: Free Live Streaming & Screen Recording in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

OBS Studio, short for Open Broadcaster Software Studio, is a free-to-use, open-source, cross-platform software application designed for video recording and

The post OBS Studio: Free Live Streaming & Screen Recording in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Microsoft's WSL 2.3.11 Brings "Hundreds Of New Kernel Modules" & New Features

Phoronix - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:00
Microsoft today published a new version of their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in pre-release form...

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