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Linux 6.10 Adds Support For Posted Interrupts On Bare Metal Hardware

Phoronix - Sat, 05/18/2024 - 00:10
Merged as part of the IRQ changes for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel is support for posted interrupts on bare metal hardware...

Ubuntu 24.10 To See More Polishing, NVIDIA Wayland By Default & New Welcome Wizard

Phoronix - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 22:00
Oliver Smith who is serving as the Interim Engineering Director for the Ubuntu Desktop team at Canonical has shared some roadmap plans around Ubuntu 24.10. With this being the first post-LTS release following last month's Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support, they are more free to innovate this cycle and they have a lot of great plans for enhancing the Linux desktop experience...

Intel's OpenVINO Now Available In openSUSE

Phoronix - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 21:48
OpenSUSE is the first major Linux distribution to package up and offer Intel's OpenVINO open-source AI toolkit within its package repository...

Linux 6.10 Improves Performance For Opening Unencrypted Files

Phoronix - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 20:37
FSCRYPT is the file-system encryption framework within the Linux kernel for supporting optional encryption on file-systems like EXT4, F2FS, Btrfs, and others. With Linux 6.10 an optimization is coming for enhancing the performance of opening files on file-systems supporting FSCRYPT-based encryption but when the files are unencrypted...

Linux 6.10 Wires Up More Compute Express Link "CXL" Functionality

Phoronix - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 18:49
The Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem development continues to be led by Intel engineers and with the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel there are yet more features in tow...

Intel Readies Xeon Phi Removal For GCC 15

Phoronix - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 18:32
For the GCC 14 compiler release is the deprecation of the Xeon Phi targets. With Intel Knights Landing and Knights Mill being end-of-life at Intel, they are working to do away with the GNU Compiler Collection support. A patch has been posted to drop the Xeon Phi ISAs with GCC 15...

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