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Cloud Hypervisor 39 Adds NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P Support

Phoronix - Sun, 04/28/2024 - 18:52
Cloud Hypervisor 39 was released on Saturday for this cloud-focused, Rust-based VMM started by Intel and now a multi-vendor Linux Foundation project...

Zrythm 1.0 RC1 Available For Testing As Great Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation

Phoronix - Sun, 04/28/2024 - 18:45
Since going beta in 2020, the Zrythm open-source digital audio workstation software has been inching its way toward a v1.0 release. On Saturday marked the release of v1.0.0-rc.1 as a release candidate for the upcoming v1.0 release of this GTK-based digital audio workstation (DAW) software...

LLVM Clang 19 Adds Arm Neoverse-N3 / Neoverse-V3 / Neoverse-V3AE Support

Phoronix - Sun, 04/28/2024 - 18:07
Merged on Friday to the development codebase for the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler is support for the Arm Neoverse N3, V3, and V3AE SoCs...

Rust-Based Coreutils 0.0.26 Increases Compatibility With GNU Coreutils

Phoronix - Sun, 04/28/2024 - 00:09
The uutils' Rust-based Coreutils implementation is out with another update that further increases the drop-in replacement compatibility with GNU Coreutils...

Llamafile 0.8.1 GPU LLM Offloading Works Now With More AMD GPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 20:48
It was just a few days ago that Llamafile 0.8 released with LLaMA 3 and Grok support along with faster F16 performance. Now this project out of Mozilla for self-contained, easily re-distributable large language model (LLM) deployments is out with a new release...

Rework For Intel CPU Model Handling To Land With Linux 6.10

Phoronix - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 18:34
Intel engineers have been reworking Intel CPU model handling for Linux after using "Family 6" since the mid-90's with the P6 micro-architecture and continuing to rev the model ID only with new micro-architectural generations. It's an end of the era for Family 6 coming up and thus there's a lot of Linux patches being worked on to address assumptions within the kernel code that was only checking for an Intel CPU's model ID and not for any family ID differences...

GTK 4.15 Released With Vulkan Renderer By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 18:16
GTK 4.15.0 is now available as part of the new unstable series for this widely used open-source toolkit. Most notable with GTK 4.15.0 is the Vulkan renderer being used by default on supported systems...

KDE Fixes Adaptive-Sync Issues & Less Glitches During GPU Resets

Phoronix - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 18:01
KDE developer Nate Graham is back from the latest KDE sprint in Germany and out with his new weekly status report to highlight all of the interesting KDE changes that landed this week...

Proton 9.0 RC2 Makes More Windows Games Playable On Linux, Other Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 04:42
Valve and CodeWeavers today released the Proton 9.0 Release Candidate 2 build based off Wine 9.0 for powering Steam Play to enjoy an excellent assortment of modern (and legacy) Windows games on Linux...

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