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Intel engineers have just released OpenVINO 2024.1, the newest feature release for this excellent open-source AI toolkit that continues expanding its features and capabilities particularly around Generative AI "GenAI" and Large Language Models (LLMs)...

Canonical releases Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat'  BetaNews

Ubuntu 24.04 Official Flavors Are Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making significant, much-needed investments into various open-source upstream projects from the GNOME desktop to Rust-written Coreutils and more. Today the Sovereign Tech Fund outlined their latest funding for advancing the open-source software ecosystem...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Downloads Now Available  Phoronix

The release ISOs for Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" are now available! Ubuntu 24.04 is an exciting Long Term Support (LTS) update with this new Linux distribution release being powered by the Linux 6.8 kernel, making use of Netplan for networking on the desktop, features the modernized desktop OS installer, various performance optimizations, and a ton of new features...

Following yesterday's Mesa 24.1 feature branching, Mesa 24.2-devel is now open for the Mesa Git mainline code and some early feature work has begun for that Q3 release series...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ‘Noble Numbat’ Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

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Not to be confused with Fedora's "Beefy Miracle" from a decade ago during their entertaining codename days, but a Fedora Miracle spin has been proposed for the now-open Fedora 41 development cycle...

Llamafile has been quite an interesting project out of Mozilla's Ocho group in the era of AI. Llamafile makes it easy to run and distribute large language models (LLMs) that are self-contained within a single file. Llamafile builds off Llama.cpp and makes it easy to ship an entire LLM as a single file with both CPU and GPU execution support. Llamafile 0.8 is out now to join in on the LLaMA3 fun as well as delivering other model support and enhancing the CPU performance...

How Linux's insanely customizable desktop works | PCWorld  PCWorld

In addition to many RadeonSI driver optimizations that were merged just prior to yesterday's code branching and Mesa 24.1-rc1 release, a number of Etnaviv driver improvements were also merged for benefiting that recent Vivante NPU IP open-source driver work...

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All along, we have been looking at simple expressions when checking whether a condition has been met or not. What if you want to use

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Best Linux distro of 2024  TechRadar

Windows 11 Start Menu ads - now coming to a PC near you  Notebookcheck.net

[Solved] update-grub command not found Error in Linux  It's FOSS

Linux Kernel Updates Indicate Expansion of Many AMD Zen 5 CPU Models  guru3d.com

The Steam Deck and Linux gaming have a problem: ProtonDB sucks - let me explain  Notebookcheck.net

Shortly following today's Mesa 24.1 code branching, the first release candidate has been announced by ongoing Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom...