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Immutable Version Of Arch-Based Manjaro Linux Available For Testing

Phoronix - Sat, 08/03/2024 - 22:01
For those intrigued by the likes of the likes of Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla OS, and NixOS for an immutable Linux distribution but desiring something based on Arch Linux, Manjaro Linux has an immutable variant now available for testing...

Limine 8.0 Bootloader Released With LoongArch Support

Phoronix - Sat, 08/03/2024 - 18:42
While not as common as GRUB or systemd-boot, a new version of Limine is now available for this open-source, modern-focused and portable multi-protocol bootloader...

GNOME Disks Adds New Standalone UI For Managing/Mounting Disk Images

Phoronix - Sat, 08/03/2024 - 18:25
In addition to the KDE development activity this week, GNOME developers have also been busy polishing their desktop ahead of their next GNOME release in September...

This Week In KDE: "Plasma Is Feeling Really Solid These Days!"

Phoronix - Sat, 08/03/2024 - 18:14
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekend update that recaps all of the interesting KDE development activities for the past week...

Canonical Evaluating -O3 Optimized Packages For Ubuntu Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 08/03/2024 - 05:02
With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS the engineers at Canonical began focusing more on the performance of Ubuntu and establishing a performance team at the company. This work is ongoing and for Ubuntu 24.10 they are exploring another exciting area: leveraging "-O3" compiler optimizations for Ubuntu packages. Available today is an experimental build of the Ubuntu desktop and server ISOs that are compiled for the -O3 optimization level...

AMD Releases ROCm 6.2 With New Components, Improves PyTorch & TensorFlow

Phoronix - Sat, 08/03/2024 - 02:52
As expected, AMD has released ROCm 6.2 as the newest version of their open-source GPU compute stack for Radeon graphics cards and Instinct accelerators. ROCm 6.2 is a big update with several new software components, improving the existing PyTorch and TensorFlow support, and a variety of other enhancements as AMD works to better compete with NVIDIA's CUDA...

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