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While AMD ships pre-built ROCm/HIP stacks for the major enterprise Linux distributions, if you are using not one of them or just want to be adventurous and compile your own stack for building HIP programs for running on AMD GPUs, one of the AMD Linux developers has written a how-to guide...

Building An AMD HIP Stack From Upstream Open-Source Code  Phoronix

Merged for Mesa 24.1 is Teflon for Etnaviv NPU driver support in enabling reverse-engineered, open-source driver support for VeriSilicon NPU IP similar to the long-standing Etnaviv Gallium3D graphics support for Vivante graphics. Tomeu Vizoso who has been leading the work on the Etnaviv NPU support has managed to achieve another performance victory and taking the open-source driver performance closer to the proprietary driver...

Vulkanised 2024 took place this week in Sunnyvale, California as the 6th go at this Vulkan Developer Conference. The slides from this conference are now available for those wishing to learn more about this open industry standard cxompute/graphics API...

Steam Deck and Linux: Proton Experimental adds support for Tekken 8 and The Finals  Notebookcheck.net

Microsoft introduces open-source Sudo for Windows; works similar to Linux  Notebookcheck.net

Shim Bootloader Vulnerability Affects Linux Systems – Gridinsoft Blog  GridinSoft

Shim vulnerability exposes most Linux systems to attack  ZDNet

Discovering Linux: A Distro Exploration and Sharing Experience  Medium

AMD Linux Driver points to 'RDNA 4' coming soon, and the Radeon team moving on from RDNA 3  TweakTown

Linux-Like Sudo Command is Coming Soon to Windows 11  Beebom

The Linux Foundation and its partners are working on cryptography for the post-quantum world  ZDNet

The Linux Foundation and its partners are working on cryptography for the post-quantum world  ZDNet

Debian͏ vs ͏Ub͏untu: Which i͏s the͏ best Linux di͏s͏tro in͏ ͏2024?  Sportskeeda

It looks like next-generation RDNA4 graphics will feature a new iteration of the Video Core Next (VCN) for accelerated video encode/decode. VCN 5.0 patches were posted today for the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver...

Microsoft introduces Linux's sudo command to Windows 11  BetaNews

Microsoft is bringing Linux's sudo command to Windows 11  The Verge

Kicking off our NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper benchmarking at Phoronix is an initial look at the 72-core Grace CPU performance with 96GB of HBM3 memory. Here are some initial benchmarks of the Grace CPU performance while the Hopper GPU benchmarks will be coming in a follow-up article.

AMD posts Linux patches to enabled RDNA 4 GPUs — could RX 8000-series graphics cards actually arrive in 2024?  Tom's Hardware

Linux Vendors Squawk: PATCH NOW — CVSS 9.8 Bootkit Bug in shim.efi  Security Boulevard