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Wayland 1.23 Alpha Released With OpenBSD Support & New APIs

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 01:14
As expected, the Wayland 1.23 Alpha release is now available as this next Wayland release looks to officially roll-out toward the end of May...

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X & Intel Core i9 14900K: Ubuntu 22.04 vs. 23.10 vs. 24.04 Linux Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 00:02
As part of my ongoing benchmarking of the newly-released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux distribution, today's focus is looking at the high-end Intel Core i9 14900K and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X desktops while comparing the performance across Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu 23.10, and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for dozens of workloads.

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2024.1 With More Gen AI & LLM Features

Phoronix - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 23:00
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)...

Sovereign Tech Fund Makes New Investments Into GNOME & PHP, Bug Bounty For systemd

Phoronix - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 22:26
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 - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 22:03
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...

Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Enables VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2

Phoronix - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 21:51
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...

Fedora Miracle Spin Proposed For Fedora 41

Phoronix - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 18:48
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...

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