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GNOME Shell Lands Improved Icon & Text Scaling

Phoronix - Wed, 12/06/2023 - 00:55
GNOME Shell has merged a set of 35 patches to fix/improve icon and text scaling support, especially when using the Large Text mode for accessibility...

Fedora Workstation 39 Delivers Some Nice Gains For AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Graphics

Phoronix - Tue, 12/05/2023 - 22:32
Here are some benchmarks looking at the performance uplift in migrating from Fedora Workstation 38 to Fedora Workstation 39 on an AMD Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" series laptop...

Intel, AMD, Red Hat / IBM, Meta & Others Launch The AI Alliance

Phoronix - Tue, 12/05/2023 - 22:00
The AI Alliance has launched as a consortium focused on advancing open, safe, and responsible AI...

TornadoVM 1.0 Released For Running Java On Heterogeneous Hardware: CPUs, GPUs & FPGAs

Phoronix - Tue, 12/05/2023 - 19:49
TornadoVM 1.0 has been released as the open-source software providing an OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in for allowing Java on heterogeneous hardware from multi-core CPUs to GPUs and FPGAs. TornadoVM allows targeting OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX, and SPIR-V devices for a rather robust array of hardware support...

LZ4 Support Revised For Faster Restore From Linux Hibernation

Phoronix - Tue, 12/05/2023 - 19:24
Published originally back in October were a set of patches for allowing different compression algorithms for the Linux hibernation image to yield faster restore times. That work -- focused on LZ4 compression support -- has been revised as it works toward the mainline kernel...

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