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How to Install Proxmox (Server Virtualization) on Debian 12

Tecmint - Mon, 12/18/2023 - 13:23
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Proxmox Virtual Environment is a robust and open-source virtualization platform based on Debian GNU/Linux that ships with a custom kernel and encapsulates KVM virtualization and

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Linux 6.7-rc6 Released: "Various Random Fixes All Over"

Phoronix - Mon, 12/18/2023 - 08:10
Linux 6.7-rc6 was released today while the final release of Linux 6.7 is likely to come New Year's weekend and complicating the opening of the Linux 6.8 merge window around the end-of-year holidays...

The First Rust-Written Network PHY Driver Set To Land In Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Mon, 12/18/2023 - 03:21
Since Linux 6.1 when the very initial Rust infrastructure was added to the Linux kernel there's been a lot of other plumbing and house keeping merged since for enabling kernel drivers to be written in the Rust programming language. With the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle, the first Rust network driver is set to be introduced...

AMD Enables VCN Region Of Interest "ROI" Video Encoder Support For Linux GPU Drivers

Phoronix - Sun, 12/17/2023 - 22:18
While not talked about as much as the AMD open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux, AMD's multimedia stack on Linux continues to be improved upon for supporting new use-cases with AMD-based Linux deployments continuing to come up in the embedded space for all different applications like in-vehicle infotainment systems. The newest AMD video acceleration feature to now be wired up to their open-source Mesa code is enabling region of interest (ROI) encoding functionality...

For At Least One Game, Mesa's NVK Driver Can Outperform NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 12/17/2023 - 20:04
In at least one game running on Linux via Proton Experimental, the Mesa NVK open-source Vulkan driver paired with the latest Nouveau reverse-engineered kernel driver is delivering better performance than NVIDIA's proprietary Linux graphics driver...

Cloud Hypervisor 37 LTS Released With Faster VM Restoration From Snapshots

Phoronix - Sun, 12/17/2023 - 19:50
A new Long-Term Support version of Cloud Hypervisor was released this week, which is the open-source project originally started by Intel as a cloud-focused and Rust-written VMM that now has wide industry backing including from multiple other CPU vendors...

Sophgo SG2380 RISC-V SoC To Now Support Up To 96GB RAM, Additional PCIe & 25 GbE

Phoronix - Sun, 12/17/2023 - 19:34
Back in October the Milk-V Oasis mITX board was announced with this RISC-V board being powered by a 16-core Sophgo SG2380 SoC featuring SiFive-designed cores: 12 P cores and four E cores. While that Milk-V Oasis board isn't expected to ship until Q3'2024, Milk-V shared this week that the SG2380 RISC-V SoC has been revised with additional capabilities...

Intel Proposing XeGPU Dialect For LLVM MLIR

Phoronix - Sun, 12/17/2023 - 19:24
As part of Intel's ongoing quest for maximizing the compute performance of their GPUs/accelerators, their compiler engineers have proposed introducing a XeGPU dialect for LLVM's MLIR...

Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future

Phoronix - Sun, 12/17/2023 - 02:50
There was recently a mini DebConf in Cambridge where the Debian GNU/Linux release team held a spring and figured out some items moving forward, including the dim future for i386 moving forward...

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