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openSUSE Aeon RC2 Released With Btrfs Compression Default, ZRAM & Tik

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 18:13
Nearly one year ago to the day the openSUSE project anounced MicroOS Desktop GNOME being renamed to openSUSE Aeon while openSUSE Desktop Plasma was taking the name openSUSE Kalpa...

Ubuntu 24.04 Now Available For The Milk-V Mars RISC-V Single Board Computer

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 17:58
Canonical announced this morning an optimized Ubuntu 24.04 image for the Milk-V Mars, a "credit card sized" RISC-V single board computer...

FreeBSD 14.1-RC1 Adds More Packages To The DVD Images - Including The Sway Compositor

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 05:27
FreeBSD 14.1-RC1 is now available for testing as this incremental update to FreeBSD 14 prepares for its stable release in June...

Intel Performance Limit Reasons For Linux To Report Why Your CPU Is Downclocking

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 01:23
Intel Performance Limit Reasons (PLR) can indicate why your CPU is downclocking / limited to a lower performance limit for a given core or die. With some Windows utilities this information this Intel CPU feature has been available there while now Intel is bringing PLR support to Linux too...

Intel Releases ISPC 1.24 With New AVX-VNNI & AVX512-VNNI Targets

Phoronix - Mon, 05/27/2024 - 22:37
The Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) is out with a new version today for this C programming language variant that features SPMD programming extensions. Intel ISPC aims to make it easy to take advantage of SIMD capabilities on their modern processors as well as GPUs...

AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.1 Improves Raspberry Pi Support

Phoronix - Mon, 05/27/2024 - 21:44
AMD by way of their GPUOpen group have released version 3.1 of the open-source Vulkan Memory Allocator...

Linux Patches Posted For Enabling A 22 x 35 mm RISC-V / ARM Board

Phoronix - Mon, 05/27/2024 - 18:55
Linux kernel patches were posted today for enabling Linux to boot on the LicheeRV Nano, a mini single board computer that comes in at a mere 22.86 x 35.56 mm. As interesting as the size with this SBC is the Sophgo SG2002 SoC that features a mix of RISC-V and ARM cores...

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