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Btrfs Slated To Make Use Of New Mount API In Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 16:00
Coming up for the Linux 6.8 kernel the Btrfs file-system is preparing to make use of the newer Linux file-system mounting API...

The Gentoo Linux Installation Guide – Part 2

Tecmint - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 13:11
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As mentioned in Part 1 of the Gentoo installation procedure, installing Gentoo is quite daunting, and often requires a lot of patience due to the

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"GMEM" Proposed To Deal With Memory Management For Accelerators, External Memory Devices

Phoronix - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 13:00
Generalized Memory Management "GMEM" has been proposed as a new solution to be developed for the Linux kernel to deal with memory management for external memory devices like the growing number of accelerators coming to market...

Coreboot 4.22 Released: Initial AMD OpenSIL Code Added, 17 New Motherboards

Phoronix - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 06:00
A new release of Coreboot is available today as the increasingly popular open-source system firmware solution that's used by Chromebooks, increasing hyperscaler / data center industry interest due to increased code transparency and security, System76 laptops, and more. Coreboot 4.22 is the new release and brings initial AMD OpenSIL code integration, 17 new motherboard ports, and more. Coreboot 4.22 will be succeeded next year by Coreboot 24.02...

Intel CR 23.35.27191.9 Released As A Big Update To Their Open-Source GPU Compute Stack

Phoronix - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 01:18
Intel today published Compute-Runtime 23.35.27191.9 as their latest update to this open-source GPU compute stack enabling OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support on Linux and Windows. With this being their first tagged release since September, it's coming in heavy on changes...

NVK Driver Nearing Vulkan 1.1 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 & Newer

Phoronix - Wed, 11/29/2023 - 00:25
It was just last week NVK developers were celebrating Vulkan 1.0 conformance while now this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa is preparing to expose Vulkan 1.1 support...

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