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Coreboot 24.02 Released - Supporting Three New Motherboards

Phoronix - Fri, 03/01/2024 - 23:35
Succeeding last year's Coreboot 4.22 release is now a new release... Coreboot 24.02. This open-source system firmware project is now the latest to shift to a year-month versioning system. The newly-christened Coreboot 24.02 brings support for three new motherboards, a number of ACPI updates, and also pulls in the new GRUB 2.12 and other changes...

Experimental VRR Support Might Still Land For GNOME 46

Phoronix - Fri, 03/01/2024 - 23:24
The long in-development work for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support plumbed into GNOME's Mutter compositor might still make it for the GNOME 46 desktop release due out this month. It's still being treated as an experimental feature at this point but a feature freeze exception is being sought to allow its inclusion this release rather than waiting for GNOME 47 in the autumn...

Intel's oneDNN Neural Network Library Prepares For Lunar Lake Xe2, Sierra Forest & GNR

Phoronix - Fri, 03/01/2024 - 22:49
Intel has published oneDNN 3.4 as the newest version of this Deep Neural Network Library that is part of their oneAPI software collection. The oneDNN library provides deep learning primitives for software like PyTorch, MXNet, ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, MATLAB Deep Learning Toolbox, and other sotware...

The X.Org Foundation Needs More Candidates To Hold An Election

Phoronix - Fri, 03/01/2024 - 22:00
The X.Org Foundation's elections for the Board of Directors have been delayed as there weren't enough participants nominated for the available seats to hold an election...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Won't Support JPEG-XL Out-Of-The-Box

Phoronix - Fri, 03/01/2024 - 20:00
There had been some hope that the Ubuntu 24.04 desktop would support the JPEG-XL image format out-of-the-box, but that isn't going to happen as a default change...

Intel Enables Fastboot Across The Board With Their Graphics Driver In Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Fri, 03/01/2024 - 19:53
A last set of drm-intel-next feature patches were submitted this week for DRM-Next to stage ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel merge window...

CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February

Phoronix - Fri, 03/01/2024 - 19:40
February was an exciting month in the hardware and Linux/open-source space with 224 original news articles written by your's truly over the past month along with 15 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark featured articles. There was a lot of exciting open-source accomplishments, the launch of the AMD Ryzen 8000G series APUs with RDNA3 graphics, breaking the news about ZLUDA providing CUDA atop AMD ROCm as a formerly stealth project, the Znver5 GCC patch emerging, and more...

Musl libc 1.2.5 Released With RISC-V 32-bit & LoongArch 64-bit Ports

Phoronix - Fri, 03/01/2024 - 19:24
Musl libc 1.2.5 released on Thursday as the newest version of this lightweight, speedy, and free software C library implementation that is popular for embedded use, containers, and elsewhere...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Enters Its Feature Freeze

Phoronix - Fri, 03/01/2024 - 19:10
Now rolling into March, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" has entered its feature freeze period ahead of its official release in April...

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