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PVM Virtualization Framework Proposed For Linux - Built Atop The KVM Hypervisor

Phoronix - Tue, 02/27/2024 - 00:19
Ant Group and Alibaba have proposed PVM, the Pagetable Virtual Machine, as a new virtualization framework built upon the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. PVM does not require hardware-assisted virtualization while working with KVM-enabled software like Kata Containers...

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE Linux Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 22:00
Last July AMD launched the Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics card in China with a reduced Navi 31 GPU. Beginning tomorrow, 27 February, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE is being made available worldwide. Today the review embargo expires on the Radeon RX 7900 GRE for the worldwide scope and within the US will be priced around $549 USD.

SDDM 0.21 Display Manager Released With Better Wayland Support, Qt6 Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 19:55
Released last June was the SDDM 0.20 display manager with experimental Wayland support and other enhancements after being in development for three years. Out this morning is SDDM 0.21 as another step toward SDDM 1.0 with improved Wayland support and other enhancements to this Qt-tooled display manager...

Mesa OpenGL Threading Work Sees Much Reduced Memory Footprint For OpenGL Calls

Phoronix - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 19:00
Longtime AMD open-source Mesa developer Marek Olšák after more than one decade working officially for AMD and years before that as an independent open-source contributor going back to the R300g days still has not run out of new performance optimizations to pursue. The most recent accomplishment for this leading Mesa contributor are some refinements to the OpenGL threading "glthread" code for lowering the memory footprint...

Intel Xeon D "Granite Rapids-D" Processors Coming In 2025

Phoronix - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 19:00
Intel confirmed at their MWC 2024 briefings that Granite Rapids D will debut in 2025 as the successor to Ice Lake D for Xeon D edge processors...

Level Up Linux: 20 Advanced Commands for Mid-Level Users

Tecmint - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 17:05
The post Level Up Linux: 20 Advanced Commands for Mid-Level Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

You may have found the first article, ‘Useful Commands for Beginners‘ very helpful, as it was intended for newbies, this article is tailored for middle-level

The post Level Up Linux: 20 Advanced Commands for Mid-Level Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Reverse-Engineered NPU Driver Tantalizingly Close To Proprietary Driver Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 17:00
When it comes to neural processing unit NPU/AI accelerators for Linux there is open-source options with the likes most notably of Intel-owned Habana Labs leading the way, Intel's iVPU driver for the NPU found within Meteor Lake SoCs, AMD recently posting a Ryzen AI Linux driver, etc. When it comes to reverse-engineered efforts, the Etnaviv project has expanded its scopes from just Vivante graphics IP to also embracing the Vivante NPU IP for running workloads like TensorFlow Lite. With the latest open-source achievements, the Etnaviv NPU performance is coming incredibly close to the proprietary and official driver...

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