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Patches For AMD GPUs On Loongson Point To "Massive Platform Bug" For These Chinese CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 06/18/2024 - 18:30
A set of patches were posted on Monday in aiming to get aging AMD Radeon GFX7/GFX8 era graphics processors working on Loongson LoongArch platforms. These patches for handling old Radeon Hawaii~Polaris GPUs on Loongson point to a "massive platform bug" with these domestic Chinese systems...

X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit v0.0.2 Adds NetBSD & FreeBSD Support

Phoronix - Tue, 06/18/2024 - 17:56
Last week marked the inaugural release of the X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit to make it easier to compile the X.Org Server. That v0.0.1 release was limited to supporting Debian/Apt-based Linux distributions while now this helper toolkit has been extended to support FreeBSD and NetBSD too...

How to Install Apache Pinot in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 06/18/2024 - 14:54
The post How to Install Apache Pinot in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Apache Pinot is a real-time distributed OLAP datastore designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency. It is often used

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LZ4 for Linux: Install, Use & Speed Up File Compression (Examples)

Tecmint - Tue, 06/18/2024 - 13:13
The post LZ4 for Linux: Install, Use & Speed Up File Compression (Examples) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

LZ4 is an extremely fast lossless compression algorithm that aims to provide very high speeds of compression and decompression (compression

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Fedora 41 Aims To Ship AMD SEV-SNP Confidential Virtualization Host Support

Phoronix - Tue, 06/18/2024 - 04:49
With the release of Fedora 41 in October, this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution is hoping to have all the software bits aligned that its AMD SEV-SNP virtualization stack will be all squared away for this latest iteration of Secure Encrypted Virtualization...

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