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Renewed Talk Of User-Space Consoles, Accelerators In The DRM Subsystem

Phoronix - Sat, 09/17/2022 - 02:30
Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem maintainer has shared some notes following this week's Linux Plumbers Conference in Dublin. In particular, the matter of whether the growing number of accelerators / AI devices belong within the DRM subsystem or elsewhere and separately there is renewed talks of user-space consoles to potentially push Linux distributions towards moving away from the in-kernel VT...

"Intel Processor" Replaces Pentium & Celeron Brands

Phoronix - Sat, 09/17/2022 - 00:10
Intel announced today that beginning with 2023 notebooks, the Intel Pentium and Intel Celeron brands will be replaced by... Intel Processor...

Ubuntu 22.10 Aiming To Support The $16+ Sipeed LicheeRV RISC-V Board

Phoronix - Fri, 09/16/2022 - 22:15
In addition to Ubuntu supporting the StarFive VisionFive and Nezha RISC-V boards, Canonical engineers are also working on supporting the Sipeed LicheeRV board too for next month's 22.10 release. The Sipeed LicheeRV is notable in being one of the cheapest RISC-V boards out there: pricing starts at $16.90 USD...

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs. Ryzen 7 5800X3D On Linux 6.0 Benchmarks

Phoronix - Fri, 09/16/2022 - 18:36
Along with the fresh look at the Intel Core i9 12900K vs. AMD Ryzen 9 5950X on Linux using the latest development kernel and other bleeding-edge software packages, today's article is a fresh look at how the Ryzen 7 5800X3D with 3D V-Cache is performing relative to the Ryzen 7 5800X.

Intel Sends More Meteor Lake Code, GSC For Xe HP SDV For Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Fri, 09/16/2022 - 17:37
Intel submitted their final set of "drm-intel-gt-next" feature changes intended for merging in the upcoming Linux 6.1 kernel merge window that opens in early October...

ASUS & Canonical Partner On The IoT / Edge Computing Front

Phoronix - Fri, 09/16/2022 - 17:17
Canonical announced this morning that they have partnered with ASUS IoT, the division of ASUS focused on providing "Internet of Things" hardware, to certify Ubuntu Linux for their devices...

Qt 6.4 Release Candidate Arrives With Added Modules For 3D Physics, HTTP Server

Phoronix - Fri, 09/16/2022 - 16:55
Qt 6.4 is continuing to run on-schedule and out today is the release candidate ahead of the stable release expected around the end of the month...

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