The pull request is pending that would allow Clang Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) to be enabled when building the Linux 5.12 kernel with this alternative compiler. The initial pull request has the compiler optimization work ready for the core infrastructure and 64-bit ARM (AArch64) while the x86_64 support isn't expected until the Linux 5.13 cycle.

Last month we outlined the Clang LTO ambitions for the mainline Linux kernel and it getting into position for 5

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved plans for "Fedora Kinoite" as the newest spin to debut this autumn alongside Fedora 35.

Fedora Kinoite is basically an immutable desktop spin that is akin to Fedora Silverblue but making use of the KDE Plasma desktop rather than the GNOME Shell. Fedora Fedora Kinoite will make use of RPM-OSTree, Flatpaks, Podman, and other technologies employed by Fedora Silverblue, but it will be using the KDE desktop.

So what is "Kinoite" in the equation?

Last year was the interesting remarks by Microsoft that they want to " create a complete virtualization stack with Linux ." The latest fruits of that are set to land with the Linux 5.12 kernel.

As part of increasing the Linux virtualization support within the Microsoft space, they were working to allow Linux root partition support with the Microsoft hypervisor. The "root partition" with their hypervisor is similar to Xen's Dom0 for in turn starting and managing the unprivileged domains. Linux 5.12 is set

Out today is a new release of Intel's open-source oneDNN library used as a deep neural network library for assembling deep learning applications. With the new oneDNN 2.1 release there is now initial support for NVIDIA GPU acceleration as well as a host of improvements for running on forthcoming Intel CPUs.

oneDNN 2.1 is the latest feature-packed update to this oneAPI component formerly known as DNNL and before that was MKL-DNN. The oneDNN 2.1 release has a variety of improvements when running on

Today marks five years since the announcement of Vulkan 1.0 . Over the past five years we have seen incredible adoption of this high performance graphics API across multiple platforms, open-source Vulkan drivers that are kept up to date well with the latest spec revisions, exciting new extensions, and the spec continues to receive new extensions and revisions on an almost bi-weekly basis.

It was 16 February 2016 that Vulkan 1.0 was announced with the initial game of The Talos Principle running atop Vulkan

Found with mobile Intel CPUs across Tiger Lake, Ice Lake, and even Cannon Lake has been the Intel GNA accelerator. This Gaussian and Neural Accelerator is also found with Intel Gemini Lake processors and various development kits. The Intel GNA has been backed by an out-of-tree Linux driver while now the company is finally working to upstream their GNA support in the Linux kernel.

Intel's Gaussian and Neural Accelerator is a neural co-processor that can be used for offloading inference workloads. The GNA on modern Intel

Linux 5.12 pull requests continue coming in for the newly-opened merge window that in turn should see its stable release in late April.

Linux power management maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel submitted the updates on Monday along with the routine ACPI updates. On the power management front most notable is the introduction of the Dynamic Thermal Power Management (DTPM) framework after missing out on 5.11 landing plus there are a lot of other miscellaneous updates throughout this important area of the kernel with modern devices.

- Dynamic

The KDE community today released Plasma 5.21 as the latest major release of this open-source desktop.

Among the changes to enjoy with KDE Plasma 5.21 include:

- Plasma 5.21 features a new application launcher that is more sleak and new features over its prior launcher.

- Plasma's KWin compositor / window manager features much better Wayland support. KDE remains committed to offering first-class Wayland support with Plasma 5.21 being a big step towards that milestone.

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