Open Source LLM

NVIDIA Announces MONAI Open-Source AI Project

NVIDIA has announced MONAI as their newest open-source initiative...


Intel

An Intel Keem Bay Driver Is Posted To Avoid The SoC Suffering Inadvertent Reboots

As I wrote about just over a month ago, Intel open-source developers have begun their bring-up of the Keem Bay SoC. Out today is a new Keem Bay driver to avoid a situation where inadvertent reboots could happen without this driver...


Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 Released With Many Benchmark Result Viewer Improvements

Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.0 is now available as the newest quarterly feature release to our cross-platform, open-source benchmarking software...


Open Source LLM

GNU Shepherd 0.8 Released As An Alternative To Systemd

GNU Shepherd, the official init system and service manager of the GNU operating system, is out with its newest update...


Apple Silicon|Intel

AMD Announces The Ryzen 3 3100 + Ryzen 3 3300X Processors

AMD has expanded its highly successful Zen 2 family with some new low-end parts...


Debian Dropping A Number Of Old Linux Drivers Is Angering Vintage Hardware Users

More than a few Phoronix readers have written in over the past few days expressing outrage that Debian GNU/Linux is dropping a number of old hardware drivers...


Open Source LLM|Intel

TLB State Access Being Tightened Up On Linux For Better Security

The latest Linux kernel security work being pursued by Thomas Gleixner is tightening up access around the kernel's per-CPU TLB state access for the translation lookaside buffer...


NixOS 20.03 Released Atop Linux 5.4, Various Desktop/Display Improvements

NixOS 20.03 has been released as the newest version of this Linux distribution built atop the Nix package manager...


VirtIO-FS Support Is In QEMU 5.0 For Better File/Folder Sharing Between Hosts And VMs

Added back in Linux 5.4 was the VirtIO-FS file-system driver as a a FUSE-framework-based file-system implementation designed for guest to/from host file-system sharing for VirtIO para-virtualized devices. Now with QEMU 5.0 VirtIO-FS is supported on its side...


Open Source LLM|Intel

Intel Working On Slim Bootloader Integration Improvements For The Linux Kernel

Slim Bootloader is the open-source initiative Intel announced in Q3'2018 for providing a very bare bones BSD-licensed open-source firmware implementation. We're now seeing new Linux patches for improving the integration with the Slim Bootloader...