Two years ago Intel published a blazing fast AVX-512 sorting library , x86-simd-sort. The x86-simd-sort
Intel's Latest Open-Source Project To End & Layoff Developers... But A New Home At NumPy
Two years ago Intel published a blazing fast AVX-512 sorting library , x86-simd-sort. The x86-simd-sort
AMD "GFX1251" Target Added To LLVM As Latest RDNA 4.5 APU
OpenJDK 25 & GraalVM 25 Released With 32-bit x86 Support Removed
Oracle is supporting Java 25 for the next eight years as a long-term support (LTS) release. OpenJDK 25 brings module import declarations, flexible constructor bodies, and compact source files / instance main methods to make it easier for newcomers to learn Java. OpenJDK Java 25 also worked on the latest Vector API, scoped values, and more.
More details on the many Java 25 changes via
AMD Hardware Would Ideally Be Supported By ROCm For ~10 Years
Yes, the official ROCm hardware support matrix for Linux is very sparse on the consumer side. But, yes, there are many more GPUs in effect supported by
GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player
GNOME 49 continues with a variety of Wayland improvements, Showtime is now the default video player on GNOME to replace Totem, Papers has replaced Evince as the new document viewer, GNOME Web (Epiphany) continues to be enhanced, and there are a wide variety of other improvements to both the core desktop and
Latest Open-Source AMD Improvements Allowing For Better Llama.cpp AI Performance Against Windows 11
When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks I also ended up carrying out some Llama.cpp AI benchmarks as the first time exploring the AI inferencing performance between Windows and Linux for both CPU and GPU-accelerated deployments. Here are those results for exploring the Llama.cpp performance between Windows and Linux with different large language models.
With creator workloads and other areas commonly explored in our Windows vs. Linux benchmarking, Linux typically leads even when using the common Ubuntu at its defaults
A Quick Look At The AMD Instinct MI355X With ROCm 7.0
The AMD Instinct MI355X "hands on" yesterday to celebrate ROCm 7.0 and the MI350X/MI355X hardware ended up being just following a guided Jupyter Notebook for an AI demo...
systemd 258 Released With systemd-factory-reset & Other New Tools
Systemd 258 brings systemd-factory-reset to request a factory reset on the next reboot, systemd-pty-forward to allocate a pseudo TTY/PTY, UEFI firmware images can now be embedded in a UKI, and many other new features .
Systemd 258 also refines existing functionality and is preparing to raise Linux system requirements in systemd 259 .
Microsoft Rolls Out A Linux 6.12 LTS Option For Azure Linux
Azure Linux is finally offering Linux 6.12 LTS as a hardware enablement "HWE" kernel option for working nicer with newer hardware platforms. Linux 6
Linux 6.18 To Add Detection For FreeBSD's Bhyve Hypervisor
As covered originally a few days ago, the Linux kernel has been working on Bhyve hypervisor detection for being able to support more than 255 vCPUs . The FreeBSD 15.0 release coming out in December has 15-bit MSI enlightenment support for being able to handle more than 255 vCPUs. Thus for Linux VM