Amid the recent Intel layoffs/restructuring at the company and seeing what other open-source/Linux software efforts are being impacted (e.
Intel Quietly Sunset Its PlaidML Open-Source Deep Learning Software
Amid the recent Intel layoffs/restructuring at the company and seeing what other open-source/Linux software efforts are being impacted (e.
Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance
Linux 6.16 has been baking a lot from performance improvements to new
Bcachefs Lands Last Minute Fixes For Linux 6.16
The Bcachefs fixes merged today are for addressing user-reported bugs with this experimental copy-on-write file-system:
- Fix btree node scan on encrypted filesystems by not using btree node header fields encrypted
- Fix a race in btree write buffer flush; this caused EROs primarily during fsck for some people
More details on
Final Benchmarks Of Clear Linux On Intel: ~48% Faster Than Ubuntu Out-Of-The-Box
Last week Friday the unfortunate news came down that Intel was discontinuing their Clear Linux project effective immediately . For the past ten years Intel software engineers have been crafting Clear Linux as a high performance distribution that is extensively optimized for x86_64 processors via aggressive compiler tuning, various patches to the Linux kernel and other packages, and a variety of other optimizations throughout the operating system. For years Clear Linux has led Linux x86_64 performance not only on Intel desktop/mobile/server hardware but
Threadripper 9000 Series Available On 31 July, 9980X For $4999 USD
Threadripper 9000 series availability is set to start on next Thursday, 31 July.
AMD's blog post today announcing the Threadripper 9000 series also confirmed the suggested launch price. The 24-core Threadripper 996
Fedora Considers Reducing The Scope That BIOS Systems Can Hold Up A Release
Fedora would still support non-UEFI BIOS systems but the scope that any issues discovered would hold up a Fedora Linux release would be more limited. Due to BIOS and UEFI testing effectively doubling the amount of testing/QA work by
Ayn Gaming Handhelds To See Better Linux Support With New Open-Source Driver
Derek Clark who is the developer that led work on the Lenovo Legion Go S Linux improvements and with the upcoming Linux 6.17 will have the Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers
Red Hat Has Been Rewriting Bash-Based Greenboot In Rust
Greenboot started out as health checks written in Bash scripts for evaluating the overall system health and interfacing with systemd. But an ongoing effort has been rewriting Greenboot in Rust rather than Bash. That "greenboot-rs" effort has been successful and the engineers involved are preparing
Fedora 43 Looks To Offer Support For The Hare Programming Language
The Hare programming language continues to be developed as a simple, stable, and robust programming language. Hare brings a static type system, manual memory management, and a minimal runtime. Its intended use is for operating system development and other low-level system tasks. A basic Hare code example from the project:
Vulkan + Mesa Drivers For AI Inferencing? It's Already Showing Potential On Radeon RADV
