NVIDIA Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of "NOVA" Open-Source Rust NVIDIA GPU Driver

The NOVA-Core driver as the basis for a modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA GPU driver for the upstream Linux kernel and eventual successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau DRM driver has a new co-maintainer...
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Proposal To Ship XLibre As X11 Server Packages On Fedora Linux Is Withdrawn

The controversial proposal to replace the upstream X.Org X11 server packages on Fedora Linux with XLibre is not going to happen... At least not for now. The change proposal has been withdrawn prior to being voted on by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo)...
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Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project

One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine. To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they finally and formally discontinued the open-source project...
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AVX-512's Enormous Advantage On AMD EPYC 4005 Series Performance

The AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado"" processors launched by AMD in May for entry-level servers offer downright amazing value, performance, and power efficiency over the Intel Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series competition. Intel's top-of-stack Xeon 6300 (Xeon 6369P) / Xeon E processors fail to compete with even the mid-tier EPYC 4005 series processors in either performance, power, or cost ef…
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Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

RADV Driver Introduces Limited Support For NVIDIA Cooperative Matrix Extension

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged support for the VK_NV_cooperative_matrix2 NVIDIA Vulkan extension but it's hidden by default and only partially supported with a focus on helping FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 and VKD3D-Proton...
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Intel Preps Linux PTC "Throttling Control Interface" To Run Hotter For Better Performance

With the Linux 6.16 kernel Intel enabled the new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) interface as part of their int340x thermal driver. Now ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel Intel PTC is being extended to support a Throttling Control Interface for those that may prefer running their system(s) hotter in order to enjoy better performance...
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Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches

Dutch electronics company Fairphone today announced their Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone as the successor to the Fairphone 5. Fairphone 6 continues to be repair-friendly and was just announced this morning while already the Linux support patches have hit the Linux kernel mailing list...
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Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 Brings Fixes, C++20 Compatibility Updates lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20% lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux Kernel's gconfig Finally Ported From GTK2 To GTK3

While the GIMP image editor received a bad rap for the amount of time it took to see a stable release based on the GTK3 toolkit rather than GTK2, only today patches have emerged for taking the Linux kernel's gconfig graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3...
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Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork

In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.Org X11 Server with the controversial XLibre fork...
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in reply to Phoronix

Leaving aside the legitimate concerns about the project's governance right now, and speaking as someone who'd dearly like Xorg to be forked by someone who cares about X11, XLibre doesn't sound as if it's a viable, compatible, replacement right now. Certainly it needs time to prove itself and for its developer base to prove their commitment to maintaining a stable, secure, and backward compatible X11 server.

Banana Pi Puts RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU into Embedded Platform with Jetson-Like Form Factor lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…