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SUSE Edge upgrade targets Kubernetes and Linux at the edge lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

SUSE Edge upgrade targets Kubernetes and Linux at the edge

SUSE Edge 3.1 includes a new stack validation framework and an image builder tool that are aimed at improving the scalability and manageability of complex Kubernetes and Linux edge-computing deployments.
Sean Michael Kerner (Network World)

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VKD3D-Proton Has Been Working On Emulating D3D12 Work Graphs, But The Tech Disappoints

Back in March for GDC, Microsoft excitingly announced the official releases of Direct3D 12 Work Graphs for "enabling new types of GPU autonomy" for allowing more rendering work to be offloaded to the GPU. While this greater GPU-driven rendering with Work Graphs has been talked up by Microsoft and other parties, Valve engineers working on VKD3D-Proton for…
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VKD3D-Proton Has Been Working On Emulating D3D12 Work Graphs, But The Tech Disappoints

Back in March for GDC, Microsoft excitingly announced the official releases of Direct3D 12 Work Graphs for 'enabling new types of GPU autonomy' for allowing more rendering work to be offloaded to the GPU
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Initial Benchmarks Of The AMD AOCC 5.0 Compiler On 5th Gen EPYC

Last week when launching the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors, on the same day AOCC 5.0 was quietly released as the newest version of AMD's Zen-focused compiler derived from LLVM/Clang. With not only adding AMD Zen 5 "znver5" support but also additional vectorization improvements and other performance optimizations, I was eager to run some benchmarks of AOCC 5.0 against the open-source GC…
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Initial Benchmarks Of The AMD AOCC 5.0 Compiler On 5th Gen EPYC

Last week when launching the AMD EPYC 9005 'Turin' processors, on the same day AOCC 5.0 was quietly released as the newest version of AMD's Zen-focused compiler derived from LLVM/Clang.
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Arch-based Bluestar Linux 6.11.3 now available with multiple updated packages lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Arch-based Bluestar Linux 6.11.3 now available with multiple updated packages

Hailing from Germany and based on Arch Linux, Bluestar is a distro that comes in three editions (Desktop, Deskpro, and Developer) and has just been updated to version 6.11.3.
Codrut Nistor (Notebookcheck)

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Solus 4.6 Released With Continued Merged Usr Migration, Experimental Software Centers

Solus 4.6 is out as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution that is known for its default Budgie desktop while also shipping with other desktop options...
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Solus 4.6 Released With Continued Merged Usr Migration, Experimental Software Centers

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Intel oneDNN 3.6 Improves Performance For Granite Rapids, Initial Xe2 Optimizations

Intel engineers have released the oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library "oneDNN" version 3.6 release that serves as the building blocks for deep learning software like ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, Apache MXNet, Apache SIGNA, and optionally by PyTorch and TensorFlow with Intel's extensions...
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Intel oneDNN 3.6 Improves Performance For Granite Rapids, Initial Xe2 Optimizations

Intel engineers have released the oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library 'oneDNN' version 3.6 release that serves as the building blocks for deep learning software like ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, Apache MXNet, Apache SIGNA, and optionally by PyTorch and Ten…
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Unvanquished Working On OpenGL 4.6 Renderer Support

It's been a while since we have seen anything new to report on Unvanquished as one of the few remaining and promising open-source game projects. The Unvanquished FPS/RTS game has been in development for 12 years now and built atop the Daemon engine that is now a very distant fork from the id Tech 3 engine. The latest now is that Unvanquished has been pushing forward OpenGL 4.6 rendering su…
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Unvanquished Working On OpenGL 4.6 Renderer Support

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ARM64 SMT Control Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel

While ARM-based SoCs with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) aren't too common, there do exist some such as select models of the Huawei Kunpeng server SoC with SMT or there HiSilicon Kirin 9000S. As such Huawei/HiSilicon engineers have been working to expose SMT controls on ARM64 for the Linux kernel...
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ARM64 SMT Control Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel

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Asahi Linux distro can now run AAA games like Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3 on Apple Silicon chips lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Asahi Linux distro can now run AAA games like Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3 on Apple Silicon chips

Asahi Linux is an ambitious project aimed at bringing a polished Linux experience to Apple Silicon Macs. The system was created by Hector Martin, known as Marcan,...
Alfonso Maruccia (TechSpot)

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Why this lightweight Linux distro won't win any popularity contests but is perfect for power users lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Why this lightweight Linux distro won't win any popularity contests but is perfect for power users

AntiX is a systemd-free Linux live CD distribution based on Debian Stable for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems that runs blazing fast and offers a familiar desktop.
Jack Wallen (ZDNET)

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OpenZFS 2.3-rc2 Brings CPU Pinning & Optimized Kernel Same-Page Merging

OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 released last week with RAIDZ expansion, fast deduplication, and direct IO support among other changes for this ZFS file-system implementation for use on Linux and FreeBSD systems. OpenZFS 2.3-rc2 is out today with a few more interesting changes...
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OpenZFS 2.3-rc2 Brings CPU Pinning & Optimized Kernel Same-Page Merging

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