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

Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20%

While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a …
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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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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 uti…
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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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Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork

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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.

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

Banana Pi Puts RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU into Embedded Platform with Jetson-Like Form Factor Banana Pi Puts RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU into Embedded Platform with Jetson-Like Form Factor

Banana Pi has shared hardware details about an embedded platform built around the Renesas RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Performing Well, Achieving Faster Results On AMD EPYC 9005 Series

It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use. Jiving with what I had seen out of RHEL 10 beta performance and general expectations considering the plethora of software upgrades from RHEL 9 to RHEL 10, the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 releas…
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Performing Well, Achieving Faster Results On AMD EPYC 9005 Series

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Fedora 43 Looks To Drop i686 Support: No More Multi-Lib / x86 32-bit Packages

Fedora Linux for a while already stopped building i686 kernel releases and dropped their dedicated i686 repositories while now for the Fedora 43 release there is a proposal to take things further: finish gutting the i686 support. The new change proposal seeks to no longer include packages built for the i686 architecture and thereby dropping multi-lib support for …
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Fedora 43 Looks To Drop i686 Support: No More Multi-Lib / x86 32-bit Packages

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Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 Brings Fixes, C++20 Compatibility Updates

The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics driver...
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Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 Brings Fixes, C++20 Compatibility Updates

The Intel Graphics Compiler 'IGC' 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics drive…
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RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Some "Random Bits & Pieces" For CDNA Accelerators

The RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa supports GFX9/Vega graphics cards but not the later CDNA-based Instinct accelerators. However, some patches merged today for Mesa 25.2-devel did introduce some "random bits and pieces" for CDNA but not a full implementation...
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RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Some "Random Bits & Pieces" For CDNA Accelerators

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IBM Already Working On What Is Likely Power12 Support For The GCC Compiler

While we await the formal IBM Power11 launch in 2025, IBM engineers are already working on compiler support for "future" post-Power11 processors with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...
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IBM Already Working On What Is Likely Power12 Support For The GCC Compiler

While we await the formal IBM Power11 launch in 2025, IBM engineers are already working on compiler support for 'future' post-Power11 processors with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).
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Intel Xeon 6300 vs. AMD EPYC 4005 SMT/HT Performance

While the latest Intel Core Ultra processors have done away with Hyper Threading (HT), Intel Xeon CPUs continue supporting HT/SMT, including with their latest Xeon 6300 series budget server processors. As the new AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado" processors also support Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) and can be found at the same core/thread count count as the flagship Xeon 6369P proce…
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Intel Xeon 6300 vs. AMD EPYC 4005 SMT/HT Performance Review

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