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AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 Released With New Extensions, Other Changes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 December, 2024

AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 is out today as the newest official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver release for Linux systems...

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Fedora 42 Looking To Package Intel SGX Software Stack

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 December, 2024

Fedora stakeholders are evaluating supporting an Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) software stack with next year's Fedora 42 release...

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New Linux Patches Cleanup Code For Running x86 32-bit Kernels On x86_64 CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 December, 2024

As we approach 2025, hopefully none of you are still running x86 32-bit kernels / 32-bit OS software on x86_64 processors, but should you still be into that, there are improvements on the way...

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Intel Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 Released Ahead Of The Arc B580 "Battlemage" Launch

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 December, 2024

The Intel Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 is out as the newest monthly-ish update to this open-source GPU compute stack used on Linux and Windows for the OpenCL and Level Zero support. This Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 is also the last update ahead of next week's Battlemage availability with the Arc B580 graphics card...

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VTE-Based Linux Terminals Now Support A Nice Feature Led By Windows Terminal

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 December, 2024

VTE-based terminals on Linux like Ptyxis are now seeing support introduced to better display progress state for long-running processes with a more visually pleasing progress bar. Microsoft's Windows Terminal has already supported this feature while now with systemd beginning to support using these Operating System Command escape sequences, Linux terminal support is on the rise...

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SDL Introducing Async I/O APIs - Backed By IO_uring On Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 December, 2024

Longtime Linux game porter Ryan Gordon has introduced initial asynchronous I/O APIs for the in-development SDL3 library. On Linux these async I/O APIs allow making use of the modern kernel IO_uring functionality...

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AMD ROCm 6.3 Tags Begin Appearing On GitHub

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 December, 2024

Last week ROCm 6.3 was announced on the AMD Community Blog with a set of nice enhancements to this open-source GPU compute stack. While some good additions, when the announcement went live ROCm 6.2 software was still showing up as the latest and the open-source code via GitHub wasn't yet reflecting ROCm 6.3... That changed today...

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Fedora 42 Aims To Enhance The Windows Subsystem For Linux Experience

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 December, 2024

A new feature proposal seeks to improve the Fedora Linux experience when running under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 11...

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Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics With Linux Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 December, 2024

Succeeding the Intel Arc Graphics discrete graphics cards that launched two years ago as the DG2/Alchemist series, the next-gen Battlemage graphics cards are being announced today. The embargo lifts today on the new Intel Arc B-Series graphics cards with initial availability next week. Like the prior generation Intel graphics and as discussed already in many Phoronix articles, Battlemage is still treated to fully open-source graphics driver support on Linux.