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Canonical To Release Monthly Ubuntu Snapshots For Testing & Building Out Automation

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 May

Canonical is sticking to Ubuntu Linux releases every six months and a Long Term Support (LTS) release every two years, but a new change to their development process is that they are now working to release monthly Ubuntu snapshots of their testing stream...

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More Intel Battlemage Graphics PCI IDs Added To Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 May

Intel engineers have added yet more PCI graphics device IDs for Battlemage to their open-source driver code within Mesa for Iris OpenGL and ANV Vulkan driver support...

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Intel Hardware Support Expanded In EDAC Drivers For Linux 6.16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 May

With the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates sent out this week for the Linux 6.16 kernel there is support for a number of newer Intel hardware platforms...

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Mesa's Rusticl Lands Support For Shared Virtual Memory & Intel Subgroups

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 May

Rusticl as Mesa's Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation for Gallium3D drivers is ending the month of May on a high note... Merged this week was support for the Intel Subgroups OpenCL extension (cl_intel_subgroups) and before getting to that on my TODO list, an even bigger item was merged: Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support...

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VirtualBox 7.2 Beta Brings Windows 11 Arm Support, Source Code On GitHub

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 May

Oracle engineers have released the first public beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization software release for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris systems...

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Linux 6.16 GPU Driver Changes Land: NVIDIA Blackwell, Asahi UAPI, Intel Xe Fan Speeds

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 May

The hearty set of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel. Most notable is preliminary NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support atop the mainline kernel with an open-source driver but there are also big ticket items added for the AMD Radeon/Instinct and Intel graphics drivers too as well as the other smaller drivers...

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Git 2.50-rc0 Brings New Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 May

The initial release candidate of Git 2.50 is now available for this widely-used, distributed version control system...

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Big Linux Patch Series Shakes Up The Scheduler Code For Anyone With Only One CPU Core

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 May

For anyone still happening to have only one CPU core in their system and running a uni-processor "UP" kernel build without any simultaneous multi-processing (SMP) support enabled, a big patch series posted today for the Linux kernel may affect you...

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Mesa 25.0.7 Delivers A Last Batch Of Fixes To End The Series

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 May

Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.0.7 as the newest bi-weekly point release to the Mesa 25.0 series that is also the end of the road for that Q1'2025 release branch...