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Intel Preps PXP GuC Auto-Teardown & Improvements For Old iGPUs With Linux 6.13

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 October, 2024

Intel engineers this morning sent out their newest pull request of "drm-intel-gt-next" material to queue in DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window. There is a new feature enabled on newer Intel graphics hardware as well as some improvements for very old Intel integrated graphics...

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Linux 6.13 To Default To AMD P-State Driver For EPYC 9005 CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 October, 2024

It was just earlier this week that AMD posted Linux patches to switch EPYC over to using the AMD P-State driver rather than the long-used generic ACPI CPUFreq driver. This should lead to better power efficiency out-of-the-box and is a change being made just for EPYC 9005 "Turin" CPUs and future server processors. Already it's looking like this change will be introduced for the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window...

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Cloudflare Continues To Praise Open-Source OpenBMC

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 October, 2024

It was just one and a half years ago that Cloudflare began rolling out OpenBMC on their massive array of servers to replace traditional proprietary Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware stacks. Since the end of last year they've been talking up their successes using OpenBMC and now as we approach two years of their OpenBMC use within production, they continue singing the praise of this open-source, Linux-based BMC software stack...

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Intel Upstreams Firmware For Newer WiFi Chipsets On Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 October, 2024

Intel has upstreamed the firmware for their "BlazarU" core to linux-firmware.git for improving the out-of-the-box wireless experience with newer Intel WiFi adapters...

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The Free Software Foundation Finally Has AI / Machine Learning Apps On Their Radar

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 October, 2024

The Free Software Foundation announced on Tuesday they have begun work on "freedom in machine learning applications". Or in particular, a to-be-issued "statement" on free machine learning applications for software and the associated scripts and training data...

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Rust-Written Rustls Now Reportedly Outperforming OpenSSL & BoringSSL

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 October, 2024

Rustls was initially talked up as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees. But now besides the talked up advantages due to being written in Rust, it has reached the point of reportedly being faster than both OpenSSL and BoringSSL...

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Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 October, 2024

Quietly merged into this week's Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers...

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AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Now Available For Testing, Derived From CentOS Stream 10

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 October, 2024

AlmaLinux Kitten 10 has been introduced today as what will be the next iteration of this community-based, RHEL/CentOS-derived enterprise-grade Linux distribution. AlmaLinux Kitten 10 is tracking the CentOS Stream 10 sources for what will eventually become the base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10...

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System76 Thelio Astra Reviewed: High-End ARM64 Developer Desktop

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 October, 2024

System76 is announcing one of their most innovative and interesting products going back to their Launch Configurable Keyboard and HP Dev One collaboration: the System76 Thelio Astra. The Thelio Astra is a high-end ARM64 desktop system geared for developers with a focus on AI / STEM / self-driving technologies and powered by Ampere Computing and NVIDIA.