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OSU Open Source Lab At Risk Of Closure This Year Due To Lack Of Funding

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 May

For those that have spent any length of time in the open-source world have likely come across osuosl.org when downloading open-source projects that often are mirrored at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL). The OSU OSL over the past two decades has also provided VMs for various architectures from x86 and AArch64 to POWER for CI and testing purposes to open-source projects, among many other support roles. Unfortunately, the OSU OSL risks closure this year...

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DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 May

For fans of the DragonFlyBSD operating system, DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 has been released after two and a half years to ship various bug fixes for this popular BSD...

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Mesa 25.1-rc3 & Mesa 25.0.5 Deliver More Graphics Driver Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April

Eric Engestrom with Igalia continues doing a superb job managing the Mesa releases with today bringing the timely Mesa 25.1-rc3 release candidate as well as the new Mesa 25.0.5 stable point release...

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Intel Makes "AI Flame Graphs" Open-Source

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April

Intel's AI Flame Graphs software is now open-source. This is a project that started for Intel's Tiber AI Cloud to provide more insight into AI accelerator/GPU usage and hardware profilining of the full software stack. After being an internal/customer-only software project for some months, AI Flame Graphs is now open-source...

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Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Memory Pool Support For Some Massive Performance Gains

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April

Merged a few minutes ago to the Mesa 25.2-devel graphics driver code for the open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver is proper memory pool support. In turn this can deliver some magnificent performance improvements on the likes of Lunar Lake and other newer Intel graphics processors...

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openSUSE Leap 16 Available For Beta Testing - Built From SUSE Linux Enterprise 16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April

OpenSUSE announced the beta release today of openSUSE Leap 16.0, their next-generation Linux distribution from from SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 (SLE 16) and its new base of SUSE Linux Framework One that was previously known as the Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP)...

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LibreSSL 4.1 Released With Faster SHA-1/SHA-256/SHA-512 On Modern AMD & Intel CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April

LibreSSL 4.1 released today as the newest version of this SSL/TLS library project forked a decade ago by OpenBSD from OpenSSL...

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Bytedance Proposes Faster Linux Inter-Process Communication With "Run Process As Library"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April

Bytedance engineers are exploring faster inter-process communication (IPC) on Linux via a new approach they call Run Process As Library (RPAL). Their initial benchmarks of RPAL are very promising for faster Linux IPC performance...

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NVIDIA Posts 60 Patches For Open-Source Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support On Nouveau

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April

Ben Skeggs formerly of Red Hat who had been the maintainer of the Nouveau Linux kernel driver for reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA driver support had joined NVIDIA last year and continued his engagements with the open-source Linux community. For ending out April there's a big surprise... The NVIDIA engineer posted a set of 60 patches enabling support for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs atop the open-source Nouveau kernel driver...