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Linux 6.14 Released With Working NTSYNC Driver, AMD Ryzen AI Accelerator Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March

There was a hiccup yesterday with no Linux 6.14 release or 6.14-rc8 otherwise... Linus Torvalds has a very good track record of sticking to his Sunday release regiment. Yet yesterday was quiet. Today though Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.14 kernel as the newest stable version. Linux 6.14 is what's set to go on and power Ubuntu 25.04, Fedora 42, and other spring 2025 Linux distribution releases...

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Intel's AVX10.2 Patches Merged For GCC 15 To Drop 256-bit Rounding & AVX10.2-256 Options

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March

What a week. Last week Intel published a new AVX10 whitepaper where they dropped the optional 512-bit support of AVX10.2 and confirmed future P and E cores will have AVX10.2-512 support unconditionally. A very welcome change by Intel albeit late in rushing to get patches out to change that behavior ahead of the GCC 15 stable compiler release as well as working similar changes into the LLVM Clang compiler. As of today those GNU Compiler Collection patches have been merged to prepare for AVX10.2 always having 512-bit support available...

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Faster Intel/AMD Crypto Performance & Initial Intel APX Enablement Slated For Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March

Among the early pull requests submitted in advance of the Linux 6.14 stable release and in turn the Linux 6.15 merge window opening were the x86 FPU updates. Notable this round are faster x86/x86_64 encryption/decryption performance for both Intel and AMD processors as well as beginning to land the kernel-side changes needed to support Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)...

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Wayland Protocols 1.42 Updates Cursor Shape & Tablet Protocols

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March

With the FreeDesktop.org GitLab infrastructure getting back up, Wayland Protocols 1.42 was released today as the newest version of this official set of protocols for Wayland compositors...

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Linux 6.15 CRC Code Should See Big Speed-Ups For Intel/AMD AVX-512 CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March

While we are still awaiting the Linux 6.14 release (or a 6.14-rc8 release) with no kernel drop having occurred on Sunday, early pull requests for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle continue flowing in. Among the early pull requests over the weekend were the CRC code updates that include some nice optimizations for those running on AVX-512 processors...

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Libinput 1.28 Released With Three-Finger Drag

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March

Libinput 1.28 debuted today by Red Hat's input expert Peter Hutterer. With this updated input handling library used by both Wayland and X.Org Server environments there is now support for three-finger drag on touchpads...

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Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector Launches For $25 USD

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March

Raspberry Pi's brisk pace of new hardware and software the past few months continues today... The Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector was announced today at the $25 USD price point...

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EROFS Being Extended To Handle Massive Amounts Of Data For AI Model Training

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 March

The EROFS open-source, read-only Linux file-system is set to be extended with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle to support massive amounts of data to support AI model training...

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Hyprland 0.48 Adds A "Application Not Responding" Dialog, Better Color Management

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 March

Just days after marking the third birthday of the open-source project, Hyprland 0.48 released today as the newest version of this popular Wayland compositor...