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SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Price Lowered, Ubuntu 24.04 Support Ready

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 December, 2024

Going back to April 2024, SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 as an interesting RISC-V developer board to succeed their HiFive Unleashed that was a nice little RISC-V board. There were delays in shipping the HiFive Premier P550 but they have been making progress and are now ready to ship Ubuntu 24.04 LTS pre-installed on this RISC-V board. They have also lowered the pricing on these RISC-V boards...

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OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 Released With KDE Plasma 6 Desktop By Default

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 December, 2024

For fans of OpenMandriva or just wanting to reminisce over the former Mandrake Linux days, OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 is out today as the newest update to this Linux distribution...

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AlmaLinux 10 Beta Released For Testing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 December, 2024

It was just a little more than one month ago that AlmaLinux Kitten 10 became available for testing for this new OS release derived from the CentOS Stream 10 sources that is upstream to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Today the AlmaLinux crew announced the first beta release of AlmaLinux 10...

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Miracle-WM 0.4 Released With i3 IPC Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 December, 2024

Miracle-WM is the Mir-based Wayland tiling window manager that is inspired in part by the likes of i3 and Sway. Miracle-WM also has a goal to be a flagship example of a Mir-based full featured window manager with this project being led by a Canonical engineer. Out today is Miracle-WM 0.4 to deliver the latest features...

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How AMD Is Taking Standard C/C++ Code To Run Directly On GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 December, 2024

Back at the 2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting was an interesting presentation by AMD engineer Joseph Huber for how they have been exploring running common, standard C/C++ code directly on GPUs without having to be adapted for any GPU language / programming dialects or other adaptations...

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QEMU 9.2 Released With VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support, AVX10 & Experimental Rust Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 December, 2024

QEMU 9.2 is out today for this processor emulator that plays an important role within the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

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Haiku OS Developers Fixed Plenty Of Bugs In November

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 December, 2024

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project is out with a new monthly status update to detail their latest efforts...

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Intel Compute Runtime 24.45 vs. AMD ROCm 6.3 vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 December, 2024

Complementing yesterday's fresh Linux gaming benchmarks of mid-range Intel Arc Graphics "Alchemist" vs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 vs. AMD Radeon RX 7000 series cards ahead of the upcoming Battlemage availability, today's article is providing a fresh look at the latest Intel Compute Runtime performance for Level Zero / OpenCL on current-gen Intel discrete graphics compared to mid-range AMD Radeon GPUs on ROCm 6.3 and similar NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Ada graphics cards on the R565 driver.

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systemd 257 Debuts With systemd-keyutil & systemd-sbsign Tools, Other Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 December, 2024

Coincidentally coming one day after the GNU Shepherd 1.0 service manager release, the systemd 257 release is now shipping as the newest feature release for this widely-used service manager / init system to Linux systems. Systemd 257 brings a number of new features and improvements for powering late 2024 and early 2025 Linux distributions...