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      System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 7 Desktop - Last Step Before Beta

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 April

    Following the COSMIC Alpha 6 release from February, System76 today released COSMIC Alpha 7 as their last planned alpha release for this open-source, Rust-written desktop environment designed around the needs of their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
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      Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Can Work Well As A Solid Linux Laptop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 April

    The Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Strix Point is now shipping that as detailed in our review earlier this month can provide for a very capable Linux laptop for Linux developers, creators, and enthusiasts. But for those hesitant about the high price and still weeks away before they have shipped all their pre-orders, if you are principally concerned about battery life, and/or after proven build quality backed by on-site warranty and other warranty/support options, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition ends up being a solid option for a very reliable and well-engineered laptop for Linux use. Here is a look at the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition on Linux that is powered by Intel Lunar Lake.
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      SCALE 1.3 Adds BFloat16 & Other New Features For Compiling CUDA Apps On AMD GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 April

    A new software project covered on Phoronix last year was SCALE for natively compiling CUDA applications for AMD GPUs. This "clean room" implementation of CUDA building off the open-source LLVM codebase continues going strong and out this week is SCALE 1.3 with more features and hardware support for compiling CUDA software for AMD GPU execution...
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      Linux 6.15 Fixes A Performance Issue For Extremely Heavy Read-Only Workloads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 April

    Completely separate from the big performance regression I noted earlier this week for the Linux 6.15 Git kernel and fixed yesterday in the upstream codebase, another significant performance issue was also uncovered and fixed this week in Linux 6.15 Git...
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      New Patches Get Linux Booting On The Snapdragon X1-Powered Dell Inspiron 14 Plus

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 April

    New Linux kernel patches have been posted adding the necessary Device Tree files so that Linux is able to boot on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered Dell Inspiron 14 Plus laptop...
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      Mesa Falling Back To Its Multi-File Cache Due To Performance Reasons

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 April

    Mesa has supported on-disk shader cache for years to help speed-up game load times and overall system efficiencies. They had shifted from a multi-file cache layout to a single file cache for greater space savings. Steam also added support for the single-file cache. But now upstream Mesa is shifting back from the single-file cache default to the multi-file cache over performance issues...
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      Raspberry Pi HEVC Decoder Linux Driver Updated For Mainline Kernel Attempt

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 April

    At the end of last year the upstreaming efforts began for a Raspberry Pi HEVC decoder driver for getting H.265/HEVC accelerated decode working on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers with the mainline kernel. Nearly a half-year later that effort is still ongoing but yesterday brought the third iteration of this driver...
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      AMD Publishes Open-Source GIM Driver For GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In The Roadmap"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 April

    AMD has published as open-source their "GPU-IOV Module" used for virtualization with Instinct accelerators. It's also reported on their roadmap for bringing virtualization support to their client (Radeon) discrete GPUs...
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      OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Brings KDE Plasma 6 By Default, Official Server Edition

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 April

    OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Rock is now available with the KDE Plasma 6 desktop shipping by default while still offering both Wayland and X11 session options. There is also now an official server edition of OpenMandriva...
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