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      Linux Patches Updated For Snapdragon X Elite Powered TUXEDO Elite 14 Gen1 Laptop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 16:33

    In mid-2024, Bavarian PC vendor TUXEDO Computers began teasing a Snapdragon X Elite powered Linux laptop with hopes of having it available by Christmas 2024. As we approach Christmas 2025, there still are no immediate signs of this new ARM-based TUXEDO laptop soon shipping but there are signs of life still with new Linux kernel patches posted for enabling this Snapdragon X Elite laptop...
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      Fwupd 2.0.17 Released With More Hardware Support & Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 16:23

    Days after the Linux Vendor Firmware Service celebrated 135 million firmware downloads, a new version of the Fwupd utility is now available for firmware updating systems and peripherals under Linux...
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      Linux 6.19 To Support Additional Arm Mali & Vivante Graphics Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 14:24

    Sent out today to DRM-Next was the latest weekly batch of drm-misc-next patches for enhancing the various smaller Direct Rendering Manager drivers within the kernel. Included with this week's update is supporting some additional Mali and Vivante hardware as well as continuing to enhance the in-kernel accelerator "accel" drivers...
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      GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 13:15

    The merge to GNOME Mutter has finally happened that "completely drops" the X11 back-end to make GNOME strictly focused on Wayland-based environments...
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      LXQt 2.3 Released With Improved Wayland Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 13:08

    LXQt 2.3 is out today as the newest release of this lightwight, Qt-based desktop environment...
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      3mdeb Achieves Good Progress Porting Coreboot+OpenSIL To AMD Turin Motherboard

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 11:04

    Over the past few months the open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb has been porting Coreboot and AMD's new openSIL silicon initialization library to the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1. The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 is a broadly available motherboard that supports the latest-generation AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" server processors. 3mdeb has been fairly successful in their quest and an early demonstrator for openSIL...
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      systemd-appd Is A New Component Being Planned By Flatpak Developers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 10:50

    Given this week's release of Flatpak 1.17 for app sandboxing, open-source developer Sebastian Wick published a blog post on Tuesday around the latest Flatpak developments and a look ahead at some of the feature development planned. Arguably most significant of that is the plans for systemd-appd...
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      AMD Contributes BFloat16 Support To LLVM's SPIR-V Target

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 01:32

    AMD software engineers continue making interesting contributions to the LLVM compiler stack around SPIR-V as the IR used by Vulkan and other Khronos APIs...
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      Benchmarking The AMD EPYC 9V64H: Azure HBv5's Custom AMD CPU With HBM3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 November

    Nearly one year ago Microsoft announced the HBv5 virtual machines powered by a custom-designed AMD 4th Gen EPYC processor with high bandwidth memory (HBM3). Finally today the Azure HBv5 series is reaching general availability for those with memory-intensive HPC applications and other workloads. Microsoft kindly provided Phoronix with HBv5 access in advance to begin testing these new VMs with the AMD EPYC 9V64H CPUs featuring HBM memory, so here are some of the first independent benchmarks of these exciting processors powering Azure's new HPC VM instances.