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      NVIDIA-Started Open Secure AI Alliance Moves To The Linux Foundation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:42

    Earlier this year NVIDIA led an effort with more than two dozen other companies to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance with a focus on keeping open-source AI models secure. The Open Secure AI Alliance today is transitioning from being stewarded by NVIDIA to becoming a Linux Foundation project...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Dwell Clicker Support To Improve Accessibility On Wayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:51

    In preparations for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in abandoning the X11 session, another feature gap compared to X11 has been addressed...
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      Mesa 26.2.2 Enables Intel Nova Lake Graphics By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:05

    Mesa 26.2.2 is out today as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...
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      Early Benchmarks Of AMD EPYC On Linux 7.3 Show Some Performance Gains On The Horizon

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:53

    With Linux 7.3-rc1 out this week and marking the end of the merge window, it's onto a lot of Linux 7.3 performance testing at Phoronix and looking at all the new features of Linux 7.3. In today's article is a first look at the AMD EPYC Turin server performance on Linux 7.3-rc1 compared to Linux 7.2 stable with a few nice performance improvements to show.
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      CERN Transitioning To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:17

    CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, besides being well known for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is known among longtime Linux users as a RHEL/CentOS shop. CERN formally even co-maintained the Scientific Linux RHEL derivative with other educational/research institutions in the past. So to much surprise now, CERN is transitioning to Debian Linux...
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      AVX-512 xor_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:20

    Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux's software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware...
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      GNOME Mutter 51.rc Adds Cross-GPU Buffer Scan-Out Support, Other Last Minute Work

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:02

    The release candidates are out today for the GNOME Shell and Mutter in preparing for the formal "GNOME 51.rc" release in the coming days...
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      Greg KH Forewarns Of "Rough" Linux 7.3 Kernel Cycle Due To Continued AI Churn

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:39

    While Linux 7.3-rc1 only released this week and there are another roughly seven weeks to go until the official kernel release, Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is already warning that it's likely to be another "rough" kernel cycle given the ongoing noise caused by AI/LLM with the increase in bug reports and kernel patches...
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      GCC 17 Compiler Merges Initial Support For Intel/AMD AI Compute Extensions "ACE"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:22

    Landing today in the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) codebase is initial support for the AI Compute Extensions (ACEv1) as the initial work out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group between Intel and AMD for a common matrix acceleration architecture for helping AI/ML workloads with future CPUs...