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      Linux 7.3-rc2 Scheduler Fix For Cache Aware Load Scheduling Misfits On Hybrid CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:32

    Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel being released later today, a set of scheduler fixes have been sent out for this week's kernel test release. Most notable with the scheduler fixes are dealing with possible misfits for Cache-Aware Load Scheduling on hybrid CPUs like Intel Core (Ultra) processors...
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      Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs - With Caveats

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:53

    Asahi Linux developers announced today that they are now officially supporting the Linux distribution on Apple M3 powered Macs. With the exception of the Mac Studio M3 Ultra, other M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max devices should now work with the latest Asahi Linux builds but with some feature caveats...
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      LLVM Developers Discuss Enabling ClangIR Build By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:43

    ClangIR has been in development for a number of years now as a new intermediate representation for the Clang compiler. ClangIR makes use of MLIR and is higher-level than LLVM IR. With ClangIR able to preserve more C/C++ source semantics, its usage can lead to better diagnostics, code/static analysis, and more performance optimizations compared to everything lowered straight away from AST to LLVM IR. While not enabling its usage by default, LLVM stakeholders are discussing at least now building it by default...
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      Linux 7.3-rc2 Transitions More kmalloc Calls To The Superior kmalloc_obj

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:28

    Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel release due out later today, a merge causing a lot of code churn was pulled in by Linus Torvalds. This tree-wide effort converts more of the kmalloc() function calls over to the newer and superior kmalloc_obj() family of functions...
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      Slackware 16 Alpha 1 Available Following GCC 16.2, Glibc 2.44 & Binutils 2.47 Upgrade

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:16

    The timing on Saturday's Slackware-based Zenwalk ISO "current milestone" update is now more clear with upstream Slackware having prepared what is its first alpha release of the upcoming Slackware 16...
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      Slackware-Based Zenwalk ISOs Updated With Linux 7.1, Flatpak Integrated + Xfce 4.20

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    It's been over four years since the original release of Zenwalk 15.0 while released today is a new Zenwalk Current Milestone snapshot. This Slackware-based Linux distribution with a long history has an exciting update out for testing this weekend...
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      Ikey Doherty Plans To Show How To "Properly" Build A Modern Linux Distro

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Ikey Doherty is back in the Linux distribution space. Sort of. Ikey Doherty who was the founder of the Solus Linux distribution as well as Serpent OS (now AerynOS) as well as having been employed by Intel on their Clear Linux team is back at it again in the Linux space...
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      NVIDIA Posts vGPU Manager & VFIO Variant Driver For Open-Source Nova

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    NVIDIA continues building out more functionality around the open-source, upstream Nova kernel graphics driver within the Linux kernel. Making it out to the mailing list this Saturday is a set of 13 patches for introducing a NVIDIA vGPU manager and VFIO variant driver...
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      Nouveau Lands Display Fixes For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs As It Works Toward HDMI 2.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    This week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes that were merged ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc2 release contain a number of fixes to the open-source Nouveau driver's display support for current-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs...