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      Fedora Council Seeks To Shutdown Current Discussions Over AI Developer Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:40

    Stemming from the widely varying views over the recent Fedora proposal for an "AI Developer Desktop" catering to running local AI and machine learning workloads in pre-configured environments with a seamless hardware-accelerated experience, the Fedora Council issued a statement this evening to effectively shutdown discussions for now over a Fedora AI Developer Desktop and to pause the Fedora Community Initiatives process...
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      Steam On Linux Usage Receded A Bit In June

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:23

    Back in March Steam on Linux use shot up to 5.33% as a big 3.1% improvement over February. In April it dropped to 4.52% and then fell to 3.99% in May. Valve just published the Steam Survey numbers for June and it points to another minor setback from the recent all-time high of Steam on Linux...
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      KDE Linux Introduces "Developer Mode" Option, Easier Log Collection

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 hours ago

    With the start of the new month comes a new progress report on the KDE Linux distribution for the prior month. Even with KDE developers being busy to ship Plasma 6.7 in June, they still accomplished a lot when it comes to KDE Linux...
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      System76 Launches New Lemur Pro Laptop Powered By Intel Panther Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    System76 today announced their new Lemur Pro high-end Linux laptop that is now powered by the Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs...
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      Linux 7.3 To Overcome "Significant Bottleneck" For Small I/O With PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    While the Linux 7.2 feature merge window ended just days ago and the better part of two months now before v7.2 will be released as stable, there are already features beginning to accumulate that will target the Linux 7.3 cycle. The most exciting change I've seen to kick off that dance ahead of Linux 7.3 is addressing a "significant" bottleneck affecting small direct I/O performance with speedy storage such as PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs...
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      AMD Sends Out Latest Linux Patches For RMPOPT Optimization

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Earlier this year AMD disclosed the RMPOPT instruction that given the timing will seemingly be introduced with upcoming Zen 6 EPYC "Venice" processors. The RMPOPT feature amounts to a performance optimization for AMD EPYC SEV-SNP enabled servers by cutting down on the associated Reverse Map Table (RMP) overhead. Linux enablement of AMD RMPOPT remains ongoing and out this week is the latest iteration of the enablement...
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      Glibc Introduces /etc/tunables.conf For System-Wide Tunables

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Red Hat has contributed new system-wide tunables infrastructure to the GNU C Library "glibc" that allows specifying system-wide tunables via the new /etc/tunables.conf configuration file...
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      RADV & RadeonSI Drivers See New Fixes For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues taking special focus on AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era GPUs for enhancing the open-source graphics driver support for these aging graphics cards...
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      GCC 16.2 Being Planned For Early August Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    For those that prefer waiting until the first bug-fix/point release before upgrading to a major new feature series, GCC 16.2 is being planned for an early August release for delivering back-ported bug fixes to the GCC 16 compiler...