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      Initial Patches Posted For Booting The Apple M4 On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:22

    With the Linux 7.2 kernel there is initial support for booting the Apple M3 SoC on Linux but it's not yet functional for end users with just booting to a simple console. There are now Device Tree files posted for booting the Apple M4 on Linux but also not yet useful for any typical Apple Mac/MacBook usage on Linux...
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      AMD Ryzen AI Halo Box RGB LED Driver Inches Closer To The Mainline Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:13

    The AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC powered by Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" began shipping this week. It features very nice Linux support out-of-the-box with the Debian-based Ryzen AI Developer Platform operating system. For those wishing to run their own x86_64 Linux distribution, one of the only caveats in the Linux support is quite small... No mainline kernel support yet for controlled the RGB LED light strip on the driver. But that driver is coming and will hopefully be mainlined soon...
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      Zlib-rs 0.6.6 Released With Updated Zlib API Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:00

    Zlib-rs 0.6.6 was just released by the Trifecta Tech Foundation. Just weeks after the prior release with a fix for Intel Raptor Lake and bringing new SIMD optimizations, zlib-rs 0.6.6 is about delivering updated Zlib API compatibility...
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      Redox OS Gets GTK3 Backend For Orbital Desktop, Fractional Scaling & USB Gamepads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS platform had a very eventful June with many new features implemented and more software ported over to run on this from-scratch operating system...
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      LibreOffice 26.8 Beta Released For Improving This Free Software Office Suite

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    The Document Foundation today announced the first beta release of the LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite set for its stable debut in August...
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      OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMandriva GitHub repository was deleted and there was an empty package push made to OpenMandriva's Cooker repository in trying to obsolete all GNOME and COSMIC packages...
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      Single vs. Dual Channel Memory Performance With The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Given today's pricing environment around system memory, a Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested some benchmarks to quantify the performance difference from single to dual channel memory. In considering a new computer build, he is contemplating whether to go for a single stick of DDR5 memory until memory prices hopefully subside in the future. For those in a similar boat, here are some benchmarks of single versus dual channel memory on an Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus "Arrow Lake" desktop.
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      Intel Sunsets Quantum Intrinsics & Other Open-Source Projects This Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    Intel has formally archived some more of their now-unmaintained open-source projects this week...
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      AMD ZenDNN 6.0 Brings Many Improvements For Accelerating Inference On Ryzen/EPYC CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    AMD ZenDNN 6.0 released today as a significant update to this open-source deep neural network library for helping to accelerate inferencing on AMD Zen processors from Ryzen to EPYC...