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      AI Made A Lot Of "Hideous" Code But Found Major Bottlenecks For Faster Linux Compilation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:49

    An ARM Linux engineer leveraged AI/LLMs to help uncover some improvements to "significant speed up" the Linux kernel build times. In the process the LLM used generated "a lot of code, much of it hideous" but in the end was used to find some very significant time savings for faster kernel builds via more task parallelization in different areas of the kernel build process...
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      systemd 262-rc2 Adds An AI Canary For Detecting Unreviewed AI/LLM Code Contributions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 hours ago

    One week after releasing systemd 262-rc1, systemd 262-rc2 is now available with further fixes and refinements for this init system and service manager. Systemd is also the latest open-source project introducing an AI canary for aiming to detect AI/LLM-based code contributors that weren't reviewed by an actual person in advance of the pull request...
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      DLSS5VKLayer Wires Up NVIDIA DLSS 5 For Native Linux Games & Steam Play

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    An interesting new open-source project for those looking to make use of NVIDIA DLSS 5 on Linux is DLSS5VKLayer. The DLSS5VKLayer is a Linux Vulkan layer that works for both native Linux games as well as Steam Play (Proton) Windows games for experimental DLSS 5 support...
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      KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Commit-Timing Protocol Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    Merged today to the latest KDE KWin compositor development code is support for Wayland's important commit-timing protocol that is useful for video playback as well as for gamers relying on Adaptive-Sync/FreeSync support...
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      The Linux Kernel Planning To Remove Around ~55k Lines Of Old ARM Platform Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    For the current Linux 7.3 kernel many older 32-bit ARM platforms are deprecated and in turn orphaning hundreds of drivers only relevant to those out-of-date ARM platforms. The removal of that now deprecated code is planned for the next kernel cycle or two...
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      DaVinci Resolve 21.1 Released - Now With AI Assistant Integration

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    For those using the Linux-friendly DaVinci Resolve video editing and color correction/grading and visual effects software, DaVinci Resolve 21.1 is out today as a major update to this cross-platform solution...
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      CHUWI UniBook With Intel Wildcat Lake For A $449 Linux-Friendly Laptop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    CHUWI recently launched the UniBook laptop powered by the Intel Core 3 304 "Wildcat Lake" SOC and priced at just $449 USD. Especially with today's high component pricing, a brand new sub-$500 laptop is extremely rare. Rather than using some dated SoC, it uses Wildcat Lake as Intel's new value option alternative to the Core 3 Series Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs. This was our first time testing out Intel Wildcat Lake and that SoC plus the overall CHUWI UniBook has been working out well on Linux for those looking at a laptop in the sub-$500 space.
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      New Patches Provide HDMI 1.4 3D Mode Support For AMD Radeon Graphics On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    It turns out one of the feature limitations of the AMDGPU Linux graphics driver is HDMI 1.4 3D output support with frame packing, top-and-bottom, and side-by-side options for transmitting simultaneous video streams. I wasn't aware of this limitation for the lack of any 3D displays and many Linux enthusiasts/gamers as well, but if you happen to have a compatible HDMI 1.4 3D display, there are pending patches to finally make this a reality...
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      Linux 7.4 To Support Realtek RTL8127atf & RTL8116af Networking

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Queued this past week into the net-next development tree of the latest networking additions for the Linux kernel is enabling support for Realtek's newer RTL8127atf and RTL8116af wired networking ASICs...