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Intel Xeon 6980P "Granite Rapids" Linux Performance One Year Later Next week marks one year since the launch of the Xeon 6900P series Granite Rapids server processors. Given the occasion and a new server in the lab, here is a look at how Intel's Granite Rapids top-end Xeon 6980P server processors are performing one year after the original introduction with a production-grade server platform as well as incorporating all of the Linux software improvements over the past year.
AMD ROCm 7.0 Officially Released With Many Significant Improvements Overnight the AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags began appearing within the public Git repositories. Now AMD ROCm 7.0 is officially released as a very significant step forward for AMD's open-source GPU compute stack for better competing against NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem...
Fedora 43 Beta ISOs Released For Testing This Leading-Edge Linux OS It's beta day for Fedora 43 and the release media is ready for testing!..
AMD ROCm 7.0 Begins Rocking Out On GitHub As a pleasant surprise waking up this morning is AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags beginning to appear on GitHub, indicating the likely imminent official release of the ROCm 7.0 compute stack as the open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct software stack aimed to be the open alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem...
Fedora Workstation 43 Beta Is Running Well On AMD Strix Halo / Framework Desktop Fedora 43 Beta is releasing today as we work toward the official release in either late October or early November. I have been testing out the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta candidate to great success on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" powered Framework Desktop. Here are some benchmarks of Fedora Workstation 42 compared to the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta.
Intel USBIO USB IO Expander Drivers Expected To Be Merged For Linux 6.18 Queued up in the past few days to the USB subsystem's "usb-next" Git branch are the Intel USBIO drivers for Linux 6.18. These drivers are needed to support the web cameras on various newer Intel laptop models...
Linux Patches Posted For Enabling The Tenstorrent Blackhole SoC Patches were posted this past weekend for enabling the mainline Linux kernel to run on the Tenstorrent Blackhole SoC of A0 silicon on the Blackhole P100 and P150 PCIe accelerator cards...
Godot 4.5 Open-Source Game Engine Released With A Multitude Of Improvements Godot 4.5 is out today as the latest update to this leading open-source and cross platform game engine...
AMD ABMC Expected To Go Upstream For Linux 6.18 After being in the works for the past two years and going through 18+ rounds of code review, AMD ABMC looks poised to be mainlined for the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel...
AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End The Alliance for Open Media announced today that they will be launching the next-generation AV2 video codec at the end of 2025...
AMD Officially Confirms The End Of The AMDVLK Driver To no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally announced publicly today that their open-source AMDVLK driver has been discontinued in favor of the Mesa RADV driver for Vulkan needs on Linux...
libxml2 Maintainer Stepping Down - "More Or Less Unmaintained For Now" The maintainer of the libxml2 project announced he is stepping down from this widely-used open-source library without any replacement maintainer yet determined...
The Performance Cost To Ubuntu WSL2 On Windows 11 25H2 It's been a while since delivering any benchmarks on Phoronix of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) for running Linux applications and other software under the confines of Windows 11. When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Linux benchmarks I also took the opportunity for seeing how WSL is performing on that leading-edge Windows release compared to running a bare metal Ubuntu Linux installation.
Canonical Announces Plans To Support NVIDIA CUDA, Easy Installation On Ubuntu Canonical announced today that they will formally support the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit and also make it available via the Ubuntu repositories...
Casilda 1.0 Released As Wayland Compositor Widget For GTK4 Casilda 1.0 is out today as the Wayland compositor widget for the GTK4 toolkit...