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Red Hat Announces RHEL AI

Phoronix - Tue, 05/07/2024 - 22:30
Red Hat Summit 2024 is underway in Denver, Colorado... Given the times, artificial intelligence (AI) is taking a heavy presence at the event with Red Hat announcing today RHEL AI...

Raspberry Pi Connect Reaches Beta For Remote Raspberry Pi Access

Phoronix - Tue, 05/07/2024 - 21:58
The Raspberry Pi Foundation today announced the beta availability of Raspberry Pi Connect as a means of securely having remote GUI access to your Remote Pi from a web browser...

Vulkan 1.3.284 Released With Another Extension To Help Zink

Phoronix - Tue, 05/07/2024 - 20:44
Vulkan 1.3.284 was published on Monday with only a few changes but bearing one notable new extension...

AMD Posts Patches For Improving Heterogeneous Core Type CPUs On Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 05/07/2024 - 20:23
AMD engineers posted a new set of Linux driver patches on Tuesday that "addresses critical issues and enhances performance settings for CPUs with heterogeneous core types" while using the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...

Fedora 41 Approved To Make Package Builds More Reproducible

Phoronix - Tue, 05/07/2024 - 18:48
In addition to approving -O3 optimized Python builds, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESC)) this week unanimously approved a Fedora 41 change proposal for making RPM package builds more reproducible...

Linux 6.10 Goes Ahead In Removing Sysctl Sentinel Bloat

Phoronix - Tue, 05/07/2024 - 18:32
Over the past year there's been much work happening within the Linux kernel's sysctl code for clearing up ~64 bytes of bloat per array throughout the kernel by dropping the last sysctl "sentinel" entry at the end of each array. This also helps in reducing the build time of the kernel and is a nice improvement. With Linux 6.10, the sysctl sentinel clearing throughout different subsystems is set to happen...

AMD Core Performance Boost For Linux Getting Per-CPU Core Controls

Phoronix - Tue, 05/07/2024 - 18:19
For the past several months AMD Linux engineers have been working on AMD Core Performance Boost support for their P-State CPU frequency scaling driver. The ninth iteration of these patches were posted on Monday and besides the global enabling/disabling support for Core Performance Boost, it's now possible to selectively toggle the feature on a per-CPU core basis...

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