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Fedora Developers Discuss An Idea For Using U-Boot On x86 BIOS Systems
Fedora Developers Discuss An Idea For Using U-Boot On x86 BIOS Systems
9 Hours Ago - Fedora - Fedora + U-Boot + x86 BIOS Platforms - 11 Comments

Last year Fedora and Red Hat developers began discussing the idea of dropping legacy BIOS support and to then only focus on UEFI platforms. There was a plan to deprecate BIOS support in Fedora 37 but ultimately it didn't go through due to some cloud providers still booting VMs in BIOS mode and some systems having broken UEFI implementations. An idea has now been raised over the possibility of using U-Boot on x86 BIOS systems to provide a UEFI-like experience from the Fedora perspective.

22 May

Intel Provides AI-Accelerated HPC Update For ISC 2023
Intel Provides AI-Accelerated HPC Update For ISC 2023
22 May 12:45 PM EDT - Processors - 5 Comments

Intel is using ISC2023 this week in Hamburg, Germany to provide an update on its AI-accelerated HPC efforts. This includes reaffirming their upcoming data center product roadmap, reiterating their great software efforts, and also announcing full Aurora supercomputer specifications.

21 May

Arch Linux Completes Its Git Migration
Arch Linux Completes Its Git Migration
21 May 08:42 AM EDT - Arch Linux - Arch Linux - 17 Comments

Arch Linux on Friday began its Git repository migration and as part of that discontinuing SVN access and some changes to how their package repositories are setup. Arch Linux's Git migration has now been successfully completed.

Linux Adding Leakshield Driver Support For Reporting Liquid Cooling System Leaks
Linux Adding Leakshield Driver Support For Reporting Liquid Cooling System Leaks
21 May 05:51 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Aquacomputer Leakshield - 14 Comments

There is pending patches for adding support for the LEAKSHIELD device to the Aquacomputer Linux device driver. German PC component manufacturer Aquacomputer has been enjoying support for their various products on Linux and the latest seeing support in this open-source driver is the Aquacomputer Leakshield for reporting any water cooling leaks and other performance metrics around your cooling setup.

20 May

Microsoft Preparing For Their First Vulkan Extension
Microsoft Preparing For Their First Vulkan Extension
20 May 05:55 AM EDT - Microsoft - MSFT Vulkan Extension - 16 Comments

While the Vulkan high performance graphics and compute API is backed by many vendors, Microsoft and Apple are two notable organizations that haven't backed this Khronos Group standard. For Microsoft's part, they obviously prefer their in-house Direct3D. However, Microsoft is making preparations for submitting their first Vulkan extension.

AMD Has A One-Liner To Help Speed Up Linux System Resume Time
AMD Has A One-Liner To Help Speed Up Linux System Resume Time
20 May 05:43 AM EDT - AMD - Easy Win - 4 Comments

AMD engineers have been working out many quirks and oddities in system suspend/resume handling to make it more reliable on their hardware particularly around Ryzen laptops. In addition to suspend/resume reliability improvements and suspend-to-idle (s2idle) enhancements, one of their engineers also discovered an easy one-liner as a small step to speeding up system resume time.

19 May

CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust
19 May 10:50 AM EDT - WINE - CodeWeavers - 48 Comments

CodeWeavers, the company known for its CrossOver software for running Windows games/apps on Linux / macOS / Chrome OS and in turn being the main corporate backer to the Wine project, is now transitioned to being an employee ownership trust. This comes with Jeremy White deciding to leave the company after 27 years.

NVIDIA R530 vs. AMD Linux 6.3 + Mesa 23.2-dev Gaming Performance
19 May 10:25 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - 36 Comments

Due to the constantly evolving state of the open-source Linux graphics drivers in particular, here is a fresh look at an assortment of AMD Radeon GPUs making use of the Mesa 23.2 development code for the newest RadeonSI and RADV drivers paired with the recently released Linux 6.3 kernel. These open-source Radeon Linux gaming benchmark results are going up against various NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30/40 series graphics cards using the NVIDIA 530.41.09 release as its latest Linux driver.

18 May

Bug Bounty Programs May Sound Great, But Aren't Always Handled Well
18 May 06:04 PM EDT - Free Software - Google + Intel Bug Bounty Experience - 13 Comments

Bug bounty programs setup by large corporations to reward and recognize security researchers for properly reporting new bugs and security vulnerabilities is a great concept, but in practice isn't always handled well. Security researcher Adam Zabrocki recently shared the troubles he encountered in the bug bounty handling at Google for Chrome OS and in turn for Intel with it having been an i915 Linux kernel graphics driver vulnerability.

The Progress With KDE Plasma 6's KWin HDR Support
18 May 06:25 AM EDT - KDE - KDE + HDR - 64 Comments

Following last month's Red Hat hosted HDR hackfest that brought together many Linux desktop stakeholders from GPU driver developers to desktop environment developers, KDE developer Xaver Hugl has shared an update on the progress being made for high dynamic range (HDR) display support from the KWin side.

New Maintainer Steps Up For GCC Compiler's MIPS CPU Port
18 May 06:11 AM EDT - GNU - GCC MIPS - 2 Comments

With development of the MIPS architecture having officially ended two years ago in favor of focusing on RISC-V for future CPU designs and the overall decline of that CPU architecture, it's been years since the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has seen its MIPS code well maintained. However, now a capable developer has stepped up willing to serve as the GCC maintainer for MIPS.

AlmaLinux 8.8 Released For Those Relying On RHEL8
18 May 05:54 AM EDT - Operating Systems - AlmaLinux 8.8 - Add A Comment

Earlier this month Red Hat released RHEL 9.2 and at the same time they also released RHEL 8.8 for those continuing to rely on the stable RHEL8 series. AlmaLinux managed to provide a same-day release of AlmaLinux 9.2 while now one week later they have also shipped AlmaLinux 8.8.

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