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OpenVINO 2023.1 Released - More GenAI, Expanded LLM Support & Meteor Lake VPU

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 September, 2023

Intel's OpenVINO 2023.1 was just published to GitHub as the newest version of this open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI workloads across their CPUs, GPUs, and now also having official support for the new VPU being found with Meteor Lake SoCs...

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Linux 6.6-rc2 Released - 32 Years Since Linux 0.01 Released

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 September, 2023

Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.6-rc2 today and it also happens to be 32 years to the day since he introduced the Linux 0.01 kernel version...

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Go Ad-Free & Single Page Articles With The Phoronix 2023 Oktoberfest Sale

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 September, 2023

While there is (sadly) once again no Phoronix pilgrimage/meet-up at Oktoberfest this year, there is the annual Phoronix Premium sale special for those wishing to support the site at a discounted rate to enjoy ad-free viewing, multi-page articles on a single page, native dark mode, and other benefits...

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Linux 6.7 To Add POWER-Z Driver For Exposing USB Power Measurements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 September, 2023

For those curious about the power consumption of USB-C devices, there are some nifty devices out there that have a LED display and can report the voltage, Amps, Wattage, and USB power delivery protocol version of connected devices. It's a neat display but with a new POWER-Z driver coming to the Linux kernel it's possible to propagate that information from the system itself with this new driver...

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Linux's SLUB Allocator Preparing To Better Fend Off Cross-Cache Attacks

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 September, 2023

Following SLOB's removal and SLAB being deprecated and set for removal, the Linux kernel is all-in on the SLUB allocator. A new patch series posted on Friday is aiming to help prevent the possibility of cross-cache attacks with the SLUB memory allocator in the kernel...

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Wine-Staging 8.16 Fixes A 16 Year Old Bug For Games Crashing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 September, 2023

Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.16 is now Wine-Staging 8.16 for this experimental blend of Wine that offers up nearly 500 additional testing/in-development patches...

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AMD Linux Gaming Performance Largely Unchanged With Linux 6.6 Git

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 September, 2023

With the AMD performance uplift on the Linux 6.6 kernel due to the EEVDF scheduler code, the workqueue enhancements for chiplet-based processor designs, and other improvements, many Phoronix readers have speculated over AMD Linux gaming performance improvements with this in-development kernel...

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LWJGL 3.3.3 Released With Updated Bindings, GraalVM Native Image Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 September, 2023

Version 3.3.3 of the Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is now available for this Java library that makes it easy to utilize native APIs from OpenGL and Vulkan to OpenCL compute and other OS APIs within Java's confines. LWJGL is used for Java games and can also be used with other Java software looking for rich API support particularly around GPU integration...

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Linux 6.5 Now Powering Ubuntu 23.10

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 September, 2023

Just as anticipated, the Linux 6.5 kernel has landed in the Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic archive as the default kernel powering this next Ubuntu distribution release due out in October...