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      AMD's Compressonator 4.4 Adds AVX-512 Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 July, 2023

    The AMD Compressonator open-source tool suite that is under the GPUOpen umbrella has now added AVX-512 support alongside other enhancements in its v4.4 update...
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      Oracle Intends To Keep Trying To Make Oracle Linux Compatible With RHEL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 July, 2023

    Following the stunning decision last month by IBM that they would begin limiting access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources, AlmaLinux quickly came out working on a path forward and Rocky Linux also shared some ideas how they may continue providing a RHEL-compatible Linux distribution. We've been waiting for Oracle to comment on their plans for the RHEL-compatible Oracle Linux distribution and today they finally issued a statement...
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      Linux 6.5 Bringing Sensor Monitoring To Many More Desktop Motherboards

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 July, 2023

    Among the many interesting changes that landed the past two weeks for the Linux 6.5 merge window, the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates as a whole standout for bringing numerous desktop motherboards and other devices to now enjoy working sensor monitoring support under Linux...
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      AMD Revises WiFi RFI Mitigation Feature For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 July, 2023

    Besides Bcachefs missing out on Linux 6.5, another patch series that didn't get buttoned up in time for the v6.5 merge window was AMD's work on radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation between WiFi 6/6e/7 hardware and AMD's newest SoCs with RDNA3 graphics...
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      Ubuntu Revisiting Its Initramfs Compression Approach

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 July, 2023

    About a year ago Ubunty changed its default compression level for its initramfs handling down to Zstd level one to deal with slow initramfs creation times on low-end systems / development boards. But since then that has resulted in larger initramfs sizes and yielding other bugs like more quickly filling up the /boot partition on Ubuntu systems. Thus the developers have gone back to the drawing board and are trying to figure out a path forward for better initramfs handling that works well for low-end single board computers while also maximizing space savings and working out well for all Ubuntu use-cases...
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      Google Revises New Driver For Stadia Controller Rumble Support On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 July, 2023

    While Google shutdown their Stadia game streaming service, with updated firmware there is Bluetooth (BLE) support for the controller as well as USB wired connectivity for those wishing to continue using this gaming controller. Google engineers have also been working on a new Linux driver for enabling force feedback "rumble" support with this controller...
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      Work Continues For Supporting Intel Sapphire Rapids C0.x Idle States On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 July, 2023

    While Intel's Linux engineers were very timely in enabling much of the Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" support for the upstream Linux kernel well ahead of the processor launch at the beginning of the year, one patch series that has continued on post-launch has been working to get the new C0.x idle states supported...
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      Linux 6.5-rc1 Released With Initial USB4 v2 Support, Cachestat, AMD RDNA3 Overclocking

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 July, 2023

    Linus Torvalds just declared the first release candidate of Linux 6.5 that also marks the end of new feature code being introduced for this cycle...
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      GIMP 2.99.16 Released As GIMP 3.0 RCs Near

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 July, 2023

    GIMP 2.99.16 is out this Sunday as the GIMP 3.0 release candidate finally nears...