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A new patch series from AMD today for the Linux kernel enables Dynamic Boost Control support that can be found with some Ryzen SoCs for tuning the processor for optimal performance.

Wasmer as the open-source project focused on providing a 'universal WebAssembly runtime' that supports a variety of platforms and architectures is out today with a new feature release.

Linux kernel developers are preparing for the first upgrade to its Rust toolchain since the Rust code initially merged in Linux 6.1.

AMD has published AMDVLK 2023.Q2.1 as their first official open-source Vulkan driver update for the quarter that for Linux users serves as an alternative to the Mesa RADV driver or the code bundled up into their Radeon Software packaged driver.

The Hero C Compiler 'HCC' wants to make it easy to compile C code to run on GPUs by compiling common C11 code and turning it into SPIR-V modules that can then be consumed by GPUs with Vulkan support.

The upstream, open-source Nouveau DRM kernel driver working to make use of the NVIDIA GPU System Processor 'GSP' will ideally lead to more punctual new hardware support, hopefully overcome the power management / re-clocking challenges that have plagued the driver for years with very low performance, and other current limitations

As expected following the GCC 13 release branching this week, the first release candidate of what will be the premiere GCC 13.1 stable release is now available.

For those wondering how the NVIDIA Linux gaming/GPU performance is looking relative to Windows 11, here are some benchmarks using the GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 graphics cards.

The long-awaited port of the GIMP image manipulation program to the GTK3 toolkit is now declared 'officially finished'.

AMD has released AOMP 17.0-1 as the newest version of this open-source compiler focused on providing the latest OpenMP offloading support for Radeon and Instinct accelerator products.