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AMD's ROCm 5.7.1 driver for Ubuntu Linux supports PyTorch 2.0.1 on Radeon Pro, Radeon RX 7900 graphics cards.

While Ubuntu 23.10 isn't a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, for those curious about the evolution of Ubuntu Linux performance for Intel Xeon Max (Sapphire Rapids with HBM2e) on this new release just six months out from the all-important Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, here are some benchmarks showing the dual Intel Xeon Max 9480 performance on a Supermicro X13DEM platform while comparing Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu 23.04, and the brand new Ubuntu 23.10. We've been seeing nice performance uplift on Ubuntu 23.10 both for AMD and Intel x86_64 platforms.

While Friday's release of ROCm 5.7.1 hadn't mentioned any Radeon family GPU support besides the aging Radeon VII, it turns out AMD's newest open-source GPU compute stack is ready to go now with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and is complete with working PyTorch support.

Hours after Ubuntu 23.10 was released last Thursday it was discovered Ubuntu 23.10 ISOs contained malicious user translations for those using the Ukrainian translations within the Ubuntu Linux desktop installer

Canonical's Ubuntu 23.10 release, codenamed Mantic Minotaur, has two major changes, primarily with its default and full installer options.