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Itanium retired from Linux by Torvalds
by Nick FarrelLast modified on 06 November 2023 It was a long time coming. Linus Torvalds removed some 65,219 lines of Itanium-supporting code in a commit earlier this week, giving the architecture a “well-earned retirement as planned. For those not in the know, Intel’s Itanium chips and their IA-64 architecture have been discontinued since 2021,…
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Fedora Powered by Linux Kernel 6.5
Fedora Linux 39 Is Now Available for Download, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.5The Fedora Workstation edition ships with the latest GNOME 45 desktop environment. After several delays, the Fedora Project released today Fedora Linux 39 as the latest stable version of this Red Hat-sponsored GNU/Linux distribution for the masses featuring the latest technologies and Open…
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OpenELA Source Code Now Available
OpenELA today announced the public release of the Enterprise Linux source code along with important technical and governance milestones. OpenELA is a trade association of open source Enterprise Linux distribution developers originally founded by CIQ, Oracle and SUSE. It exists to encourage development and collaboration of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) by…
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Android is slowly entering the RISC-V era
Google plans RISC-V Android tools in 2024, wants developers to “be ready.” Android is slowly entering the RISC-V era. So far we’ve seen Google say it wants to give the up-and-coming CPU architecture “tier-1” support in Android, putting RISC-V on equal footing with Arm. Qualcomm has announced the first mass-market RISC-V Android chip, a still-untitled…
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ARM Acquires Minority Stake in Raspberry Pi
Arm Holdings plc today announced that it has made a strategic investment, a minority stake in Raspberry Pi Ltd — the arm of Raspberry Pi responsible for the new Raspberry Pi 5 and past Raspberry Pi products. Arm’s minority stake extends the long-term partnership between Arm and Raspberry Pi, which has seen Arm CPUs feature…
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“Open Source is the Antidote, for an Inclusive AI”
Day 1 of the UK’s AI Safety Summit was completed yesterday (November 1, 2023). The next summit will be hosted by South Korea 6 months from now, and then by France, 1 year from now. Here’s all that you need to know: 🍿Our no BS Summary: On pausing AI development:The responsible developers and companies are…
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