• Pantherina@feddit.de
        271·
        9 months ago

        Hardened_malloc is a security enhanced memory allocator forked from OpenBSD and maintained and used in GrapheneOS. It protects against various memory exploits and works just fine on Linux, I tried Gaming and more.

        The Fedora variant “Secureblue” has it preinstalled, they maintain the COPR and handle the preloading also for Flatpak apps.

        By default Firefox doesnt accept that though, and gives some memory errors. Fedora Firefox should now work with hardened_malloc, as they applied a build argument to allow it.

  • Unyieldingly@lemmy.world
    121·
    9 months ago

    Good one day i maybe able to use AMD hardware and dump cuda, it really sucked not being able to to use simple software do to AMD’s zero support.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
      7·
      9 months ago

      K, this is one of those “and now I’m afraid to ask” memes, but comnents like yours have me super confused. What’s all the CUDA about?

      I have 2 machines with AMD CPU/GPU hardware. SOC maybe? I really didn’t pay much attention outside of wanting the extra CPU cores for… reasons. They’re both Ryzen, one’s a 5, 'tother a 7. The GPU component has always worked fantastically, but I don’t stress it much as I’m not a gamer. The CPU component has been a dream for my many-threaded needs. And so I’m confused when people chip in about this news complaining about AMD. What, exactly, isn’t working for people, and why don’t I notice it?

      • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
        16·
        9 months ago

        CUDA is Nvidia’s conputation toolkit and language. it opens up to developers ways to accelerate tasks using the GPU. GPUs are usually really good at doing 2 things better than CPUs, Floating point math, and linear algebra (think a gpu to be like thousands of dumb smaller cores vs a couple of large cores with multiple instructions like the CPU.)

        CUDAs main strength is that it makes programming a lot easier for devs, at the cost that its implementation is black box and proprietary. when you have devs use such a proprietary language, the it makes it significantly harder to jump ship if your work relies on it to make a profit.

      • D_Air1@lemmy.ml
        8·
        9 months ago

        Cuda is Nvidia’s GPU programming toolkit. It has become the de facto standard for machine learning and AI work as well as various other workloads in which running the program on the graphics card is faster than doing so on the cpu.

        Edit: There is more that it does, I am just giving a simplified explanation.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) on Monday approved some last-minute features ahead of the Fedora Linux 40 release quickly coming up in February.

    • A new tool for Fedora IoT called “Simplified Provisioning” that makes it easier to deploy and configure the Fedora Internet of Things (IoT) edition.

    • Fedora IoT will now be built using the RPM-OSTree unified core.

    • As for the recent debate around Fedora 40 dropping KDE X11 by default, FESCo has offered their latest guidance.

    At the meeting they decided that KDE packages may reintroduce support for X11 are allowed in the main Fedora repositories but that they must not be included by default for any release-blocking deliverables like the ISO/image, etc.

    More details on this week’s FESco rulings can be found via the Fedora mailing list.

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  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    31·
    9 months ago

    Does this mean that Fedora will include even more proprietary software? WiFi and GPU firmware are one thing but I don’t want the future where Fedora installs steam and candy crush out of the box.