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TLB Flushing Scalability Optimizations Merged For Linux 6.14 To Benefit AMD / Intel CPUs

While we are approaching the end of the Linux 6.14 merge window with Linux 6.14-rc1 expected on Sunday, the fun isn't over quite yet... Among other last minute pull requests today were a set of patches to work on better optimizing the TLB flushing scal...

2025-01-31 16:57

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GNOME 48 Switches Over To "Adwaita Sans" As Default Font

As another last minute change for GNOME 48 ahead of its feature freeze this weekend, the default font of the GNOME desktop has changed...

2025-01-31 12:45

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The Compelling AVX-512 Performance Advantage On AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin"

Back in October following the launch of the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors I ran an AVX-512 performance comparison for the EPYC 9755 with 512-bit data path vs. 256-bit data path vs. AVX-512 disabled. That was interesting for showing the benefits of Zen 5...

2025-01-31 10:53

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Servo Aims For Shadow DOM & Improved Embedding API In 2025

The Servo open-source browser engine written in Rust has published some of their development statistics and other figures for 2025. Additionally they have shared their planned roadmap for 2025...

2025-01-31 09:41

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KVM Enhancements Within The Linux 6.14 Kernel

Along with other Intel TDX changes and AMD SEV updates separately sent out for thei n-development Linux 6.14 kernel, there is the usual hearty batch of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization updates too...

2025-01-31 08:31

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Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" Seeing Progress On Wayland Support

One of the important pieces of open-source software still working toward proper Wayland support is the Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" that in turn is depended upon by software like Steam, OBS Studio, Spotify, and many other software packages for hav...

2025-01-31 06:36

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FUSE Hooks Up With IO_uring For Greater Performance Potential In Linux 6.14

The FUSE code within the Linux kernel for enabling file-systems in user-space has a new performance capability up its sleeve with now supporting IO_uring communication between kernel and user-space...

2025-01-31 06:23

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NVIDIA VFIO Driver Prepares For Blackwell With Linux 6.14

All of the Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) driver updates were merged this week as we reach the end of the Linux 6.14 merge window...

2025-01-31 06:09

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Mesa 25.0-rc1 Released With Initial AMD RDNA4 Support, Vulkan 1.4 & Other New Extensions

Mesa 25.0 feature development is now over with the code having been branched from Mesa Git and the Mesa 25.0-rc1 release candidate issued. Mesa 25.0 is to be the next quarterly feature release for these open-source 3D graphics drivers and will hopefull...

2025-01-30 20:36

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GParted 1.7 Released With Support For Bcachefs & Network Block Devices

GParted as the GNOME Partition Editor as one of the most robust solutions for GUI-driven partition and file-system management on Linux is out with a new feature release...

2025-01-30 20:20

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Intel Decides Against Bringing Falcon Shores To Market, Instead An Internal Test Chip

Intel Co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus announced during their Q4 earnings call this evening that they will not be bringing their "Falcon Shores" AI / HPC chip to market. Falcon Shores was to be their next-gen GPU accelerator to effectively succeed the...

2025-01-30 19:29

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 / RTX 5090 Linux Gaming Benchmarks

Over the past week I have published a number of GeForce RTX 5090 Linux compute benchmarks as well as the GeForce RTX 5080 on Linux. With that early NVIDIA R570 Linux driver build as part of the CUDA 12.8 package I was asked to wait on Linux gaming benc...

2025-01-30 16:05

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Bcachefs Lands More Bug Fixes In Linux 6.14

Last week saw the big set of Bcachefs updates merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel that included the last anticipated big on-disk format change as well as scalability improvements. It was a particularly big pull after Bcachefs missed out on any changes bei...

2025-01-30 14:05

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Intel Details Its Pluton-Capable Partner Security Engine With Core Ultra Series 2

One of the details not too widely talked about with Intel's newest Core Ultra Series 2 processors is the introduction of the Partner Security Engine, which is a new dedicated security engine on the SOC that is capable of running the Microsoft Pluton fi...

2025-01-30 12:53

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GNOME Display Control Utility "gdctl" Merged For GNOME 48

Just ahead of the GNOME 48 feature freeze this weekend, gdctl has been merged into GNOME's Mutter as the GNOME Display Control Utility...

2025-01-30 11:20

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Yandex Open-Sources Perforator: Find Code Inefficiencies & "Save Billions of Dollars"

Internet tech company Yandex announced the open-source release today of Perforator as a tool to help identify and evaluate code inefficiencies at scale. They say Perforator can lead to businesses saving "billions of dollars a year on server infrastruct...

2025-01-30 10:29

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Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down

Days after a DRM driver developer orphaned his drivers due to health reasons in stepping down, the sole maintainer at large of the Linux wireless (WiFi) drivers is stepping down and without any immediate replacement...

2025-01-30 10:16

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NVIDIA 570.86.16 Beta Linux Driver Published With GeForce RTX 5080 / RTX 5090 Support

The NVIDIA 570.86.16 beta Linux driver was just published in time for the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 graphics cards hitting store shelves this morning...

2025-01-30 08:58

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AMD AE4DMA Driver Merged For Linux 6.14

In addition to the AMDXDNA driver being merged for Linux 6.14 for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs, this next kernel version is introducing another new AMD kernel driver that hasn't been previously covered on Phoronix: AMD AE4DMA...

2025-01-30 07:00

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Intel Linux Graphics Driver Merges "Major Improvement" For Xe3 With VRT Support

The open-source Intel Linux Mesa graphics driver code has merged support for a "major improvement" found with next-gen Xe3 graphics... Variable Register Thread (VRT) as one of the nifty features that will help with Intel integrated and discrete graphic...

2025-01-30 06:38

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