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Linux 6.14 Power Management: "Dominated By AMD P-State Driver Changes"

All of the power management feature updates for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel were sent out earlier this week and subsequently merged. As we've been seeing with recent Linux kernel releases, AMD continues investing a lot into their AMD P-State C...

2025-01-23 12:31

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Redis 8.0-M3 Brings Async I/O Threading, 12x Speed-Up With New AVX2 Code Path

For those making use of the source-available Redis in-memory key-value database, the upcoming Redis 8.0 will offer better performance on today's high core count systems and servers...

2025-01-23 11:05

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Debian 15 Is Codenamed "Duke"

With Debian 13 freeze dates announced and that Debian 13.0 "Trixie" release working its way toward release likely around August, it's then to be followed by beginning development on Debian 14 codenamed as "Forky". Yesterday when announcing the Debian T...

2025-01-23 10:04

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Linux Benchmarks: Stay Tuned

Following the unboxing embargo earlier this week for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, today the review embargo lifts for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition...

2025-01-23 09:00

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Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto Performance For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14

The crypto subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.14 kernel. Notable this time are new x86_64-specific optimizations for the AES-GCM and AES-XTS algorithms. Benefiting the most from these new x86_64 optimizations are recent AMD processor...

2025-01-23 08:37

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Red Hat Preparing Tuned 2.25 Daemon For Linux Monitoring & Adaptive Performance Tuning

The Tuned software from Red Hat is a daemon for Linux monitoring and adaptive performance tuning as an alternative to the likes of power-profiles-daemon. Tuned ships with various profiles and allows different features for tuning the Linux system perfor...

2025-01-23 06:51

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Minor Benefit Observed For Caching Symlink Lengths Within inodes On Linux 6.14

Along with other VFS pull requests for Linux 6.14 to introduce STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN, adding a new mountinfo program, VirtualBox guest support for ARM64 VMs, and faster /proc/kcore reading, another VFS pull for this new kernel brings a minor performance...

2025-01-23 06:43

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Linux 6.14 Adds Support For The Microsoft Copilot Key Found On New Laptops

Newer laptops pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows have begun adding a "Copilot" key for launching Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant or other "chatbot" software. With the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel, that key will be mapped out correctly so that user-space ...

2025-01-23 06:32

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PanVK Driver Now Exposing Vulkan 1.1 For Arm Mali Valhall v10 GPUs

With the newest code merged for Mesa 25.0, the Panfrost PanVK driver is exposing Vulkan 1.1 support on Arm Valhall "v10" graphics processors...

2025-01-23 06:18

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Landlock Security Module Able To Deal With "Weird Files" On Linux 6.14

The Landlock Linux security module that was added to the mainline Linux kernel four years ago for unprivileged application sandboxing and similar access controls has a rather weird update for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel: Land lock can now deal...

2025-01-22 20:33

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Initial Freeze Dates Announced For Debian 13.0 "Trixie"

With Debian 13 due out in the coming months, the Debian 13 artwork/theme was recently announced as well as the Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 release. The latest is the freeze dates for Debian 13.0 being announced today...

2025-01-22 19:14

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Intel Calls For More Modular PC Designs, Easier Component Replacement/Upgrades

In an Intel blog post today they outlined their desire for a more modular PC design to enhance repairability and reduce e-waste. It's very much along similar lines of the Framework Computer upgradeable and easily serviceable laptops. With some luck hop...

2025-01-22 15:42

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Arch Linux Installer Adds Wayfire As A Desktop Option, Btrfs Improvements

Archinstall 3.0.2 was just tagged as the newest version of this quick and easy, text-based installer for the Arch Linux operating system...

2025-01-22 14:10

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Free Software Foundation Marking 40 Years Old With A New Logo

In October it will mark 40 years since the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded by Richard Stallman. In marking forty years of supporting the free software movement, they have been running a logo contest to memorialize the milestone. Today that n...

2025-01-22 13:12

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AMD Radeon On Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0-devel vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance

Ahead of the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series graphics "Blackwell" and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series "RDNA4" later in the quarter, I figured it would be worthwhile having a dedicated article looking at the latest upstream Linux graphics/gaming per...

2025-01-22 12:00

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AMD Announces The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" For Advanced Linux Desktop Features

An unexpected surprise today are AMD Linux software engineers announcing a new project a bit further outside the scope of their open-source graphics drivers... The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" is for delivering new advanced features atop Wayland for ...

2025-01-22 10:12

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Very Promising Linux Patch Optimizes TLB Flushes During Page Reclamation

Google engineer Vinay Banakar sent out a patch this week for the Linux kernel's memory management code to optimize TLB flushes during page reclaim and are showing very promising results...

2025-01-22 10:01

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Linux's KUnit Will Now Default To Using Hardware Acceleration For Faster Testing

Surprisingly a change not made years ago, the Linux Kernel Unit Testing "KUnit" framework with the Linux 6.14 kernel is set to use hardware acceleration by default for faster testing where available...

2025-01-22 08:51

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Linux 6.14 Working To Make It Less Painful Debugging Early Boot Issues

Linux kernel developers are working to make it easier to debug early boot issues such as Kexec failures as currently dealing with such situations can be a frustrating and time consuming headache for figuring out the problems prior to the kernel being f...

2025-01-22 06:55

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AMD Releases Orochi 3.0 For HIP & CUDA API Switching At Run-Time

Back in April 2022 was the announcement by AMD's GPUOpen team of Orochi as a library for HIP/CUDA API run-time switching. Making use of Orochi allows for dynamically targeting either AMD HIP or NVIDIA CUDA at run-time to ease the distribution/usage of ...

2025-01-22 06:35

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