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Early Linux 6.12 Kernel Benchmarks Showing Some Nice Gains On AMD Zen 5
With the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend and the bulk of the new feature merges now in the tree, I've begun running some Linux 6.12 benchmarks. Here is an initial look at Linux 6.10 vs. 6.11 vs. 6.12 Git on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X desktop...
2024-09-27 12:22
LibreOffice 24.8.2 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 85 Bug Fixes
LibreOffice 24.8.2 is now available for download as the second maintenance update in the LibreOffice 24.8 series with 85 bug fixes. All LibreOffice 24.8 office suite users must update to this version as soon as possible. The post LibreOffice 24.8.2 Off...
2024-09-27 11:31
AmpereOne CPPC CPUFreq Schedutil vs. Performance Governor Benchmarks
Similar to the ACPI CPUFreq and AMD/Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver and scaling governor benchmarks and power efficiency comparisons I routinely do on Phoronix, when recently having the Supermicro AmpereOne server in the lab with the 192-cor...
2024-09-27 11:02
Intel's Open PGL v0.7 Delivers New Experimental Features
Intel software engineers have released version 0.7 of Open PGL, their open-source Path Guiding Library (PGL) that can be used by 3D renderers to enjoy state-of-the-art path guiding methods for better sampling quality and efficiency...
2024-09-27 10:13
AI in Healthcare: 5 Use Cases and 1 challenge
The accelerated developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence in healthcare have set the stage for some interesting transformations. By enabling better care for patients, optimizing processes, and generating new opportunities for medical...
2024-09-27 09:16
CouchDB Update Brings QuickJS Engine Option - 4~5x Faster Than SpiderMonkey
Apache CouchDB 3.4.1 was released today after the developers decided at the last minute before releasing CouchDB 3.4 to drop automatic upgrading of password hashes... Thus CouchDB 3.4.1 is out as the big "CouchDB 3.4" release. The CouchDB 3.4 series br...
2024-09-27 08:44
Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.11
The kernel team is working on final integration for Linux kernel 6.11. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora Linux. As a result, the Fedora Linux kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Sunday, September 29...
2024-09-27 08:00
Asynchronous Device Shutdown Doesn't Make It For Linux 6.12
Patches for wiring up async device shutdown within the Linux kernel were queued via the driver core branch for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. However, at the last minute these asynchronous device shutdown patches were reverted so that they can b...
2024-09-27 06:52
Last Call For The 2024 Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest Promotion
If you wanted to get in on the last Phoronix Premium promotion before the end-of-year holidays, this is your last chance to do so with the "Oktoberfest" sale ending this weekend for helping to support the site while enjoying ad-free browsing, native da...
2024-09-27 06:41
Sound Open Firmware 2.11 Adds AMD ACP 7.0 Strix Point & Intel Panther Lake Support
Sound Open Firmware 2.11 is now available for this open-source audio DSP firmware infrastructure and SDK project backed by Intel, AMD, and other IHVs/ISVs. With SOF 2.11 comes support for new hardware from both AMD and Intel...
2024-09-27 06:30
Upstream Linux 6.12 Makes It Easier To Build A Debug Kernel For Arch Linux
The upstream Linux 6.11 kernel introduced the ability to easily produce a Pacman kernel package for Arch Linux with the new "make pacman-pkg" target. With Linux 6.12 new additions to the Kbuild code make it easy to also produce a debug kernel build for...
2024-09-27 06:20
Blumenkrantz Seeks Clear Policy How Wayland Protocol Changes Can Be Rejected
As part of his new hope for helping to accelerate Wayland protocol development, Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve proposed an "experimental" protocol development area within Wayland-Protocols. He's also laid out a proposal for seeking to solidify the means ...
2024-09-27 05:53
Ubuntu Patches ‘Severe’ Security Flaw in CUPS
If you’ve cast a half-glazed eye over Linux social media feeds at some point in the past few days you may have caught wind that a huge Linux security flaw was about to be disclosed. And today it was: a remote code execution flaw affecting the CUP...
2024-09-26 22:17
CUPS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available
Four CVE IDs have been assigned that together form an high-impact exploit chain surrounding CUPS: CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176 and CVE-2024-47177. Canonical’s security team has released updates for the cups-browsed, cups-filters, li...
2024-09-26 21:51
BusyBox 1.37 Adds "getfattr" Along With Other Improvements
BusyBox 1.37 has been released as the first feature release in one and a half years for this "Swiss Army Knife of embedded Linux" systems. With BusyBox 1.37 comes some new options, many fixes, and other enhancements...
2024-09-26 20:14
Unauthenticated RCE Flaw With CVSS 9.9 Rating For Linux Systems Affects CUPS
There's been much speculation since this morning over a reported "severe" unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting Linux systems that carries a CVSS 9.9.9 score... The embargo has now lifted with the details on this nasty issue...
2024-09-26 16:10
COSMIC DE Alpha 2 Released, This is What’s New
Chocks away —British saying, don’t stare at me weirdly— as the second alpha of System76’s homegrown COSMIC desktop environment has been released. To make it easy for us all to try out the latest improvements a second alpha build of Pop!...
2024-09-26 15:30
COSMIC Alpha 2 Released with Bluetooth Settings, Much-Improved File Manager
COSMIC Alpha 2 desktop environment is now available for public testing with new Bluetooth settings, a new Gallery feature in files, new density options, and other changes. Here's what's new! The post COSMIC Alpha 2 Released with Bluetooth Settings, Muc...
2024-09-26 15:28
Intel Xeon 6980P vs. AMD EPYC Power Efficiency / Performance-Per-Watt Benchmarks
Earlier this week in the launch-day Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids review/benchmarks I unfortunately wasn't able to provide any CPU power consumption and performance-per-Watt benchmarks due a Linux kernel issue and the minimal time ahead of launch for...
2024-09-26 13:52
PostgreSQL 17 Released With AVX-512 Optimization & Up To 2x Better Write Throughput
PostgreSQL 17 is out today as the newest annual feature release to this widely-used SQL database server. Notable with PostgreSQL 17 is having an AVX-512 optimized bit_count function along with several other heavy hitting performance optimizations...
2024-09-26 10:38