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Linux 6.14 To Introduce New DRM Boot Logger For Kernel Messages

Sent out today was the latest drm-misc-next pull request of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) changes queuing up ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle. Most exciting this week is the DRM boot logger being queued for landing to better present kernel...

2024-12-16 06:34

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Better Linux Support For The Samsung Galaxy Book Laptops With New Driver Coming

For those interested in using Linux on the Samsung Galaxy Book line of laptops that ship with Microsoft Windows out-of-the-box, a new "samsung-galaxybook" driver is being worked on for supporting additional laptop functionality not currently found with...

2024-12-16 06:16

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Last Minute AMD GFX12 Changes For RadeonSI Driver Enable ACO For RDNA4

Ahead of AMD's approaching RDNA4 next-generation graphics card launch, today a set of last minute improvements to the AMD GFX12 graphics IP were merged to Mesa 25.0 for the open-source Linux graphics driver support...

2024-12-16 05:58

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Linux 6.13-rc3 Released With KVM Caching For "Wildly Expensive" Intel CPUID Handling

Linus Torvalds announced the release this evening of the Linux 6.13-rc3 kernel as Linux 6.13 works its way to stable release by late January...

2024-12-15 19:22

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Xfce 4.20 Desktop Environment Released with Experimental Wayland Support

Xfce 4.20 desktop environment is out now with new features and improvements to the file manager and panel, experimental Wayland support, and more. Here’s what’s new! The post Xfce 4.20 Desktop Environment Released with Experimental Wayland Support ...

2024-12-15 13:20

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Java Throughput/Latency & Power Efficiency Tuning For AMD EPYC Turin

Last month I looked at the impact of AMD's BIOS tuning guide on AI / machine learning workloads for new 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" processors. In today's article I am looking at the performance and power efficiency impact of AMD EPYC 9005 series processors w...

2024-12-15 10:00

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Linux Fixing A "Hilarious/Revolting Performance Regression" Around Intel KVM Virtualization

It's not too often that "fixes" to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) are noteworthy but today is an interesting exception with among the KVM fixes sent in today ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc3 tagging is for beginning to deal with a "hilarious/revolti...

2024-12-15 08:55

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Xfce 4.20 Desktop Released With Wayland Improvements & New Features

After roughly two years of development the Xfce 4.20 lightweight desktop has been released ahead of the year end holidays...

2024-12-15 06:34

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Btrfs Working On RAID1 Round-Robin Read Balancing

It's been a while since there has been anything new to report on the Btrfs file-system's built-in RAID functionality but that is changing with RAID1 round-robin read balancing...

2024-12-15 06:20

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Linux 6.14 To Add Sensor Monitoring For A ~$180 ASRock AM5 Motherboard

In addition to Linux 6.14 set to add sensor monitoring support for the ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS, another lower-cost AMD AM5 motherboard is also set to see sensor monitoring support with this next version of the Linux kernel...

2024-12-15 06:06

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Linux 6.6.66 LTS Kernel Released With New Hardware Support & Many Fixes

Linux 6.6.66 was released today alongside other updated Long Term Support (LTS) kernel versions...

2024-12-14 17:15

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Some Qualcomm CPUs Left Exposed To Spectre Vulnerabilities On Mainline Linux

Some Qualcomm processors/SoCs on the mainline Linux kernel are left vulnerable to Spectre security issues since Qualcomm hasn't upstreamed patches for properly treating affected CPU cores to their relevant mitigations. But a new patch series from a Goo...

2024-12-14 15:09

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Intel P-State Energy Aware Scheduling Patches Updated For Lunar Lake

As covered last month on Phoronix, Intel has been experimenting with Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) for the Intel P-State driver with a goal of enhancing the power efficiency of Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" processors. Recently a second iteration of that wor...

2024-12-14 09:27

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Mesa 25.0 Introduces Standard Library For Driver OpenCL C

An interesting addition to Mesa 25.0 this week is Alyssa Rosenzweig adding a standard library for the driver OpenCL C code, including the initial abbility to support assert() on device and other standard C constructs for the OpenCL C code...

2024-12-14 08:50

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NTSYNC Linux Driver Updated With API Design Improvements

After some six months of silence, this past week the NTSYNC LInux kernel driver patches were revived for completing this open-source driver to better match the Windows NT synchronization primitives to help with Wine / Proton (Steam Play) Windows gaming...

2024-12-14 06:36

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Qualcomm Preps Cloud AI 200 "AIC200" Accelerator Support

While not as popular as their Snapdragon SoCs, Qualcomm has been offering their Cloud AI line of accelerators for scalable AI inference. The current flagship is the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra as a 150 Watt rated PCIe Gen4 x16 card for up to 870 TOPS I...

2024-12-14 06:22

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KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivers Much Better Fractional Scaling, Clipboard Using SQLite

KDE developers continue to be quite busy ahead of the holidays to pack more features into the upcoming Plasma 6.3 desktop release...

2024-12-14 05:46

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Wine 10.0-rc2 Released With 21 Fixes For The Week

Building off last week's release of Wine 10.0-rc1 is now Wine 10.0-rc2 as the next test release in working toward the Wine 10.0 stable debut around mid January...

2024-12-13 20:31

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Intel Lands "Round Robin Strict" Driver Optimization For Helping Battlemage/Xe2

Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are busy working to further refine the Xe2 graphics performance for Lunar Lake integrated graphics and the newly-launched Battlemage discrete graphics. Landing in Mesa 25.0-devel this Friday afternoon...

2024-12-13 16:26

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CentOS Stream 10 Released with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, GNOME 47, and DNF 4.20

CentOS Stream 10 distribution is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and featuring the GNOME 47 desktop environment. Here's what's new! The post CentOS Stream 10 Released with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, GNOME 47, and DNF 4.20 appear...

2024-12-13 16:06

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