Benchmarks

Benchmarks: Excellent Power Efficiency With 5th Gen AMD EPYC Using amd-pstate & Power Profiles
The AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors that launched last year offer excellent performance and power efficiency out-of-the-box. For those wanting to pursue maximum power efficiency and running in the most optimal configuration for performance-per-Watt, A...
2025-02-21 09:00
Ubuntu 25.04 Working On More Improvements For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptop Support
We are nearing one year since the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops shipped with Windows 11 ARM. For the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release it's looking like more of these ARM-powered laptops will have somewhat usable support at least for those wan...
2025-02-21 08:30
PCSX2 Enables Wayland Support By Default - After Previously Calling It "Super Broken"
The latest open-source project enabling Wayland support by default today is PCSX2 as the PlayStation 2 game emulator for Linux and other platforms...
2025-02-21 07:30
Gentoo Linux Announces Official QCOW2 Images For Cloud VMs
One of the Linux distributions we hear very little about in the industry for cloud/VM usage is Gentoo Linux. But that could change with the Gentoo project now putting out official QCOW2 disk images to make it easier deploying this source-based Linux di...
2025-02-21 06:54
Z3fold & Zbud Allocators Likely To Be Removed In Linux 6.15
It's looking like Linux 6.15 will be the kernel that does away with the Z3fold and Zbud allocators...
2025-02-21 06:42
Ubuntu 25.04 Now Under Feature Freeze Ahead Of April Release
The Ubuntu 25.04 feature freeze is now in effect as Canonical and the Ubuntu Linux developer community work toward releasing the "Plucky Puffin" in April...
2025-02-21 06:18
Chromium Ozone Support For Wayland Continues Progressing In 2025
Google engineers themselves haven't been energetically pursuing Wayland support within the Ozone abstraction layer for the Chrome/Chromium web browser but thankfully the consulting firm Igalia continues pushing this native Wayland support along. Nick Y...
2025-02-21 06:06
Linus Torvalds Clearly Lays Out Linux Maintainer Roles - Or Not - Around Rust Code
The Linux kernel mailing list drama around the Rust programming language use within the kernel continues... Linus Torvalds has largely refrained from the ongoing LKML discussions around a Rust policy for the Linux kernel and in-fighting between kernel ...
2025-02-20 20:34
Mesa's Zink Driver Enables cl_khr_gl_sharing, Working On DaVinci Resolve Support
Mesa's generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has landed support for cl_khr_gl_sharing, the extension that allows using OpenGL buffer / texture / render-buffer objects as OpenCL memory objects for better interoperability between the OpenGL and OpenCL API...
2025-02-20 15:07
Rust 1.85 Release Stabilizes Rust 2024 Edition
Rust 1.85 is out today and it is also the release that stabilizes the Rust 2024 Edition...
2025-02-20 13:18
OpenRazer 3.10 Delivers New Razer Hardware Support For Linux Users
OpenRazer 3.10 was just released as the newest update to this set of community-maintained, open-source out-of-tree driver packages for enabling Razer device support on Linux...
2025-02-20 12:49
Linux Finally Introducing A Standardized Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs
The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is set to finally introduce a standardized way of informing user-space of GPUs becoming hung or otherwise unresponsive. This is initially wired up for AMD and Intel graphics drivers on Linux so the user can be properly no...
2025-02-20 09:30
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Now Available With Initial HWE Stack
Following last week's delay due to a packaging mishap, Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is available today as the newest point release for this current Long Term Support version of Ubuntu Linux...
2025-02-20 08:55
Linux Lazy Unmap Flush "LUF" Reducing TLB Shootdowns By 97%, Faster AI LLM Performance
SK has been working on a Linux kernel feature dubbed Lazy Unmap Flush "LUF" to defer TLB flushes until folios have been unmapped and freed are eventually allocated again...
2025-02-20 07:07
New Patches Would Make All Kernel Encryption/Decryption Faster On x86/x86_64 Hardware
On top of all the recent x86/x86_64 Linux kernel crypto improvements made recently by Google engineer Eric Biggers to better laverage AVX-512 and other modern x86 ISA features, a new patch-set posted today by Biggers would help make all x86/x86_64 kern...
2025-02-20 06:37
Debian Policy Updated With New Packaging Guidance & Updated Chinese Translations
The Debian Policy 4.7.1.0 is now available as the updated manual around policy requirements for the Debian distribution for packaging mandates, design issues, and other details to abide by for Debian developers...
2025-02-20 06:25
GNOME Mutter Adds Debug Option To Override Multi-GPU Copy Mode
A new debug option was merged on Wednesday to Mutter Git ahead of the upcoming GNOME 48 release. This new debug option is to override the GPU copy mode handling for multi-GPU setups...
2025-02-20 06:10
Zstd 1.5.7 Pushing Compression Performance Even Further
Zstandard 1.5.7 was released a short time ago as the newest update to this widely-used compression algorithm backed by Meta. Zstd 1.5.7 packs more than 500 commits, including new performance optimizations and other enhancements...
2025-02-20 00:00
AMD ROCm 6.3.3 Released With Installer & Documentation Improvements
Just a few weeks after the ROCm 6.3.2 update, ROCm 6.3.3 is out this evening with a few more incremental improvements to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack...
2025-02-19 20:20
Fedora Rolling Out More RISC-V Infrastructure & Ready-To-Boot Images
The Fedora Project is rolling out expanded coverage of RISC-V hardware moving forward and making it easier for those with RISC-V developer boards to run Fedora Linux...
2025-02-19 14:00