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PCI Express 8.0 Aims For 256 GT/s In 2028

The PCI-SIG announced today the PCI Express 8.0 specification due out in 2028 will double the data of the PCI Express 7.0 specification, taking it to 256 GT/s...

2025-08-05 17:01

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Debian 13 Showing 13% Performance Improvement Over Debian 12 On AMD EPYC

If all goes according to plan Debian 13.0 will be released this weekend. Already in its effectively final state aside from any last minute fixes, I've begun running Debian 13 testing builds on various systems in the lab to great success. With two years...

2025-08-05 12:00

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exFAT Fixes Significant Random Write Performance Regression With Linux 6.17

Following yesterday's F2FS pull request, the exFAT file-system updates were sent out and since merged for the ongoing Linux 6.17 kernel merge window...

2025-08-05 11:00

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Intel Upstreams libsycl SYCL Runtime Library Into LLVM

For several years now Intel has been working on SYCL support within LLVM and various related efforts like the LLVM SPIR-V back-end as part of their oneAPI ambitions and Data Parallel C++ across their spectrum of hardware. The latest hitting upstream LL...

2025-08-05 08:55

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Raja Koduri Announces New GPU Software & IP Startup - OXPython For CUDA AI On Non-NVIDIA GPUs

Oxmiq Labs exited stealth mode today as a new startup led by Raja Koduri of AMD / Apple / Intel fame to focus on GPU software and licenseable graphics IP. Oxmiq Labs is a new GPU software and IP startup that has been in development for two years alread...

2025-08-05 08:33

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SDL Library Lands Precision Scrolling For X.Org Usage

For Linux gamers relying on the X.Org Server, the SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed support for precision/pixel scrolling...

2025-08-05 06:52

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FFmpeg Delivers Very Nice Performance Gains For Bwdif Deinterlacing With AVX-512

FFmpeg developers are known for delivering some really wild performance gains from hand-optimized Assembly code especially around Intel/AMD AVX-512 optimizations for various features of this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Merged this week ...

2025-08-05 06:38

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Linux 6.17 Introduces hash_pointers= Boot Parameter

Linus Torvalds yesterday merged a patch from SUSE's Petr Mladek introducing a new boot parameter option for the kernel to provide greater control over the behavior of hashing pointer values...

2025-08-05 06:28

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Intel Updates Legacy Compute Driver To Benefit Broadwell Through Ice Lake iGPUs

Last year Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support discontinued its support for Broadwell through Ice Lake integrated graphics to focus strictly on Tigerlake with Intel "Gen12" graphics and newer. Today though ...

2025-08-05 06:12

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openSUSE Leap 16.0 Enters RC Phase With New Installer, Xfce On Wayland Option

Working toward the stable openSUSE Leap 16.0 release in late 2025, the release candidate period has begun for this Linux distribution aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 sources...

2025-08-04 21:31

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F2FS Sees New Improvements Merged For Linux 6.17 While Bcachefs Languishes

Sent out today for the Linux 6.17 merge window and already merged hours later were the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) feature updates...

2025-08-04 20:21

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Git 2.51-rc0 Makes More Preparations For Git 3.0 Where It Will Use SHA-256 By Default

Junio Hamano announced the release of Git 2.51-rc0 to kick off the new week and the first step toward Git 2.51 as the next milestone for this open-source distributed version control system...

2025-08-04 14:40

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AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 "Krackan Point" Offers Outstanding Value In Sub-$500 Laptops

Over the past three months we have been excitedly testing AMD's Strix Halo SoC with the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 flagship model as well as the Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 as one step below. Strix Halo offers excellent CPU and GPU performance capabilities at the ...

2025-08-04 13:25

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NVIDIA CUDA 13.0 Available With Unified Arm Platform Support

Along with today's NVIDIA R580 Linux driver beta, the CUDA 13.0 toolkit is now available to download and depends upon the new R580 Linux driver series...

2025-08-04 12:49

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Mesa NVK Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" GPUs

Merged a short time ago to Mesa 25.3-devel Git and marked for back-porting to the Mesa 25.2 series is advertising Vulkan 1.4 conformance for NVIDIA's latest Blackwell GPUs...

2025-08-04 12:36

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NVIDIA 580 Beta Linux Driver Brings Fixes, Wayland fifo-v1 Support With Vulkan

NVIDIA today published the v580.65.06 as their first beta driver version in the new NVIDIA 580 Linux driver series...

2025-08-04 10:55

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AppArmor For Linux 6.17 Set To Introduce AF_UNIX Mediation, Other Improvements

Canonical engineer John Johansen sent out the AppArmor pull request today for the Linux 6.17 merge window that is heavy on changes for this Linux kernel security module...

2025-08-04 08:45

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Google Preparing To Ship Chrome With "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" For Wayland

Google Chrome/Chromium is preparing to ship with "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" functionality by default so the web browser will play nicer out-of-the-box with Wayland...

2025-08-04 06:44

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Linux 6.17 Making Kdump Crash Kernel More Reliable, Less Wasted Memory

In addition to the many MM changes merged this weekend for Linux 6.17, Andrew Morton on Sunday also sent out his "non-MM" pull request for this new kernel. Notable there is improving the Kdump code to allow for crash kernel reservation made from the co...

2025-08-04 06:30

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GNOME Shell 49 Beta Brings Restart/Shutdown Support To The Lock Screen

Along with the release of the Mutter 49 beta, GNOME Shell 49 beta was released on Sunday in preparation for the imminent GNOME 49 beta release. Notable here is long sought after support for having the ability to restart or shutdown the computer from GN...

2025-08-04 06:15

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