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Mesa 24.3-rc2 Brings Fixes For Intel & NVK Drivers

Last week Mesa 24.3 was finally branched and Mesa 24.3-rc1 subsequently issued for getting the release process kicked off for this quarterly 3D graphics driver feature release. Out today is Mesa 24.3-rc2 with an initial batch of fixes...

2024-11-13 16:20

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Apple M4 Mac Mini With macOS vs. Intel / AMD With Ubuntu Linux Performance

Apple last week released their latest iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro products powered by their fourth-generation M-series Apple Silicon. The new Mac Mini in particular is interesting for under $600 starting out with the all re-designed Mac Mini with 1...

2024-11-13 13:10

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Ubuntu 25.04 To Further Enhance Its Installer, Aims For Linux 6.14 Kernel

Canonical's Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop, Oliver Smith, has shared some early roadmap plans for the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle...

2024-11-13 13:03

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RISC-V Motherboard For Framework 13 Pricing Starts At $368 In Early Access, $928 For Laptop

Framework Computer has been promoting a RISC-V motherboard option for their Framework Laptop 13 to complement their existing Intel Core and AMD Ryzen motherboard options. This RISC-V motherboard is being developed in cooperation with DeepComputing. Ear...

2024-11-13 10:30

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GNU C Library Merges Support for getrandom vDSO

Back in Linux 6.11 support for getrandom() in the vDSO was upstreamed for much better performance in providing speedy yet secure random number generation (RNG) needs. Since Linux 6.11 getrandom in the vDSO has expanded to more CPU architectures and now...

2024-11-13 09:20

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Intel's Zswap IAA Compress Batching Work Is Very Interesting For Linux Performance

The Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) found in various Xeon SKUs since Sapphire Rapids can be of big benefit to Linux servers/workstations with a Linux kernel patch series that has been in the works to provide Zswap IAA compress batching...

2024-11-13 08:21

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NVIDIA MLX5 Introducing Data Direct Placement "DDP" In Linux 6.13 For Boosting Bandwidth

The NVIDIA MLX5 driver for NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-5 network adapters is preparing to introduce a new Data Direct Placement "DDP" feature with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window...

2024-11-13 06:55

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Uncached Buffered IO Is Performing Great, Working Now On Btrfs / EXT4 / XFS

As covered last week Linux I/O expert Jens Axboe has been taking a fresh pursuit of uncached buffered I/O for Linux. This "RWF_UNCACHED" work was originally started back in 2019 while a renewed effort around it is showing ~65% faster read/write perform...

2024-11-13 06:38

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AMD Continues Backing AlmaLinux For Community Enterprise Linux OS

The AlmaLinux operating system project that was started from the fallout of the RHEL/CentOS development shift several years ago has once again courted AMD as a sponsorship of this community enterprise Linux operating system...

2024-11-13 06:15

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xcompmgr 1.1.10 Released For Classic "Eye Candy" Compositor On X.Org

Xcompmgr 1.1.10 was released yesterday as the newest update to this basic X11 compositor providing "eye candy" effects for classic X.Org usage...

2024-11-13 05:28

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Intel Idle Support For Granite Rapids D Going Into Linux 6.13

The "intel_idle" driver provides CPU idle time management for Intel processors on Linux for helping to put the processor into low-power states in conjunction with the MWAIT instruction. With the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel, the Granite Rapids D support ...

2024-11-12 16:17

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Intel Releases New CPU Microcode For Two New Security Advisories

It's the second Tuesday of the month and this Patch Tuesday brings new CPU microcode for mitigating the latest Intel processor security vulnerabilities and updates to some previously disclosed issues...

2024-11-12 12:42

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Early Benchmarks: AMD EPYC 9005 Performance & Power Efficiency To Lead Further With Linux 6.13

One of the many changes to look forward to with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle is the AMD P-State driver to be used by default with the new EPYC 9005 series processors. While AMD Ryzen CPUs for a while now have been defaulting to the modern AMD P...

2024-11-12 11:10

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GNOME Mutter Lands Improved GPU Selection Logic For Laptops

Merged today to GNOME's Mutter compositor is improved logic for selecting the graphics processor to treat as the primary one within multi-GPU laptops...

2024-11-12 09:30

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Red Hat Acquiring Neural Magic To Bolster Open-Source AI Offerings

Red Hat announced today they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Neural Magic, an AI software company behind the likes of DeepSparse and nm-vllm...

2024-11-12 08:26

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Mesa 25.0 Clover OpenCL Drops Support For NIR Drivers

As part of the transition to eventually drop the long dormant Clover OpenCL state tracker from Mesa's Gallium3D codebase in favor of the modern OpenCL Rusticl Rust-written driver, Mesa 25.0 has ended Clover support for NIR-based drivers...

2024-11-12 07:00

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AMD's Ninth Iteration Of Their XDNA Linux Driver Posted For Ryzen AI

Yesterday brought the eighth and ninth iteration of the AMD XDNA Linux kernel driver posted for review for enabling the Ryzen AI branded NPUs found in their recent SoCs...

2024-11-12 06:30

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Red Hat & Intel Developing "Climatik" For Power Capping AI In The Data Center

Red Hat in cooperation with Intel, Bloomberg and IBM has been developing the Climatik open-source project as a means of power capping AI use within the data center for better energy efficiency and sustainability...

2024-11-12 06:15

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GCC 15 Lands New Optimization For AMD Zen 4 & Zen 5 CPUs

Merged today for the upcoming GCC 15 stable release is a new "X86_TUNE_AVX512_TWO_EPILOGUES" tuning optimization that is enabled by default for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors...

2024-11-12 05:59

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DXVK 2.5 Brings Memory Management Rewrite & Other Improvements

DXVK 2.5 was just released as the newest version of this open-source project implementing Direct3D APIs atop the Vulkan API for better handling of Windows games on Linux systems as used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) software...

2024-11-11 14:08

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