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Clang 20 Compiler Adds Support For Xtensa CPU Target

Back in early 2023 an Xtensa back-end was added to LLVM for the Cadence Tensilica Xtensa IP. Xtensa is used for DSPs, micro-controllers, and this 32-bit RISC architecture is also used for other hardware like data processing engines. Two years after the...

2024-12-31 06:33

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FreeBSD Collaborating With AMD, NetBSD 10.0 Release & Other BSD Highlights Of 2024

While predominantly covering Linux-related news and Linux benchmarking at Phoronix, the BSDs hold a special spot. Here's a look back at some of the most exciting BSD milestones and FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD / DragonFlyBSD project news of 2024...

2024-12-31 06:15

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Xfce 4.20, COSMIC Alpha & LXQt 2 Led Alternative Open-Source Desktops In 2024

In addition to all the GNOME advancements and KDE excitement with shipping Plasma 6 this year, other alternative open-source desktop environments enjoyed much success too this year... System76's Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment for their Pop!_OS L...

2024-12-30 20:25

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Deadline Scheduling Policy Being Experimented With For Linux Graphics Drivers

Tvrtko Ursulin with Igalia sent out a "request for comments" patch series today working on a deadline scheduling policy for the DRM scheduler that is used across different Direct Rendering Manager kernel graphics drivers...

2024-12-30 15:04

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Intel's Linux Performance Optimizations Continue Paying Off For AMD EPYC

As part of my end-of-year benchmarking and various historical comparisons, over the holidays I was curious to take a look at how the mature AMD EPYC 9004 "Genoa" performance has evolved over the past two years under Linux. Going off benchmarks I ran ba...

2024-12-30 12:30

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Cloudflare Makes Open-Source h3i For HTTP/3 Testing & Debugging

Cloudflare is ending 2024 by announcing a new open-source project: h3i for low-level HTTP/3 testing and debugging...

2024-12-30 11:27

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Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4

The open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver had a rather great year with a number of performance optimizations landing, on-time support for Intel Lunar Lake and Battlemage Xe2 graphics, early AMD RDNA4 support, multiple drivers having same-day Vulkan 1.4 s...

2024-12-30 09:00

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RadeonSI Driver Now Uses ACO By Default For Pre-RDNA GPUs

As a very interesting end-of-year change for Mesa 25.0, AMD is now using the ACO compiler by default for pre-GFX10 (before RDNA / Navi) GPUs with the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

2024-12-30 06:50

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Updated Serpent OS Alpha Brings Few Fixes To This Original Linux Distribution

Last week Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux distribution debuted in alpha form while kicking off the new week is updated install media to provide a few fixes for this original from-scratch Linux distribution...

2024-12-30 06:38

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AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator Now Supports Vulkan 1.4

AMD's GPUOpen team managed to squeeze in a new Vulkan Memory Allocator release into 2024. As a reminder this is a easy to use/integrate Vulkan memory allocation library for both Windows and Linux systems with hopes of making memory allocation and resou...

2024-12-30 06:26

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xxHash 0.8.3 Brings Runtime Vector Extension Handling For x86/x86_64

Meta's Yann Collet of Zstd fame is rounding out 2024 by releasing xxHash 0.8.3 as the newest update to this extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm. The xxHash fast hash algorithm pushes for RAM speed limits and with the v0.8.3 update brings mo...

2024-12-30 06:17

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Linux 6.13-rc5 Released To Cap Off Linus Torvalds' Birthday Week

The holiday between Christmas and New Year's is... Linus Torvalds' birthday on 28 December. Capping off the Linux creator's 55th birthday week is the Linux 6.13-rc5 kernel release...

2024-12-29 16:30

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KDE Amarok 3.2 Music Player Released With Initial Qt6/KF6 Support

Back in April was the release of the Amarok 3.0 music player for KDE after a six year hiatus and their first version ported to using the Qt5 toolkit and KDE Frameworks 5. Now in ending out 2024, the Amarok team has released an updated version of this o...

2024-12-29 16:00

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Benchmarking The AMD INVLPGB Linux Kernel Patches For Better Performance

Last weekend a Meta engineer posted Linux kernel patches to make use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction for broadcast TLB invalidation. The Linux kernel can in turn invalidate TLB entries on remote CPUs without needing to send IPIs and without having to wa...

2024-12-29 12:35

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Kdenlive Preparing For An Exciting 2025 With Background Removal Tool & More

The KDE app Kdenlive that is a very popular and featureful open-source video editor is preparing for an exciting 2025...

2024-12-29 10:15

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Faster USB Performance For xHCI DbC Coming With Linux 6.14 Plus A 10 Year Old Bug Fixed

Thanks to work from Intel engineers, the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle will feature faster USB xHCI DbC performance for debug performance and a few other missing xHCI bits being addressed. Plus there is a fix for a rare 10 year old USB bug report...

2024-12-29 09:45

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Ubuntu's Great Year From 24.04 LTS To Focusing More On Performance Optimizations

From my independent monitoring, Ubuntu Linux had a pretty great year. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS shipped and has been well received across enterprises, Canonical engineers have been focusing more on performance optimizations for Ubuntu, and there has been other ...

2024-12-29 07:01

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Fish Shell Outlines Their Successes & Challenges Going From C++ To Rust

Earlier this month the Fish Shell 4.0 went into beta with the C++ code ported to Rust. Now with most of the Fish Shell code transitioned to Rust, the project put out a blog post this weekend outlining the successes and challenges they have encountered ...

2024-12-29 06:53

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Apple DWI Backlight Linux Driver Updated For Various iPhones, iPods & iPads

While Linux 6.13 is introducing basic support for various Apple iPads and iPhones using A-series SoCs, the support is just that: basic. Various feature limitations remain for those dreaming over the prospects of running Linux on older Apple mobile devi...

2024-12-29 06:49

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Linux 6.13-rc5 To See Fix For Intel TDX CoCo VMs Potentially Leaking Decrypted Memory

The x86 fixes pull request was sent out this morning ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc5 kernel being released later today. Both x86 fixes this week pertain to Intel bits: a self-test issue on upcoming Intel FRED (Flexible Return and Event Delivery) systems an...

2024-12-29 06:24

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