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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Enters Beta With Many New Features & Updates

The first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) was released on Wednesday with a wide variety of new/updated packages, new features, and other changes over RHEL 9...

2024-11-14 10:26

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AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver To Be Merged For Linux 6.13

Last month AMD Linux engineers posted patches for a 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for Linux that allows the user to communicate their cache vs. frequency preference depending upon workload and for the 3D V-Cache processors where some CCDs have the larger...

2024-11-14 08:39

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Linux 6.13 To Tune Intel Granite Rapids For Better Performance Out-Of-The-Box

A patch queued yesterday ino the Linux power management subsystem's "linux-next" branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window will tune Intel Xeon Granite Rapids processors for better performance out-of-the-box...

2024-11-14 07:02

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Linux To Allow Disabling TPM PCR Integrity Protection Due To Performance Bottleneck

Linux 6.10 introduced TPM bus encryption and integrity protection for enhancing the Trusted Platform Module support to protect against interposers from compromising them with TPM sniffing attacks. There is now a new option being added to opt-out of thi...

2024-11-14 06:35

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Intel Touch Host Controller "THC" Driver Support Being Worked On For Linux

The newest Linux driver being developed by Intel is for the Touch Host Controller (THC) as a new high performance input tech for enhancing touch screen, touch pad, and stylus input handling...

2024-11-14 06:20

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Bcachefs Squeezes More Fixes Into Linux 6.12

Ahead of the expected final Linux 6.12 stable kernel release this weekend, a last round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted today for this next kernel version...

2024-11-14 06:07

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AMD Developing Next-Gen Fortran Compiler Based On Flang, Optimized For AMD GPUs

AMD today went public with details on the "AMD Next-Gen Fortran Compiler" as a new Fortran compiler they are working on based on LLVM's Flang...

2024-11-13 19:15

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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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