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F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support & Per-File Compression For Linux 6.9

Phoronix - 5 hours 39 min ago
Merged today were all the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel...

XWayland Nukes The NVIDIA EGLStream Backend

Phoronix - 10 hours 3 min ago
XWayland had targeted both the Generic Buffer Management (GBM) and EGLStream APIs due to NVIDIA not supporting GBM like all of the other Linux drivers. But now that the NVIDIA proprietary Linux graphics driver has been boasting GBM support and advancing with their Wayland platform support in general, XWayland is letting go of the EGLStream mess...

Firefox 124 Now Available With Screen Wake Lock API

Phoronix - 13 hours 51 min ago
The Firefox 124.0 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement tomorrow...

LLVM Clang Shows Off Great Performance Advantage On NVIDIA GH200's Neoverse-V2 Cores

Phoronix - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 23:20
With my recent NVIDIA GH200 Grace CPU benchmarks carried out remotely via GPTshop.ai, besides looking at areas like the 64K kernel page size performance benefits I also ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the performance difference when the binaries were generated by LLVM Clang rather than the default GCC compiler on Ubuntu Linux. This article shows off the performance difference for the 72-core Neoverse-V2 server/HPC processor when leveraging LLVM Clang rather than the GNU Compiler Collection.

CoreCtrl 1.4 Brings Radeon RX 7000 Series Fan Curve Controls, Intel CPU Temperatures

Phoronix - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 22:12
CoreCtrl 1.4 was released this weekend as the newest version of this open-source, independently-developed GUI utility for managing CPU and GPU performance characteristics and power/thermal monitoring under Linux, among other capabilities. CoreCtrl does a good job at offering basic GUI-driven controls and monitoring for CPUs and GPUs in the absence of any official GUI solutions by the likes of AMD and Intel...

Rust Coreutils & Reproducible Builds Receives Funding From The Sovereign Tech Fund

Phoronix - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 21:43
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund continues investing significant sums of money for important open-source projects. Among the latest projects receiving funding from the STF are the Rust-written Coreutils implementation and Reproducible Builds...

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