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An Exciting Day With More Performance Optimizations Merged For RADV In Mesa 26.0  Phoronix

Mesa 26.0 was due to be branched last week and in turn start its feature freeze but ended up being pushed back to tomorrow (21 January) to allow some lingering features to land. It's been beneficial for the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" with several interesting merge requests having landed in time for Mesa 26.0...

Intel Linux engineers have been working on enhancing the NVMe storage performance with today's high core count processors. Due to situations where multiple CPUs could end up sharing the same NVMe IRQ(s), performance penalties can arise if the IRQ affinity and the CPU's cluster do not align. There is a pending patch to address this situation. A 15% performance improvement was reported with the pending patch...

New Linux Patch Improved NVMe Performance +15% With CPU Cluster-Aware Handling  Phoronix

Slimbook Executive: 14-inch laptop with up to 128GB RAM, QHD screen and Windows Linux dual boot launches  Notebookcheck

I don't install apps on my Linux OS anymore, and I love it  XDA

Fedora-based Korora 24 'Sheldon' Linux distro now available -- 32-bit ISO dead  BetaNews

It's typically rare these days for the ATA subsystem updates in the Linux kernel to contain anything really noteworthy. But today some important fixes were merged for the ATA code to deal with a reported power management regression affecting the past number of Linux kernel releases over the last year. ATAPI devices with dummy ports weren't hitting their low-power state and in turn preventing the CPU from reaching low-power C-states but thankfully that is now resolved with this code...

Linux 6.19 ATA Fixes Address Power Management Regression For The Past Year  Phoronix

Mozilla starts offering RPMs of Firefox Nightly  theregister.com

The Windows Interface You Didn’t Like, For Linux  Hackaday

Following the December launch of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and the first major COSMIC desktop release, System76 software engineers have continued making improvements to their Rust-based desktop environment...

Remember VoidLink, the cloud-targeting Linux malware? An AI agent wrote it  theregister.com

Five Free Linux Terminal File Managers Gain Momentum  findarticles.com

KDE Plasma could get a VR desktop mode on Linux  How-To Geek

Deploying vLLM for LLM inference and serving on NVIDIA hardware can be as easy as pip3 install vllm. Beautifully simple just as many of the AI/LLM Python libraries can deploy straight-away and typically "just work" on NVIDIA. Running vLLM atop AMD Radeon/Instinct hardware though has traditionally meant either compiling vLLM from source yourself or AMD's recommended approach of using Docker containers that contain pre-built versions of vLLM. Finally there is now a blessed Python wheel for making it easier to install vLLM without Docker and leveraging ROCm...

5 Linux file managers to try when your GUI just won't do - they're all free  ZDNET

Following recent discussions over AI contributions to the LLVM open-source compiler project, they have come to an agreement on allowing AI/tool-assisted contributions but that there must be a human involved that is first looking over the code before opening any pull request and similar. Strictly AI-driven contributions without any human vetting will not be permitted...

Omarchy Linux Simplifies Hyprland Setup  findarticles.com

Linux Benchmarking Transformed! – CapFrameX is coming to Linux  OC3D