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Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20%

Phoronix - Sun, 06/22/2025 - 21:27
While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a 20% performance boost. Ubuntu maker Canonical in cooperation with Intel is preparing to disable these security mitigations in the Ubuntu packages in order to recoup this lost performance...

3mdeb Carries Out Experimental Port Of AMD OpenSIL To Zen 1 Platform

Phoronix - Sun, 06/22/2025 - 18:55
The 3mdeb firmware consulting firm recently hosted another one of their virtual events about open-source firmware and beer. There they talked about AMD's ongoing work around OpenSIL for open-source CPU silicon initialization. In addition, they shared work on an experimental port of OpenSIL back to Zen 1 processors...

KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland

Phoronix - Sun, 06/22/2025 - 03:24
Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma's intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 support continues to be maintained but eventually it will go away. Nate Graham also noted around 73% of KDE Plasma 6 users are already using the Wayland session...

Ubuntu 25.10 Planning To Raise RISC-V Support Baseline To RVA23 Profile

Phoronix - Sat, 06/21/2025 - 18:55
Ahead of the all-important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle, Canonical is looking to raise the required RISC-V ISA baseline for its Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year...

GNOME Fixes Years-Old Bug Of Trash Not Always Being Properly Emptied

Phoronix - Sat, 06/21/2025 - 18:31
This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue that outlines some UI progress made as well as addressing an aging GNOME bug that could result in not all files/directories being properly removed when emptying the Trash from the GNOME desktop...

XLibre 25.0 Released As Inaugural Version Of X.Org Server Fork

Phoronix - Sat, 06/21/2025 - 18:18
XLibre 25.0 was just released as the first tagged release of this recent X.Org Server fork...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Is Looking To Be In Good Shape, Fewer Bugs

Phoronix - Sat, 06/21/2025 - 18:04
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly blog post summarizing all of the interesting KDE Plasma developments for the past week. Notable this week was the debut of Plasma 6.4 stable and from early user feedback appears to be in good shape...

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