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Linux 7.1 Will Power Off The System By Default If A Fatal ACPI Error Occurs

Phoronix - 2 hours 48 min ago
An important default kernel behavior change worth noting in advance for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is that the system will attempt to power-off automatically if encountering any fatal ACPI errors. Up to now the Linux kernel has just logged ACPI fatal errors...

Linux 7.0 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains For Databases In Small AMD EPYC Servers

Phoronix - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 23:20
Last week with my ongoing testing of the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel I found nice performance improvements for PostgreSQL and other workloads when testing on a 128-core AMD EPYC 9755 "Turin" server. Curious if those wins were due to optimizations focused on better scalability with today's "big" servers, I also ran some comparison Linux 7.0 benchmarks on the smaller AMD EPYC 4005 class servers too. Some nice wins carried over...

Framework 16 Gen1 Seeing Coreboot + AMD openSIL Port, Framework 13 AMD Gen1 To Follow

Phoronix - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 22:20
Work is underway by 9elements on porting Coreboot plus AMD openSIL to the first-generation Ryzen 7000 series Framework 16 laptop and is expected to be followed by a similar port to the Framework 13 Gen1 laptop too...

New Zlib-rs Delivers More Performance With AVX-512 VNNI Adler32 Implementation

Phoronix - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 21:19
Zlib-rs as the Rust programming language implementation of Zlib from the Trifetca Tech Foundation is out with a shiny new release (actually, releases) today...

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