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Linux 6.16 To Introduce Block Write Streams For NVMe Flexible Data Placement "FDP"

Wed, 05/07/2025 - 18:31
Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe has queued up a set of patches being worked on the past number of months around block write streams for making use of NVMe SSDs supporting the NVMe Flexible Data Placement (FDP) specification...

Intel Introducing QAT "GEN6" Driver To The Linux Kernel

Wed, 05/07/2025 - 18:12
Intel has readied a new "qat_6xxx" driver for the Linux kernel for supporting QAT GEN6 devices with QuickAssist Technology. QAT GEN6 will presumably be found with upcoming Xeon 6 Clearwater Forest and Diamond Rapids processors while the Linux kernel driver should be introduced for Linux 6.16...

Intel P-State Energy Aware Scheduling May Be Ready For Lunar Lake

Wed, 05/07/2025 - 17:55
Going back to last year there have been patches for adapting the Intel P-State Linux driver with support for Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) as what began as an Arm big.LITTLE feature but since being explored for use by the Intel P-State driver for hybrid CPUs without SMT which for the moment means Lunar Lake SoCs. A new version of the patches were posted on Tuesday and likely to be the last refinement to this patch series...

Valve Releases Updated Proton 10.0 Beta For Testing

Wed, 05/07/2025 - 03:47
Last week Valve introduced Proton 10.0 beta as the newest version of their Wine-derived software for Steam Play that enables countless Windows games to run well for Linux gamers on the desktop and with the extremely popular Steam Deck. Out today is another Proton 10.0 beta update with some additional bug and regression fixes over what was shipped last week...

RISC-V LLVM Scheduler Tuning For SpacemiT-X60 On Clang Yields 4~18% Speedups

Wed, 05/07/2025 - 03:34
The SpacemiT-X60 RISC-V SoC can enjoy some very healthy performance improvements with scheduler definitions now merged for the LLVM/Clang 21 compiler...

Microsoft Welcomes Fedora Linux As An Official WSL Distro

Wed, 05/07/2025 - 00:12
Microsoft announced today that Fedora Linux is now treated as an official distribution within their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) confines...

Ampere Computing Soft Announces AmpereOne M With 12 Channel DDR5 Memory

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 23:34
Ampere Computing last year talked up AmpereOne M for 12-channel DDR5 memory and up to 192 cores up from the 8-channel DDR5 memory found with the initial AmpereOne processors. They said at the time AmpereOne M would be shipping in Q4-2024. Now half way into 2025, it looks like they quietly announced the AmpereOne M processors...

Kurchu Tool Taking Shape For Assembling Fedora / CentOS Linux Distro ISOs

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 23:05
As an alternative to the likes of the Pungi tool, Kurchu is a newer project within the CentOS/Fedora space for assembling content collections or ISO images of Linux distribution builds. Kurchu is already seeing use by the CentOS Hyperscale SIG for assembling their images while additional functionality continues to be worked on for those wanting to craft their own Fedora/CentOS install images...

Intel's Clear Linux Demonstrates Software Optimization Benefits On AMD EPYC 9005 Series

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 21:45
With the spring Linux distribution/OS updates upon us, in recent weeks I've looked at the Ubuntu 25.04 performance gains on AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" and also the performance of Fedora Server 42. Following that I expanded the scope of the Linux operating systems (distributions) benchmarks on the latest 5th Gen AMD EPYC server hardware. Here is a look at how the performance of the new Ubuntu and Fedora Linux releases compare to AlmaLinux and Intel's in-house Clear Linux distribution that tends to be at the forefront of open-source performance optimizations.

Ubuntu 25.10 Plans To Use sudo-rs By Default For Memory-Safe, Rust-Based sudo

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 20:30
With Ubuntu 25.10 Canonical is planning to make use of more Rust-written system components and so far most of that talk has been about transitioning to Rust Coreutils "uutils" in place of GNU Coreutils. It's also been firmed up today that Canonical is planning on using sudo-rs by default as a replacement to sudo...

PoCL 7.0 RC1 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On CPUs & Level Zero

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 20:18
PoCL 7.0 is on approach as the newest version of this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that began as a CPU-based OpenCL driver implementation but with time has added support for other back-ends from Intel Level Zero to NVIDIA PTX and AMD HSA...

Btrfs "CLEAR_FREE" Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.16

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 18:50
The Btrfs file-system looks like its new "CLEAR_FREE" feature will be ready to go for the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle...

Intel RAR TLB Invalidation Being Worked On For Linux - Alternative To AMD INVLPGB

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 18:32
Merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel was AMD INVLPGB support for broadcast TLB invalidation on recent Zen cores. AMD INVLPGB use by the Linux kernel can provide for some nice performance gains while now similar support for Intel processors is coming via a kernel patch series working on Intel RAR TLB invalidation support...

LVFS/Fwupd Talked Up For Linux Servers & Being What Customers Want

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 18:25
Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat was at the PremDay on-premise computing conference in Paris to talk up this open-source firmware updating solution and being what customers want. The presentation video and slides are now available for those needing additional material in helping sell your organization on the benefits of LVFS/Fwupd...

IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 Announced For Linux Servers Powered By Telum II

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 17:59
Last month IBM announced the z17 mainframe powered by Telum II processors and today they announced the IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 servers...

FEX 2505 Released With Many Fixes For Running x86_64 Binaries On Linux AArch64

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 04:51
FEX 2505 is out today as the newest version of this user-space software that enables running x86_64 binaries on ARM64/AArch64 Linux hosts with great speed that a number of games and applications are enjoying much success with this emulator...

Redox OS Seeing More Software Porting, Many Internal Improvements

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 02:25
The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS operating system has published their April 2025 status report to outline interesting changes made over the past several weeks to this innovative project...

21-Way Intel Core / AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop Comparison On Ubuntu 25.04

Mon, 05/05/2025 - 22:32
As part of fresh re-testing of existing laptops on-hand given the recent release of Ubuntu 25.04 and then also recent Linux reviews of some interesting models like the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Strix Point and the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition, I have been running a lot of Linux laptop benchmarks the past few weeks. I ended up taking things a bit further after those reviews and have now extended it to a 21-way laptop comparison of AMD Ryzen and Intel Core SoCs from the past few generations in looking at their performance on Ubuntu 25.04 across more than 200 benchmarks.

New Patches Aim To Modernize The Default Linux x86 Kernel Configuration

Mon, 05/05/2025 - 20:43
Longtime Linux kernel developer Ingo Molnar sent out a patch series this morning to enable additional kernel features by default for the Linux default configuration "defconfig" on x86-based kernels. The defconfig improvements aim to reflect modern Linux x86 kernel use with various features commonly being enabled by distribution vendor kernels and related improvements...

Vulkan API 1.4.314 Brings One New Extension In Working Toward Vulkan Roadmap 2026

Mon, 05/05/2025 - 19:00
Vulkan 1.4.314 is now available as the newest routine spec update for this high performance GPU graphics and compute API. With Vulkan 1.4.314 there are more early preparations toward Vulkan Roadmap 2026 in aiming for a baseline of high-end smartphones, computers, and more for next year...

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