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Meson 1.10 Build System Adds OS/2 Support, Experimental C++ "import std"

Phoronix - Tue, 12/09/2025 - 02:22
Meson 1.10 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular cross-platform build system...

Firefox 146 Now Available With Native Fractional Scaling On Wayland

Phoronix - Tue, 12/09/2025 - 00:24
The Mozilla Firefox 146.0 release binaries are now available with a very exciting improvement for Linux users relying on Wayland...

Intel Arc B580 vs. AMD Radeon RX 9000 vs. NVIDIA RTX 50 Series For Llama.cpp Vulkan Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 12/08/2025 - 23:50
Recently there were Phoronix benchmarks looking at the Intel Battlemage GPU compute performance since last year when the Arc B580 graphics card launched as well as the OpenGL and Vulkan graphics performance for the B580 on Linux since launch. There was much progress on the open-source Intel Linux graphics drivers at large this year but especially for Battlemage. Following that a Phoronix Premium reader asked about seeing some fresh Llama.cpp AI benchmarks with its Vulkan back-end now for the Arc B580 compared to competing AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards. Here are those benchmarks as requested.

Early Benchmarks Of Linux 6.19 Git Raising Some Concerns

Phoronix - Mon, 12/08/2025 - 22:50
While just half-way through the Linux 6.19 merge window, over the weekend I began running some benchmarks of the current Linux 6.19 Git state compared to Linux 6.18 LTS stable. There are some minor performance improvements to note in a few of the tests on the first system I tested but also some regressions at this very early pre-RC1 state of the Linux 6.19 kernel...

AMD Working On Push-Based Load Balancing For Linux To Further Enhance Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 12/08/2025 - 22:27
One of the new Linux engineering initiatives out of AMD is working to further enhance Linux performance on today's large core count systems by introducing push-based load balancing...

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