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Linux 6.8 Brings Intel Lunar Lake Thunderbolt, New Qualcomm USB AltMode Mux Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 01/21/2024 - 21:34
Merged this week were the USB and Thunderbolt driver changes for the nearly-closed Linux 6.8 merge window...

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X Boasts Some Big AI Wins & More With Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Sun, 01/21/2024 - 10:42
For those on a new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series system at least, the recently released Linux 6.7 stable kernel is looking mighty good at least for the Threadripper 7980X when testing on the newly-launched System76 Thelio Major...

Serpent OS To Require x86_64-v2 CPUs While Offering x86_64-v3 Packages Too

Phoronix - Sat, 01/20/2024 - 22:06
Serpent OS as the latest Linux distribution project of well known developer Ikey Doherty is off to a great start for 2024. Following all their Rust infrastructure work last year, that infrastructure work has continued while also taking on new challenges for the new year...

Ceph Cluster Hits 1 TiB/s Using AMD EPYC Genoa + NVMe Drives

Phoronix - Sat, 01/20/2024 - 19:50
While the new PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs may feel fast with pushing 11~12k MB/s sequential reads and writes, a Ceph storage cluster has just broken the 1 TiB/s threshold...

LoongArch Lands Initial Rust Kernel Support For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Sat, 01/20/2024 - 19:43
Submitted and merged on Friday for the ongoing Linux 6.8 merge window were the LoongArch processor changes for this new kernel version. Most singificant for these Chinese processors is now supporting the Rust Linux kernel integration...

KDE Config File Lookups Now 13~16% Faster, More Fixes Ahead Of KDE Plasma 6.0

Phoronix - Sat, 01/20/2024 - 19:17
There's just over one month to go until the release of the KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop along with the new KDE Gear apps and KDE Frameworks 6. This week KDE Plasma 6.0 and KDE Gear applications have been branched...

Linux 6.8-rc1 Should Release On Schedule Tomorrow

Phoronix - Sat, 01/20/2024 - 19:05
Last weekend the Linux 6.8 merge window paused due to Linus Torvalds losing Internet connectivity and electricity. It lasted for the better part of the week but then managed to get back to work and now thankfully has been back online albeit with intermittent electrical issues following a brutal winter storm...

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