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Ubuntu 25.10 Planning To Use Dracut By Default

Phoronix - Fri, 03/07/2025 - 01:00
For the past number of months there has been talk in the Ubuntu developer space around replacing initramfs-tools with Dracut for handling initrd generation. While there has been progress in switching to Dracut, they aren't over the finish line yet and not until Ubuntu 25.10 are they planning to use Dracut by default...

Meta's eBPF-Powered Strobelight Software Reduced CPU Cycles By 20%

Phoronix - Fri, 03/07/2025 - 00:41
Adding to the excitement around the possibilities provided by the in-kernel eBPF Linux tech, Meta shared that their Strobelight software they are working on open-sourcing for profiling across servers has yielded a 20% reduction in CPU cycles and in turn a 10-20% reduction in the number of required servers for Meta’s top services...

SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Linux Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 22:10
SiFive recently sent over a review sample of the much anticipated HiFive Premier P550 developer board, their newest RISC-V creation featuring four RISC-V cores, Imagination AXM-8-256 integrated GPU, Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe x16 slot, and 16GB or 32GB of RAM. The HiFive Premier P550 is a modern RISC-V developer board capable of desktop uses, developer build boxes, and similar with pricing starting out at $399 USD. Here is a look at the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 as well as comparison benchmarks of this RISC-V board to the popular Raspberry Pi single board computers.

PipeWire 1.4 Released With MIDI 2.0 Support & Other New Features

Phoronix - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 21:40
Wim Taymans of Red Hat today released PipeWire 1.4 as the newest major update for this leading open-source software to replace PulseAudio, JACK, and other solutions on the modern Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams in a very excellent way...

Blender's Vulkan Renderer Is Making Great Progress To Production Readiness This Year

Phoronix - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 20:00
With the release of Blender 4.3 last November an experimental Vulkan back-end was added and it continues to be improved upon for modernizing this 3D creation suite for digital artists and serving a variety of other purposes. The upcoming Blender 4.4 release will further refine the Vulkan support while later in the year it should be reaching production readiness...

FreeBSD Continues Working On 802.11n/802.11ac WiFi & Other Laptop Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 19:46
The FreeBSD Foundation paired with resources committed by AMD, Dell, and Framework are working to improve FreeBSD laptop support. In recent months there have been FreeBSD development efforts to improve the power management support with modern laptops as well as a strong focus on enhancing the WiFi driver support. A status update was issued yesterday for highlighting the latest FreeBSD laptops efforts...

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