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Ubuntu 23.10 Beta Released - Powered By Linux 6.5, GNOME 45 & Other Updates

Phoronix - Fri, 09/22/2023 - 17:54
The beta images of the Ubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" release are now available for testing ahead of the planned official release in October...

Reminder: The 2023 Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest/Autumn Special

Phoronix - Fri, 09/22/2023 - 17:46
This is just a friendly reminder that if you wish to go ad-free on this site while supporting the ongoing Linux operations at Phoronix, enjoy native dark mode, and view multi-page articles on a single page, there remains an ongoing "Oktoberfest" sale for our Phoronix Premium subscription service...

Cloud Hypervisor 35 Released With Few New Features & Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 09/22/2023 - 17:32
Cloud Hypervisor 35 was released on Thursday for this open-source, Rust-based VMM that was originally started by Intel software engineers before evolving into a multi-vendor initiative for secure and cloud focused workloads...

AMD's GPUOpen Releases Updated RGP, RGA & RMV Tools For Developers

Phoronix - Fri, 09/22/2023 - 07:49
AMD's GPUOpen team today released a number of updated components for graphics application/engine developers...

Linux 6.5 With AMD P-State EPP Default Brings Performance & Power Efficiency Benefits For Ryzen Servers

Phoronix - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 21:25
With the new Linux 6.5 kernel stable series one of the many new features is defaulting to the AMD P-State driver with the EPP/active mode compared to the long-used default of the ACPI CPUFreq driver. As shown in various Phoronix articles this can help with the mobile/desktop performance with this new default change while this article is looking at the Ryzen for server benefits too.

PuzzleFS Continues Striving To Be The Best File-System For Containers

Phoronix - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 19:56
Amid all the recent chatter around Bcachefs working its way toward mainline and all the ongoing improvements to existing Linux file-systems, you may have forgotten about Puzzlefs as the new file-system aiming to be an optimal solution for containers and with a kernel driver written in the Rust programming language...

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