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OpenZFS 2.2.2 & OpenZFS 2.1.14 Released To Fix Data Corruption Issue

Phoronix - Fri, 12/01/2023 - 13:00
Following a rare but nasty data corruption issue, OpenZFS 2.2.2 and OpenZFS 2.1.14 were released this evening to address the problem...

AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of P-State Preferred Core Patches For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 12/01/2023 - 02:28
For the past number of months AMD has been actively working on enabling AMD P-State Preferred Core functionality for Linux so that their modern processors can communicate "preferred" cores to the Linux kernel scheduler for making better decisions around task placement and ultimately ensuring best performance of Ryzen and EPYC processors running on Linux. This week they are up to their 11th take on these kernel patches...

Jolla's Former Management Acquires The Business

Phoronix - Fri, 12/01/2023 - 02:20
It's been a number of years since many in the Linux/open-source space have been excited by the Jolla smartphone efforts with their failed smartphone/tablet devices and more recently focusing their Linux-based Sailfish OS devices for running on existing devices. The latest chapter in Jolla is the former management acquiring the Jolla business...

Ubuntu 23.10 Showing Nice Performance Improvements On Ampere Altra Max

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 23:30
Gigabyte (Giga Computing) recently sent over their G242-P36 HPC/AI Arm server platform built for Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max processors. This 2U server platform can accommodate up to four graphics cards or a mix of GPUs and DPUs if so desired, for maxing out the AI possibilities on Arm. I'll have up a full review on the G242-P36 soon while in this article is a look at the direction of the Ubuntu Server Arm performance from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to now with Ubuntu 23.10 ahead of the important Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cycle.

Wine Wayland Driver's Vulkan Support Is Now Usable

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 23:16
The third and final part of the Vulkan enablement code for allowing Vulkan API graphics use within the Wine Wayland driver has been merged to Wine Git...

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