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systemd 258-rc2 Released In Preparing For H2'2025 Linux Distributions

Phoronix - Wed, 08/06/2025 - 09:00
Released two weeks ago was systemd 258-rc1 with many changes throughout its massive codebase. Out today is a second release candidate of the forthcoming systemd 258...

Rust Making Progress On Its 2025 Project Goals

Phoronix - Wed, 08/06/2025 - 08:35
The Rust project put out a status update concerning its 2025 project goals to summarize what has been accomplished during the first half of the year...

PCI Express 8.0 Aims For 256 GT/s In 2028

Phoronix - Wed, 08/06/2025 - 05:01
The PCI-SIG announced today the PCI Express 8.0 specification due out in 2028 will double the data of the PCI Express 7.0 specification, taking it to 256 GT/s...

Debian 13 Showing 13% Performance Improvement Over Debian 12 On AMD EPYC

Phoronix - Wed, 08/06/2025 - 00:00
If all goes according to plan Debian 13.0 will be released this weekend. Already in its effectively final state aside from any last minute fixes, I've begun running Debian 13 testing builds on various systems in the lab to great success. With two years since Debian 12, the new software packages of Debian 13 help in delivering better performance especially on modern systems. Here is a look at Debian 12 versus Debian 13 performance on an AMD EPYC server across 130 benchmarks. Coincidentally, Debian 13 is coming in at 13% faster than Debian 12.

exFAT Fixes Significant Random Write Performance Regression With Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Tue, 08/05/2025 - 23:00
Following yesterday's F2FS pull request, the exFAT file-system updates were sent out and since merged for the ongoing Linux 6.17 kernel merge window...

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