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Crucial 2 x 16GB DDR5-5200 / DDR5-5600

Phoronix - Thu, 03/09/2023 - 02:00
Micron recently sent over their latest Crucial 2 x 16GB DDR5-5200 and DDR5-5600 memory kits for testing with these low cost options for running with the latest Intel Alder Lake / Raptor Lake and AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors. Here's a look at how these affordable DDR5 memory options are performing and a look at the Linux workloads that can benefit from higher frequency memory.

Ubuntu Announces Official Support For The PolarFire SoC FPGA Icicle Kit RISC-V Board

Phoronix - Wed, 03/08/2023 - 23:45
Following work bringing Ubuntu Linux to the RISC-V boards like the StarFive VisionFive 2, LicheeRV, Nezha, and others, Canonical today announced they have published an optimized RISC-V image for the Microchip PolarFire SoC FPGA powered "Icicle Kit" development board...

Samba 4.18 Released With Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 03/08/2023 - 21:54
Samba 4.18 is out today as the popular open-source implementation of the SMB networking protocol that allows for file and print service interoperability with Microsoft Windows systems in an Active Directory (AD) environment...

Wayland Clients Can Now Survive Qt Wayland Crashes / Compositor Restarts

Phoronix - Wed, 03/08/2023 - 21:24
A change merged to Qt this week can allow for Wayland clients to survive compositor restarts, such as when the compositor crashes...

IOCB_NOWAIT For Linux Pipes Yields 10~23x Performance Improvement

Phoronix - Wed, 03/08/2023 - 20:05
In wanting to avoid waiting for pipes via the IOCB_NOWAIT option in order to further enhance IO_uring performance, Jens Axboe has implemented said functionality and in a simple test is seeing 10x to 23x performance improvements...

RADV Enables Variable Rate Shading For RDNA3, RadeonSI Lands More Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 03/08/2023 - 19:52
If you are an AMD Radeon RX 7900 series "RDNA3" GPU owner and don't mind running bleeding-edge open-source graphics driver code, you'll want to pull down today's Mesa 23.1-devel Git snapshot...

Vanilla OS 2.0 Shifting From Ubuntu Base To Debian Sid

Phoronix - Wed, 03/08/2023 - 19:39
One of the newer Linux distributions that has been making waves is Vanilla OS as an immutable and atomic version of Ubuntu Linux that aims to provide a pleasant Linux desktop experience, close to upstream, and is augmented by the growing selection of Flatpak packages. Now though the project has decided to move from Ubuntu Linux as its base over to Debian Sid...

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