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Linux's New "Sheaves" Per-CPU Caching Layer Showing Massive Wins For AMD Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 09/13/2025 - 19:00
Earlier this week I wrote about Sheaves as an opt-in, per-CPU array-based caching layer likely coming for Linux 6.18. The sheaves patches have been queued into the "slab/for-next" Git branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel merge window. Patches posted now by Google are showing the Linux Sheaves code having a massive beneficial impact for large AMD systems...

Cloud Hypervisor Will Block AI Generated Code, Raises x86_64 VM Limit To 8,192 vCPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 09/13/2025 - 18:23
Cloud Hypervisor 48.0 is now available for this Intel-started, open-source and Rust-based VMM focused on modern cloud workloads. Cloud Hypervisor continues to tailor to Windows and Linux guests while emphasizing security and cloud-native workloads...

62 Patches Posted For Stripping Classic Initrd Support From The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 09/13/2025 - 18:12
Last month I wrote about initrd support potentially being on its way out of the Linux kernel. For years Linux developers have wanted to phase out the classic initial RAM disk support from the Linux kernel and it looks like that day may finally be near with patches having been posted for removing the support...

libadwaita 1.8 Released Ahead Of GNOME 49

Phoronix - Sat, 09/13/2025 - 17:55
Ahead of the GNOME 49 stable release expected on Wednesday, libadwaita 1.8 released this week to incorporate all the enhancements made over the past six months to this GTK4 library that provides GNOME-specific widgets and features...

Wine Staging 10.15 Adds Patch For A Five Year Old Bug, 300 Patches In Total Atop Wine

Phoronix - Sat, 09/13/2025 - 17:42
Following yesterday's release of the bi-weekly Wine 10.15 development release, Wine-Staging 10.15 is out with 300 patches atop the upstream Wine codebase...

Intel Loses Another Prominent Linux Engineer - Now Going To NVIDIA

Phoronix - Sat, 09/13/2025 - 08:18
In the past few months at Intel between layoffs / corporate reorganizations and some deciding to pursue job opportunities elsewhere, there have been unfortunate impacts to their Linux engineering resources. Intel over the summer lost some prominent Linux engineering talent and in turn has even led to upstream Linux drivers being orphaned along with other driver maintainers departing and various other staffing changes. Unfortunate for Intel, another notable Linux name has left the company...

Wine 10.15 Released With Initial NTSYNC Bits, Unicode 17.0 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 09/13/2025 - 04:06
Wine 10.15 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux as well as powering Valve's Proton for Steam Play...

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