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Cloud Hypervisor 49 Released With AArch64 + Microsoft Hyper-V Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 11/09/2025 - 19:03
For what began as an Intel open-source project focused on delivering a modern VMM for cloud workloads and written in Rust is seeing increasingly more exposure on AArch64 and Microsoft Windows platforms. In fact, Intel remains largely inactive now with Cloud Hypervisor after their lead maintainer left the company last year and has now been one year since seeing any significant contributions from Intel to this open-source project...

SquashFS Tools 4.7.3 Brings Optimizations For As Much As "1500 Times" Speed Improvement

Phoronix - Sun, 11/09/2025 - 09:51
For those dealing with SquashFS compressed, read-only file-systems, a new version of the user-space tools were released this week...

Linux 6.18-rc5 To Cut Down Performance Regression Observed On IBM POWER CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 11/09/2025 - 03:47
Merged today ahead of the Linux 6.18-rc5 kernel due out on Sunday is a partial fix for a performance regression observed on IBM POWER hardware...

Ryzen AI Software 1.6.1 Advertises Linux Support

Phoronix - Sat, 11/08/2025 - 23:12
Ryzen AI Software as AMD's collection of tools and libraries for AI inferencing on AMD Ryzen AI class PCs has Linux support with its newest point release. Though this "early access" Linux support is restricted to registered AMD customers...

AMD Sends Out Initial GNU Binutils Patch For AMD Zen 6 - Confirms New AVX-512 Features

Phoronix - Sat, 11/08/2025 - 20:50
AMD has begun their open-source compiler enablement upstreaming effort for Zen 6 processors! The first "Znver6" patch was sent out on Friday in preparing for new instructions to be found with these next-generation AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors...

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