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Linux 6.15 Goes Very Heavy On Intel & AMD x86_64 CPU Changes

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 08:42
Merged today for the recently-opened Linux 6.15 merge window were all of the "x86/core" changes that are particularly heavy on new feature work for both Intel and AMD x86/x86_64 processors. This is easily quite one of the most significant Intel/AMD CPU set of updates in a given kernel cycle in quite some time...

XZ 5.8 Debuts As First Major Feature Release Since The Backdoor Disaster

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 02:33
XZ 5.8 is out today as the first notable feature release since last year's malicious backdoor in XZ 5.6 inserted by a then-co-maintainer of the project. XZ 5.6.2 was out last May while XZ 5.8.0 is now stable today for bringing new features to this lossless data compressor project...

MPV 0.40 Media Player Released With Wayland HDR Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 01:43
MPV 0.40 was just released as the newest version of this open-source media player derived from MPlayer/MPlayer2. With the MPV 0.40 release there is support for HDR videos on Wayland using the new color management protocol along with a variety of other new features...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux Gaming/Graphics Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 00:45
Earlier this month for launch-day there were NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU compute benchmarks. The graphics/gaming benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 5070 on Linux were held up by waiting for a new R570 Linux driver release with proper support for this new Blackwell graphics card. Last week that new Linux driver arrived in the form of the NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux build. That new NVIDIA Linux driver is working out great with the GeForce RTX 5070 Founder's Edition and in this article are some initial Linux gaming/graphics performance benchmarks for that new graphics card competing with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series.

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