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Qualcomm Packet Processing Engine "PPE" Going Upstream For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Fri, 08/29/2025 - 16:51
Recently queued into the Linux networking subsystem's net-next branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window is the Qualcomm PPE driver to support their Packet Processing Engine on select SoCs...

Genode OS 25.08 Introduces New Kernel Scheduler, Updates Linux Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 08/29/2025 - 16:32
Version 25.08 of the Genode OS Framework has been released for this open-source operating system framework designed for software safety and security...

Armbian 25.8.1 Brings Expanded Board Support, Linux 6.16 Option For Many Boards

Phoronix - Fri, 08/29/2025 - 16:14
Armbian 25.8.1 is now available as a significant update over the Armbian 25.5 release for this Debian-based Linux distribution focused on offering broad support for ARM64 and RISC-V single board computers as well as other devices...

OBS Studio 32 Beta Introduces A Plugin Manager, Hybrid MOV Support

Phoronix - Fri, 08/29/2025 - 15:59
Released overnight in beta form is OBS Studio 32.0, the next feature release for this widely-used, open-source and cross-platform application for desktop streaming/recording...

Linux 6.17 Showing Off Some Nice Gains For 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 08/29/2025 - 04:37
Earlier this week I provided benchmarks looking at the Linux 5.15 LTS through Linux 6.17 Git kernel performance using the latest stable and development kernels compared to the Long Term Support (LTS) kernels over the past four years. For having hardware support back to Linux 5.15 I was using an AMD EPYC Milan-X server. In those benchmarks there were some nice gains and even from Linux 6.16 to 6.17 Git was around a 3% geo mean improvement. So I was curious to run some benchmarks on the latest-generation AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors to see if there was similar uplift there...

TrueNAS 25.10 Beta Brings Installation Improvements, NVIDIA Blackwell Support

Phoronix - Fri, 08/29/2025 - 04:21
The engineers over at iXsystems announced today the beta release of TrueNAS 25.10 "Goldeneye" as the latest iteration of this formerly BSD-based OS that has transitioned to making use of the Linux kernel while unifying both the TrueNAS CORE and SCALE offerings...

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