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Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Linux Performance Up ~9% One Year Later At ~85% Power Use

Phoronix - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 23:45
It's been just over one year now since the launch of the Core Ultra 9 285K and other Arrow Lake desktop processors. For those that may be considering an Arrow Lake CPU this holiday season for a Linux desktop or just curious how the power and performance has evolved one year later, here are some leading-edge benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K compared to the launch-day performance last October.

KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive In Dropping X11 Session Support

Phoronix - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 23:34
KDE developers announced they are going "all-in on a Wayland future" and with the Plasma 6.8 desktop it will become Wayland-exclusive. The Plasma X11 session is going away...

Fedora SIG Proposed To Improve Production Stability

Phoronix - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 22:24
A Fedora special interest group is being proposed to help improve production stability of Fedora Linux and better handling incident management when problems do arise...

Urgent ACPI Revert For Linux 6.18 To Deal With Some Hardware Crashing

Phoronix - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 21:31
The Linux 6.18 kernel is anticipated for release this coming Sunday while this week a last-minute crisis was averted following reports of a kernel crash from recent ACPI code changes...

NVIDIA Is Interested In Helping Bring Vulkan Video To Chrome

Phoronix - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 19:34
NVIDIA engineers are interested in helping Google bring Vulkan Video accelerated GPU video decoding to the Chrome/Chromium web browser...

Linux 6.19 Overhauling The Intel TDX Locking Code For KVM

Phoronix - Wed, 11/26/2025 - 19:20
Sean Christopherson of Google sent out the pull requests to the KVM tree of the various x86_64-related areas of virtualization he oversees. With these updates ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window there is a significant overhaul of Intel's Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) code to address various outstanding problems...

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