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GNOME Now Has A Second Core App Written In TypeScript

Phoronix - Sat, 04/12/2025 - 08:35
GNOME 48 made Decibels the desktop's official audio player and in doing so also became the first GNOME core application written in the TypeScript porting language. There's now a second core app for GNOME written in TypeScript...

AMD Releases ROCm 6.4 Without Any Official RDNA4 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/12/2025 - 03:01
After several ROCm 6.3 point releases, AMD today rolled out ROCm 6.4 as the next update to their open-source GPU/accelerator compute stack and ahead of their big Advancing AI event in June where they will talk about future ROCm work...

Running Linux 6.15 vs. 6.14 Performance With The AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360

Phoronix - Sat, 04/12/2025 - 01:42
So far my testing this week of the Linux 6.15 kernel in its early, post-RC1 state has been going well. No major upsets, yet to uncover any significant performance regressions, and overall has been going smoothly with the many new features/changes in Linux 6.15...

Intel Preps VRR Refactoring For Linux 6.16, More Xe3 Panther Lake Display Enablement

Phoronix - Fri, 04/11/2025 - 23:24
Intel graphics driver engineers today sent out their first batch of feature updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of the next Linux 6.16 kernel cycle...

Ubuntu 25.04 vs. Fedora Workstation 42 Performance On AMD Strix Point

Phoronix - Fri, 04/11/2025 - 21:00
With both Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 releasing this month you may be curious how these two Linux distributions are competing for performance. Well, it's a very tight race for common Intel/AMD x86_64 hardware. In this article are some benchmarks looking at clean installs of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42 on AMD Strix Point.

OpenVPN DCO Driver For The Linux Kernel Revised A 25th Time To Boost VPN Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 04/11/2025 - 20:42
For those relying on OpenVPN for your virtual private networking (VPN) needs, one of the most exciting innovations in recent times besides transitioning to the WireGuard alternative is the OpenVPN DCO kernel driver. This "data channel offload" driver has the potential to provide significant performance advantages over the current OpenVPN performance...

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