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Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Now Available With Initial HWE Stack

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2025 - 21:55
Following last week's delay due to a packaging mishap, Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is available today as the newest point release for this current Long Term Support version of Ubuntu Linux...

Linux Lazy Unmap Flush "LUF" Reducing TLB Shootdowns By 97%, Faster AI LLM Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2025 - 20:07
SK has been working on a Linux kernel feature dubbed Lazy Unmap Flush "LUF" to defer TLB flushes until folios have been unmapped and freed are eventually allocated again...

New Patches Would Make All Kernel Encryption/Decryption Faster On x86/x86_64 Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2025 - 19:37
On top of all the recent x86/x86_64 Linux kernel crypto improvements made recently by Google engineer Eric Biggers to better laverage AVX-512 and other modern x86 ISA features, a new patch-set posted today by Biggers would help make all x86/x86_64 kernel encryption/decryption at least slightly faster...

Debian Policy Updated With New Packaging Guidance & Updated Chinese Translations

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2025 - 19:25
The Debian Policy 4.7.1.0 is now available as the updated manual around policy requirements for the Debian distribution for packaging mandates, design issues, and other details to abide by for Debian developers...

GNOME Mutter Adds Debug Option To Override Multi-GPU Copy Mode

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2025 - 19:10
A new debug option was merged on Wednesday to Mutter Git ahead of the upcoming GNOME 48 release. This new debug option is to override the GPU copy mode handling for multi-GPU setups...

Zstd 1.5.7 Pushing Compression Performance Even Further

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2025 - 13:00
Zstandard 1.5.7 was released a short time ago as the newest update to this widely-used compression algorithm backed by Meta. Zstd 1.5.7 packs more than 500 commits, including new performance optimizations and other enhancements...

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