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Ghostbusters - Linux 5.10 To Bring Rewritten Spectre Mitigations For 64-bit ARM

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 03:00
Linux 5.10 is set to bring a major rework to the Spectre mitigation handling for the 64-bit ARM architecture...

Another Kernel Optimization Being Worked On That Can Help IO_uring Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 01:36
It's always great starting off a new month seeing new work on low-level kernel optimizations...

Dell XPS With Intel Tiger Lake + Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Goes On Sale - Benchmarks Coming

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 23:00
When Intel announced 11th Gen "Tiger Lake" last month it wasn't clear how long it would be until seeing systems actually appear with these new processors. Fortunately, the new Dell XPS systems with Tiger Lake and Intel EVO certification are on sale beginning today with shipping dates reported to be later this month...

Mesa's Vulkan Software Implementation Now Known as Lavapipe

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 19:30
Mesa's Vulkan software implementation built atop LLVMpipe was developed as Vallium (Vulkan + Gallium3D) but has been renamed to Lavapipe within Mesa 20.3...

Systemd Startup For KDE Plasma 5.21 Has Helped Uncover Bugs, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 18:38
While Plasma 5.20 isn't shipping until later this month, already for Plasma 5.21 down the pipe is a big change and that is the optional support for systemd starting up of the Plasma session. This can lead to faster startup/load times and other improvements while even the process of bringing up the systemd support helped uncover other KDE bugs...

Linux 5.9 Regression, NVIDIA RTX 30, GNOME 40 & Microsoft Made For A Fun September

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 18:22
From new hardware releases to figuring out that Linux 5.9 performance regression to interesting open-source software advancements, September was an interesting trek with 259 original articles on the site and another 15 featured articles / multi-page Linux hardware reviews...

Intel Releases OpenCL Intercept Layer 3.0

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 18:01
Following yesterday's release of the finalized OpenCL 3.0 specification, open-source Intel developers have released OpenCL Intercept Layer 3.0...

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