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Bytedance Praises eBPF - Notes 10% Improvement In Network Throughput

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2025 - 21:30
Bytedance is praising eBPF as the in-kernel virtual machine for dynamic programs to help speed-up network packet processing, greater tracing and profiling abilities, and a wide-range of other purposes for these dynamic in-kernel programs. By tapping eBPF, Bytedance is reporting a 10% improvement to their networking throughput...

Mesa 25.0 Sees New Driver Code To Further Enhance RadeonSI + ACO

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2025 - 19:54
AMD Mesa driver guru Marek Olšák has landed a new set of 48 patches into Mesa 25.0-devel Git for refactoring various AMD-related driver code to work on improving the ACO compiler support within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Ubuntu's Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptop Support Enables Experimental Hardware Video Decode

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2025 - 19:28
Canonical has been maintaining experimental/testing ISOs of Ubuntu Linux for Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops. New ISOs for testing were recently published and allow enabling more features/functionality for these ARM laptops under Ubuntu...

Linux 6.14 NFS Adds Direct I/O With LOCALIO, Attribute Delegation Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2025 - 19:12
The Network File System (NFS) client and server changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window...

LLVM 20 Feature Development Wraps Up With AMX-AVX512, AMX-FP8, AVX10.2 & AMD GFX950

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2025 - 18:54
The LLVM 20 compiler stack saw its code branched from the mainline Git codebase last night as release preparations begin for what will be LLVM 20.1 as the inaugural stable release...

How to Install DeepSeek Locally with Ollama LLM in Ubuntu 24.04

Tecmint - Wed, 01/29/2025 - 17:17
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Running large language models like DeepSeek locally on your machine is a powerful way to explore AI capabilities without relying

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