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Arch Linux Installer Adds Wayfire As A Desktop Option, Btrfs Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2025 - 03:10
Archinstall 3.0.2 was just tagged as the newest version of this quick and easy, text-based installer for the Arch Linux operating system...

Free Software Foundation Marking 40 Years Old With A New Logo

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2025 - 02:12
In October it will mark 40 years since the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded by Richard Stallman. In marking forty years of supporting the free software movement, they have been running a logo contest to memorialize the milestone. Today that new logo was unveiled...

AMD Radeon On Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0-devel vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2025 - 01:00
Ahead of the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series graphics "Blackwell" and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series "RDNA4" later in the quarter, I figured it would be worthwhile having a dedicated article looking at the latest upstream Linux graphics/gaming performance for current generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 and AMD Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards. On the AMD side was the near-final Linux 6.13 kernel along with Mesa 25.0-devel for the latest RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL driver support while on the NVIDIA side was their current 565 driver release branch.

AMD Announces The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" For Advanced Linux Desktop Features

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 23:12
An unexpected surprise today are AMD Linux software engineers announcing a new project a bit further outside the scope of their open-source graphics drivers... The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" is for delivering new advanced features atop Wayland for bettering the Linux desktop display capabilities...

Very Promising Linux Patch Optimizes TLB Flushes During Page Reclamation

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 23:01
Google engineer Vinay Banakar sent out a patch this week for the Linux kernel's memory management code to optimize TLB flushes during page reclaim and are showing very promising results...

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