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Fedora Server 42 Is Performing Well On 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin"

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 22:45
Following the recent benchmarking of Ubuntu Server 25.04 in its near final state compared to prior Ubuntu Linux releases, I turned my attention to Fedora Server 42. On the same AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" server I carried out some comparison benchmarks of Fedora Server 42 compared to the prior Fedora Server 41 and other Linux distribution releases for seeing how Fedora 42 is competing with other Linux distributions on this 5th Gen AMD EPYC dual socket server.

Mesa 25.1 Panfrost & PanVK Begin Supporting Newer Arm Mali 5th Gen Graphics

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 21:53
With the newest Mesa 25.1-devel Git code merged today the Panfrost Gallium3D and PanVK Vulkan drivers for Arm Mali open-source graphics are supporting Mali 5th Gen gen 1 (v12) and gen 2 (v13) devices...

Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 20:45
Fedora 42 is out today as a fabulous update to this prominent leading-edge Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat. I've been running Fedora 42 on several systems already -- including upgrading my main production system to it -- and it's been working out very well. Fedora 42 is packed full of new features and software updates making it a great H1'2025 Linux operating system release...

Linux Might Drop The Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Kernel Driver Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 18:50
There's the possibility raised that the mainline Linux kernel might remove its file-system kernel drivers for Apple HFS and HFS+ this year...

Intel's VPL GPU Runtime Preparing To Drop The Media SDK With Pre-Tigerlake Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 18:32
The Intel Video Processing Library GPU Runtime "VPL-GPU-RT" as the run-time component to the Intel VPL API for video processing with a variety of video encoders/decoders and filters is preparing to end mainline support for Intel graphics prior to Tiger Lake...

Linux 6.16 Expected To Remove Datagram Congestion Control Protocol "DCCP" Networking

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 18:16
The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) intended for online gaming, IP telephony, multimedia streaming, and other online real-time purposes for this transport layer protocol is expected to be stripped out of the Linux kernel with the upcoming v6.16 cycle...

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