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Last Minute AMD GFX12 Changes For RadeonSI Driver Enable ACO For RDNA4

Phoronix - Mon, 12/16/2024 - 18:58
Ahead of AMD's approaching RDNA4 next-generation graphics card launch, today a set of last minute improvements to the AMD GFX12 graphics IP were merged to Mesa 25.0 for the open-source Linux graphics driver support...

How to Install and Switch Desktop Environments in Fedora

Tecmint - Mon, 12/16/2024 - 12:38
The post How to Install and Switch Desktop Environments in Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Fedora is a popular Linux distribution known for its cutting-edge features and stability. One of the best things about Fedora

The post How to Install and Switch Desktop Environments in Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux 6.13-rc3 Released With KVM Caching For "Wildly Expensive" Intel CPUID Handling

Phoronix - Mon, 12/16/2024 - 08:22
Linus Torvalds announced the release this evening of the Linux 6.13-rc3 kernel as Linux 6.13 works its way to stable release by late January...

Java Throughput/Latency & Power Efficiency Tuning For AMD EPYC Turin

Phoronix - Sun, 12/15/2024 - 23:00
Last month I looked at the impact of AMD's BIOS tuning guide on AI / machine learning workloads for new 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" processors. In today's article I am looking at the performance and power efficiency impact of AMD EPYC 9005 series processors with AMD's BIOS tuning recommendations for Java workloads on Linux.

Linux Fixing A "Hilarious/Revolting Performance Regression" Around Intel KVM Virtualization

Phoronix - Sun, 12/15/2024 - 21:55
It's not too often that "fixes" to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) are noteworthy but today is an interesting exception with among the KVM fixes sent in today ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc3 tagging is for beginning to deal with a "hilarious/revolting" performance regression affecting recent generations of Intel processors. This performance regression won't be fully worked around until Linux 6.14 but at least there is an interim step in place once the code is merged later today...

Xfce 4.20 Desktop Released With Wayland Improvements & New Features

Phoronix - Sun, 12/15/2024 - 19:34
After roughly two years of development the Xfce 4.20 lightweight desktop has been released ahead of the year end holidays...

Btrfs Working On RAID1 Round-Robin Read Balancing

Phoronix - Sun, 12/15/2024 - 19:20
It's been a while since there has been anything new to report on the Btrfs file-system's built-in RAID functionality but that is changing with RAID1 round-robin read balancing...

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