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AMD Makes Another Software Acquisition To Bolster Their AI & Compiler Talent

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 22:00
In addition to the excitement this morning of the Radeon RX 9060 XT review embargo lift, today also serves as another special day at AMD as they announced they have acquired software firm Brium...

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 21:00
Ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card hitting retailers tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on this latest addition to the RDNA4 family. Here are the initial Linux graphics performance benchmarks for this new $349 graphics card compared to other AMD Radeon graphics cards as well as the NVIDIA GeForce and Intel Arc competition.

Fwupd 2.0.11 Brings Support For The Lenovo Thunderbolt 5 Smart Dock

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 20:59
Fwupd 2.0.11 is now available as the latest update to this open-source firmware updating tool for Linux systems...

WHIP Muxer Merged To FFmpeg For Sub-Second Latency Streaming

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 20:00
A big project was merged into FFmpeg overnight in providing a WHIP muxer for sub-second latency streaming...

New CXL RAS Features Upstreamed For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 18:43
Linux kernel developers continue building out the support around the Compute Express Link (CXL) specification for benefiting modern high performance servers. With the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel there are more CXL features now in place...

Ubuntu Developers Discuss The Difficult Issue Of Splitting Up Firmware Packages

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 18:28
Ubuntu developers have recently started a discussion over possibly splitting up the "linux-firmware" package into multiple sub-packages given the growing size of all the different firmware binaries needed to support the diverse range of hardware supported by the Linux kernel. It's nice in theory for helping to reduce the install footprint of Ubuntu Linux but in practice will be difficult to pull off without potentially risking the out-of-the-box hardware support on Ubuntu Linux...

Sched_Ext Boasts CPU Selection Improvements In Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 18:10
One of the niftiest kernel innovations to be upstreamed into Linux over the past year was sched_ext for extensible scheduler behavior in allowing kernel schedulers to be implemented via BPG programs. Sched_ext can allow for interesting scheduler improvements with a variety of use-cases and showed much potential even before being upstreamed. The work on sched_ext isn't yet over though and yet more improvements landed for Linux 6.16...

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