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RPM 6.0 Released With OpenPGP Improvements & Enforces Signature Checking By Default

Phoronix - Mon, 09/22/2025 - 23:54
RPM 6.0 is out today as the newest major update to the RPM Package Manager as the package management system most commonly associated with Red Hat / Fedora, openSUSE, Mageia / OpenMandriva, and others...

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Performance With ROCm 7.0

Phoronix - Mon, 09/22/2025 - 22:30
With last week's official release of ROCm 7.0 failing to mention the AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" SoCs on the supported GPU list, a number of Phoronix readers and from elsewhere were inquiring whether or not Strix Halo works with the new ROCm release. Various AMD folks have mentioned Strix Halo with ROCm, so I decided to run some benchmarks for myself of ROCm 7.0 on Ubuntu Linux with the AMD Ryzen AI Max 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics on the Framework Desktop.

A Major Trading Firm Has Open-Sourced The Latest Linux File-System: TernFS

Phoronix - Mon, 09/22/2025 - 20:35
XTX Markets as one of the largest algorithmic trading firms that handles $250 billion in daily traded volume and relies on around 650+ petabytes of storage for its price forecasts and other algorithmic trading data has open-sourced its Linux file-system. XTX developed TernFS for distributed storage after they outgrew their original NFS usage and other file-system alternatives...

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