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Rust In Linux 6.12 Prepares For Rust Binder, Supports Sanitizers & CPU Mitigations

Phoronix - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 22:30
Miguel Ojeda has submitted all of the Rust toolchain and infrastructure changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel...

Cloudflare Goes With AMD EPYC Genoa-X For Their Next-Gen Servers

Phoronix - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 21:45
Cloudflare's always-interesting technical blog laid out their details today concerning their next-gen "12th Generation" in-house servers that will be powering their vast web infrastructure. With these next-gen Cloudflare servers they are going with AMD EPYC 9684X Genoa-X processors...

Mesa 24.3 Finishes The Years Long Effort To Phase Out The Old GLSL IR Linker

Phoronix - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 20:59
Timothy Arceri with the Valve Linux graphics team has merged the code for Mesa GLSL to convert to NIR at compile-time and in turn dropping the old GLSL IR linker with this being a multi-year effort now wrapped up for Mesa 24.3...

Linux 6.12 NFS Adds LOCALIO Protocol For "Extreme" Performance Boost

Phoronix - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 18:36
The Network File System (NFS) changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.12 development cycle. Notable this time with NFS is adding LOCALIO protocol extension support that can lead to fairly "extreme" performance improvements in scenarios where the NFS client and server are on the same host...

Fwupd 1.9.25 Supports Firmware Updates For A Few More Devices Under Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 18:17
Red Hat engineer Richard Hughes this morning released Fwupd 1.9.25 as the newest feature release to this open-source solution paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for making firmware updates on Linux a breeze for an increasing number of systems and peripherals. With Fwupd 1.9.25, the supported device list has grown a little bit longer...

Mold Linker Decides To Drop DEC Alpha Support: Likely Broken & No Actual Users

Phoronix - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 18:11
The high performance open-source Mold linker has released version 2.34 with various improvements while also deciding to throw in the towel on DEC Alpha processor support...

Frog-FIFO-V1 Aims To Address Mesa's "Fundamentally Broken" Wayland Code

Phoronix - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 13:00
Joshua Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics team has opened a Mesa merge request to support a proposed "frog-fifo-v1" protocol for Wayland to address the matter of "FIFO is fundamentally broken under Mesa's Wayland WSI right now."..

Intel Lunar Lake Linux Benchmarks Are Still Forthcoming

Phoronix - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 12:00
While there were many Windows reviews/benchmarks out Tuesday for Intel Core Ultra 200 Series "Lunar Lake" laptops on various websites, Linux tests are still awaiting due to having resorted to pre-ordering a Lunar Lake laptop myself for delivering Linux support/compatibility information and performance benchmarks. But hopefully by this time next week will be the initial data set...

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