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DXVK 2.6.1 Released With More Bug Fixes & Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Mon, 04/07/2025 - 22:10
DXVK 2.6.1 was just released as the newest update to this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over Vulkan API implementation used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and other softwarefor enjoying older Windows games on Linux...

Five Year Old Ubuntu Bug For NVIDIA Suspend/Resume Experience: Now Working On X11, Wayland Not Yet

Phoronix - Mon, 04/07/2025 - 20:30
For those looking toward a pleasant suspend and resume experience on Ubuntu with the default GNOME desktop, the Ubuntu 25.04 cycle is poised to allow for addressing a five-year-old Ubuntu bug report around the experience. However, for the near-term this is only expected to be in good shape for those using the GNOME X11 session with the GNOME Wayland session requiring further work to the Mutter compositor...

FFmpeg Lands AES-NI Optimized Implementation For Big Speed-Up

Phoronix - Mon, 04/07/2025 - 18:25
FFmpeg is known for carrying a lot of hand-optimized Assembly code for speeding up this widely-used multimedia library and taking advantage of AVX-512 and other modern CPU ISA capabilities. Merged yesterday was support for making use of AES-NI for those relying on Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) within FFmpeg for encrypted video streams...

Apple M1 / M2 / M3 Core Support Might Soon Be Merged For The GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 04/07/2025 - 18:12
When it comes to compiler support for Apple Silicon and their hardware at large, Apple has long been focused on the LLVM/Clang toolchain given their long history with it, employing many of the developers, and Xcode being based on LLVM. The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) though may soon see upstream support for the newer Apple Cores thanks to the work of GCC developer Iain Sandoe along with the input of engineers from Arm and the Apple open-source team...

Linux 6.14.1 Released With An Initial Set Of Fixes & Hardware Quirks

Phoronix - Mon, 04/07/2025 - 17:53
For those that prefer waiting for the first point release before upgrading to a new feature release, Linux 6.14.1 was released this morning with an initial collection of fixes atop the Linux 6.14 codebase from two weeks ago...

How to Speed Up SSH Access with Shortcuts and Auto-Complete

Tecmint - Mon, 04/07/2025 - 14:39
The post How to Speed Up SSH Access with Shortcuts and Auto-Complete first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you use Linux or manage remote servers (like cloud servers on AWS, DigitalOcean, or even local machines on your

The post How to Speed Up SSH Access with Shortcuts and Auto-Complete first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Turbostat Utility Bumps 1024 CPU Core Limit To 8192 Cores After HPE Breaches It With 1152 Cores

Phoronix - Mon, 04/07/2025 - 12:00
On Sunday prior to releasing Linux 6.15-rc1, one of the last feature pulls was merging updates for the Turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree. The Turbostat tool provides CPU frequency and power statistics along with the ability to query temperatures and other CPU metrics on AMD and Intel processors...

Llama 4 Herd is here and already works with Red Hat OpenShift AI

Red Hat News - Mon, 04/07/2025 - 08:00
Summary:Meta released its newest version of the Llama model family this weekend–Llama 4As a leading commercial contributor to the vLLM project, Red Hat collaborated with the Meta team to help enable Day Zero support for Llama 4 inference with vLLMFurthermore, the Red Hat OpenShift AI team has enabled our customers to experiment with Llama 4 using the latest release of vLLM inside their OpenShift AI environments.Read on to get started with inferencing the Llama 4 Heard inside OpenShift AI!Over the April 5 weekend, Meta released its newest version of the Llama model family–Llama 4, enabling

Linux 6.15-rc1 Released With New Performance Optimizations, Updated Zstd & New Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 04/07/2025 - 04:39
The Linux 6.15 merge window has been capped off with the Linux 6.15-rc1 test kernel having been just released...

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