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FUSE Hooks Up With IO_uring For Greater Performance Potential In Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 19:23
The FUSE code within the Linux kernel for enabling file-systems in user-space has a new performance capability up its sleeve with now supporting IO_uring communication between kernel and user-space...

NVIDIA VFIO Driver Prepares For Blackwell With Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 19:09
All of the Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) driver updates were merged this week as we reach the end of the Linux 6.14 merge window...

How to Mount a USB Drive Every Time Linux Boots Up

Tecmint - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 13:16
The post How to Mount a USB Drive Every Time Linux Boots Up first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you use a USB drive regularly on your Linux system, you might want it to automatically mount every time

The post How to Mount a USB Drive Every Time Linux Boots Up first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Mesa 25.0-rc1 Released With Initial AMD RDNA4 Support, Vulkan 1.4 & Other New Extensions

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 09:36
Mesa 25.0 feature development is now over with the code having been branched from Mesa Git and the Mesa 25.0-rc1 release candidate issued. Mesa 25.0 is to be the next quarterly feature release for these open-source 3D graphics drivers and will hopefully see its stable debut before the end of February. In turn Mesa 25.0 will be found with the likes of Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 for providing the newest open-source OpenGL and Vulkan driver support, including for upcoming AMD RDNA4 graphics...

GParted 1.7 Released With Support For Bcachefs & Network Block Devices

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 09:20
GParted as the GNOME Partition Editor as one of the most robust solutions for GUI-driven partition and file-system management on Linux is out with a new feature release...

Intel Decides Against Bringing Falcon Shores To Market, Instead An Internal Test Chip

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 08:29
Intel Co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus announced during their Q4 earnings call this evening that they will not be bringing their "Falcon Shores" AI / HPC chip to market. Falcon Shores was to be their next-gen GPU accelerator to effectively succeed their Gaudi AI chips. Instead Falcon Shores will be used as an internal test vehicle while preparing the hardware/software ecosystem for Jaguar Shores as its successor...

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