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Linus Torvalds Rejects The Idea Of Enabling DAMON By Default In The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 06/12/2025 - 00:00
DAMON is a nifty data access monitoring solution for the Linux kernel developed by Amazon and other parties for system monitoring and performance/efficiency optimizations and more. But it's not so ground-breaking that it's worth enabling by default in all Linux kernel builds, Linus Torvalds has decided...

Ultra Ethernet Consortium Publishes UEC 1.0 Specification

Phoronix - Wed, 06/11/2025 - 23:00
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium today published the UEC Specification 1.0 release. Nearly two years ago the Ultra Ethernet Consortium was started by Intel, AMD, Meta, HPE, and others and hosted by the Linux Foundation for open and high performance networking with an emphasis on AI and HPC...

DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Graphics Drivers With New GPU Support But Still Years Behind

Phoronix - Wed, 06/11/2025 - 21:00
DragonFlyBSD has updated its Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver code that it ports over from what's available in the upstream Linux kernel. The latest revision to the DragonFlyBSD kernel graphics driver code enables support for some new hardware platforms but remains woefully behind the latest generation dGPUs/iGPUs and what is found in the upstream Linux kernel...

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