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Dasharo Platform Driver Aims To Enhance The Experience Using This Coreboot Downstream

Phoronix - Tue, 04/01/2025 - 00:43
The consulting firm 3mdeb's Dasharo open-source firmware distribution derived from Coreboot could soon feature improved integration under Linux thanks to a pending ACPI platform driver...

Redis-Forked Valkey 8.1 Released - Turns To AVX2 For Better Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 03/31/2025 - 23:55
It's been just over one year since the Linux Foundation and partners announced Valkey as a fork of Redis. Following the release of Redis 8.0 in September for this in-memory key-value database, Valkey 8.1 is out today...

Linux 6.15 exFAT Can Delete Files Much Faster: 4+ Minutes To 1.6 Second Optimization

Phoronix - Mon, 03/31/2025 - 22:23
For those dealing with exFAT formatted storage devices under Linux, the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel has a big optimization for yielding much faster delete performance when making use of the "discard" mount option...

AMD Software Advancements, RDNA4 & Ryzen 9900X3D Series Excited Linux Users In Q1

Phoronix - Mon, 03/31/2025 - 21:00
With Q1 drawing to an end, here is a look back at the most popular Linux/open-source news and Linux hardware reviews around AMD during the quarter on Phoronix. With 109 AMD news articles so far this quarter around their Linux software/hardware efforts and another 20 AMD Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles, they continue firing on all cylinders for pushing both their client and server wares forward outside the confines of Windows...

FreeBSD On Laptops Sees New Power Management Driver, WiFi 4 / WiFi 5 Progress

Phoronix - Mon, 03/31/2025 - 20:28
Over the past number of months there has been an effort underway to improve FreeBSD laptop support with financial backing by Dell, AMD, and Framework among others. This has resulted in power management improvements, increasing the focus on WiFi driver support for FreeBSD, and related areas to make FreeBSD on laptops more appealing and relevant in 2025...

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