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Last week I wrote about a tiny Linux patch yielding up to 32% faster performance and up to 18% less energy for Emerald Rapids CPUs. That patch is an adjustment to the Intel P-State driver's Energy Performance Preference (EPP) value for that Intel Xeon Scalable family. Today that patch was merged for the Linux 6.11 kernel...

Linux 6.11 Merges Intel P-State Patch For Emerald Rapids To Yield Better Performance  Phoronix

Are You Going to Try the COSMIC Linux Desktop?  How-To Geek

A number of Phoronix readers have been requesting a fresh re-test of the experimenta; Bcachefs file-system against other Linux file-systems on the newest kernel code. Your wish has been granted today with a fresh round of benchmarking across Bcachefs, Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS using the Linux 6.11-rc2 kernel. This round of testing was carried out on the newly-released Solidigm D7-PS1010 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs that offer very speedy performance for modern Linux desktops and servers.

An Initial Benchmark Of Bcachefs vs. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS On Linux 6.11  Phoronix

Canonical Announce Major Ubuntu Kernel Change  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux boot time reduced by 0.035 seconds thanks to a one-line kernel patch — aligning the slab in the ACPI code makes Linux boot faster  Tom's Hardware

Tuxedo starts pre-selling InfinityFlex 14 Linux-based 3-in-1 convertible with Intel Raptor Lake-U CPU  Notebookcheck.net

Intel's Arrow Lake-H could feature three types of CPU cores according to Linux patch — hybrid designs could get more complex  Tom's Hardware

Browsers on MacOS and Linux have failed to block malicious instructions sent to 0.0.0.0 – for 18 years  CyberNews.com

Major browser providers scramble to patch an 18-year-old vulnerability affecting MacOS and Linux systems but Windows remains gloriously immune  PC Gamer

Major browser providers scramble to patch an 18-year-old vulnerability affecting MacOS and Linux systems but Windows remains gloriously immune  PC Gamer

Submitted for DRM-Next last week with intentions of getting it into the Linux 6.12 kernel was a new DRM "power saving policy" property. The intent was for this new monitor/display connector property to indicate whether power saving features should be used that could compromise the experience intended by the desktop compositor. But one week later this property is now set to be removed as it's been deemed immature...

Linux's DRM Power Saving Policy Gets Reverted For Now  Phoronix

TUXEDO reveal the InfinityFlex a fully foldable Linux laptop  GamingOnLinux

Linux On The Snapdragon X1 Microsoft Surface Laptop 7, But Critical Features Missing  Phoronix

A Qualcomm engineer has posted the Linux kernel patches for adding the DeviceTree to support the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 devices powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 SoCs. This allows Linux to run on these new Snapdragon X1-powered Microsoft laptops but as with the other devices there are a number of support caveats that for most end-users will be a showstopper...

For those making use of the EROFS read-only file-system designed with mobile/embedded devices and containers in mind, EROFS-UTILS 1.8 is now available as an important update for these user-space utilities...

EROFS-UTILS 1.8 Brings Multi-Threaded Compression, Intel IAA Acceleration, Initial Zstd  Phoronix

The Linux kernel itself can already boot quite fast but with a simple one-line patch another ~0.035 seconds will be able to be shaved off the boot time...