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jemalloc 5.3.1 Released With Many Improvements After Nearly Four Year Hiatus

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 08:22
Jemalloc 5.3.1 was released today with next month marking four years since the prior release, jemalloc 5.3.0. While the version bump may not seem like much, jemalloc 5.3.1 comes with many performance improvements, new features, and other enhancements...

233% 3-year return on investment and 13 months to payback with Red Hat AI

Red Hat News - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 08:00
Legacy infrastructure is the primary barrier to AI strategy. Current systems simply weren't built for these workloads. Platforms lack native AI support, leaving expensive GPUs underutilized at rates as low as 30%. While teams often customize models, the accuracy of those models tends to drop. In some situations, slow provisioning times force data scientists to build their own shadow environments—unauthorized tools and systems that IT and security teams don't know about. It's clear that AI success requires a platform that helps simplify workload management and boost productivity.To quantify t

GreenBoost Memory Orchestrator For NVIDIA GPUs Introduces GreenBoost-Proton For Gaming

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 03:30
Last month we showcased GreenBoost as an open-source means of augmenting NVIDIA GPU vRAM with system RAM and NVMe storage. This memory tiering solution for NVIDIA GPUs was developed by an open-source developer with a focus on CUDA and allowing larger LLMs to be handled on graphics cards with smaller vRAM capacities. There was a setback to the project due to NVIDIA legal but now the project is going in new form and also has introduced GreenBoost-Proton for helping Linux gaming on NVIDIA hardware...

Coreboot Comes To AMD Ryzen Powered Star Labs StarBook MK VI After 3+ Year Wait

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 03:05
For those that had purchased a StarBook MK VI laptop 3+ years ago over the advertised support for Coreboot, Star Labs has now delivered with a Coreboot build finally available and working for this AMD Ryzen 5000 series powered laptop...

user.* xattrs On Sockets Merged For Linux 7.1 As Sought By GNOME & systemd Developers

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 02:45
On this first day of the Linux 7.1 merge window, among the early pull requests merged were beginning to land the various VFS pull requests submitted by Christian Brauner. Among that code merged is enabling support for user.* extended attributes on sockets...

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