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Intel's Clear Linux Demonstrates Software Optimization Benefits On AMD EPYC 9005 Series

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 21:45
With the spring Linux distribution/OS updates upon us, in recent weeks I've looked at the Ubuntu 25.04 performance gains on AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" and also the performance of Fedora Server 42. Following that I expanded the scope of the Linux operating systems (distributions) benchmarks on the latest 5th Gen AMD EPYC server hardware. Here is a look at how the performance of the new Ubuntu and Fedora Linux releases compare to AlmaLinux and Intel's in-house Clear Linux distribution that tends to be at the forefront of open-source performance optimizations.

Ubuntu 25.10 Plans To Use sudo-rs By Default For Memory-Safe, Rust-Based sudo

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 20:30
With Ubuntu 25.10 Canonical is planning to make use of more Rust-written system components and so far most of that talk has been about transitioning to Rust Coreutils "uutils" in place of GNU Coreutils. It's also been firmed up today that Canonical is planning on using sudo-rs by default as a replacement to sudo...

PoCL 7.0 RC1 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On CPUs & Level Zero

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 20:18
PoCL 7.0 is on approach as the newest version of this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that began as a CPU-based OpenCL driver implementation but with time has added support for other back-ends from Intel Level Zero to NVIDIA PTX and AMD HSA...

Btrfs "CLEAR_FREE" Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 18:50
The Btrfs file-system looks like its new "CLEAR_FREE" feature will be ready to go for the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle...

Intel RAR TLB Invalidation Being Worked On For Linux - Alternative To AMD INVLPGB

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 18:32
Merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel was AMD INVLPGB support for broadcast TLB invalidation on recent Zen cores. AMD INVLPGB use by the Linux kernel can provide for some nice performance gains while now similar support for Intel processors is coming via a kernel patch series working on Intel RAR TLB invalidation support...

LVFS/Fwupd Talked Up For Linux Servers & Being What Customers Want

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 18:25
Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat was at the PremDay on-premise computing conference in Paris to talk up this open-source firmware updating solution and being what customers want. The presentation video and slides are now available for those needing additional material in helping sell your organization on the benefits of LVFS/Fwupd...

IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 Announced For Linux Servers Powered By Telum II

Phoronix - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 17:59
Last month IBM announced the z17 mainframe powered by Telum II processors and today they announced the IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 servers...

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