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Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade

Phoronix - Tue, 04/23/2024 - 20:32
It's Fedora 40 release day! Fedora 40 is now available for download from mirrors for this leading Linux distribution...

NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 04/23/2024 - 19:00
Adding to the impressive number of features to be found in this quarter's Mesa 24.1 release is now the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver supporting implicit pipeline caching...

CBD Proposed For The Linux Kernel: CXL Block Device

Phoronix - Tue, 04/23/2024 - 18:42
The latest Compute Express Link (CXL) feature work being pursued for the mainline Linux kernel is a driver to create CXL block devices for storage. On Monday a "request for comments" patch series sent out the initial code for setting up CXL shared memory to be used as Linux block devices...

Bcachefs Sends In More Fixes For Linux 6.9: Recovery & Repair Issues Settling Down

Phoronix - Tue, 04/23/2024 - 18:33
Another week, another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes for the mainline Linux kernel...

AMD Prepping Fixes & Enhancements For P-State CPUFreq Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 04/23/2024 - 18:21
The AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for Zen 2 and newer processors has been working out well in its roughly two years of being in the mainline Linux kernel. The AMD P-State driver has helped with ensuring modern Ryzen systems are delivering optimal performance and power efficiency. Recently AMD Linux engineers have been working on a few fixes and enhancements to this CPUFreq driver...

NetBSD 9.4 Released With Security & Stability Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 04/23/2024 - 18:01
NetBSD 10.0 debuted last month with a long list of improvements and other enhancements that built up over the past several years. For those not yet taking the leap to this big NetBSD update, NetBSD 9.4 is out today for those relying on the stable NetBSD 9 series...

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