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Ubuntu 25.10 Delivering Some Nice Performance Gains For Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake"

Phoronix - Mon, 10/06/2025 - 23:00
Ubuntu 25.10 is looking quite nice in the performance department ahead of its official release later this week. On various systems tested thus far, Ubuntu 25.10 is delivering nice gains over Ubuntu 25.04 and compared to the current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The latest Ubuntu 25.10 benchmarking at Phoronix is looking at the Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake performance using the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop.

Linux Preps IAA Accelerator Support For Intel's Wildcat Lake

Phoronix - Mon, 10/06/2025 - 22:50
While the Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) so far is just found on newer Xeon server processors, prior Linux patches acknowledge IAA being found on at least select Panther Lake SoCs. New patches ready for merging to the Linux 6.18 kernel are indicating IAA accelerator(s) will also be found on at least some of the lower-cost Wildcat Lake SoCs too...

Many Networking Performance Improvements & New Hardware In Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Mon, 10/06/2025 - 21:42
The networking subsytem updates for Linux 6.18 have been merged. There is a lot of enticing performance optimizations in different areas of the networking stack for this new kernel. Plus new wired and wireless networking hardware support and other improvements to get excited about for this LTS kernel version...

ALGOL 68 Programming Language Support Still Being Worked On For GCC

Phoronix - Mon, 10/06/2025 - 21:14
At the start of the year, a new GCC compiler front-end was proposed for the half-century old ALGOL 68 programming language. Not exactly a popular programming language in recent decades and ahead of the GCC 15 release it was decided to not merge it yet to GCC. Even with that setback, development on the ALGOL 68 GCC compiler continues...

Linux 6.18 Adds Two New x86 Platform Drivers, New AMD PMF Capabilities

Phoronix - Mon, 10/06/2025 - 18:17
The x86 platform drivers area of the Linux kernel continues to see a lot of code churn for supporting new laptops and enhancing support for existing laptop models. Plus the likes of AMD PMF and Intel PMC continue to see ongoing improvements too...

Intel TDX Will Now Work With Linux's Kexec - Except For Early CPUs With Known Bug

Phoronix - Mon, 10/06/2025 - 18:04
The Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) updates for the Linux 6.18 kernel allow it to work with Kexec for being able to load and boot into a new kernel from another currently running kernel...

VFIO Platform Driver Saved From Removal, NVIDIA GB300 Support Added

Phoronix - Mon, 10/06/2025 - 17:45
The VFIO subsystem updates were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.18 merge window...

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