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Linus Torvalds Addresses His Latest ARM64 Annoyance: Installing Compressed Kernel Images

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 18:57

Following Linus Torvalds receiving an Ampere Altra Max workstation from Ampere Computing, he's been dabbling more with ARM64 now that it affords him more AArch64 compute power than his Apple Silicon powered MacBook. Torvalds kicked off the Linux 6.11 merge window by landing some of his own code to further enhance the ARM64 kernel and as we approach the end of the v6.11 merge window this weekend, he's merged some more ARM64 code...

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NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 17:19

With the recently introduced NVIDIA 555 Linux driver stable series their open-source GPU kernel driver modules are in great shape across consumer and professional graphics products. Over the past two years the support has evolved so much that NVIDIA is now promoting their open-source kernel driver usage and with the NVIDIA 560 Linux driver beta posted this week they are defaulting to using their open-source kernel driver modules in place of the proprietary option -- on the Turing and newer GPUs supported by the open-source code. Here is a fresh look at the impact.

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LLVM 19.1-rc1 Compiler Released With More C23 / C++23 & New Intel Extensions

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 16:51

LLVM 19.1-rc1 was released today as the first tagged development snapshot of LLVM 19 that is working its way toward the stable LLVM 19.1 version expected in September...

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Fwupd 1.9.22 Released With Framework SD Expansion Card & Raspberry Pi 5 Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 16:34

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just released Fwupd 1.9.22 as the newest version of this open-source solution for allowing system and peripheral firmware updates to be carried out quickly and easily from Linux systems...

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Linux 6.11 Is Looking Good In Early Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen Threadripper

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 12:20

With the Linux 6.11 kernel merge window wrapping up this weekend, I've begun "kicking the tires" on the new kernel that will then see the weekly release candidates over the next two months. For some initial Linux 6.10 vs. 6.11 Git benchmarking on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation, the new kernel is appearing fit and offering some nice performance gains in a few areas...

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ASRock Announces Passively Cooled Radeon RX 7900 Series

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 10:59

For those striving for a silent PC while having high-end specs, ASRock today announced passively-cooled Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics cards...

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New Dell PC Driver & Intel Performance Limit Reasons Help Laptops On Linux 6.11

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 10:38

The x86 platform driver updates were merged last week for the Linux 6.11 merge window. The x86 platform drivers predominantly benefit Intel/AMD laptops on Linux but also some other x86 non-laptop hardware and then more recently also some ARM64 laptop drivers appearing in this area of the kernel...

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AlmaLinux Picking Up glibc Patch Ahead Of RHEL To Rescue VFX Houdini Users

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 10:15

While Red Hat Enterprise Linux is very popular with the VFX crowd, those relying on the SideFX Houdini 3D animation software are running into a bit of a pickle if trying to use RHEL 9.4. There's a glibc bug causing random crashes for Houdini that Red Hat has been slow to pickup but is now going to be shipped by AlmaLinux early to satisfy VFX users...

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KDE Human Interface Guidelines Being Further Refined & Polished

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 09:56

Back in early June the KDE Human Interface Guidelines "HIG" were updated. These design principles for KDE software were updated to modern standards, adapt to the latest Qt toolkit behavior, and also making it more inviting to new contributors. Since then the KDE HIG has continued to see more refinements...