systemd 258-rc2 Released In Preparing For H2'2025 Linux Distributions
Released two weeks ago was systemd 258-rc1 with many changes throughout its massive codebae. Out today is a second release candidate of the forthcoming systemd 258...
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Rust Making Progress On Its 2025 Project Goals
The Rust project put out a status update concerning its 2025 project goals to summarize what has been accomplished during the first half of the year...
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Following yesterday's F2FS pull request, the exFAT file-system updates were sent out and since merged for the ongoing Linux 6.17 kernel merge window.lxer.com
: New version season is near, and some of the big names are dropping x86-32 – but not this oneLiam Proven (The Register)
Learn how to configure pam_faillock on Ubuntu and Debian to automatically lock user accounts after failed login attempts. Complete step-by-step guide with safety tips and troubleshooting for Linux system administrators.Lubos Rendek (LinuxConfig)
If all goes according to plan Debian 13.0 will be released this weekend.lxer.com
PCI Express 8.0 Aims For 256 GT/s In 2028
The PCI-SIG announced today the PCI Express 8.0 specification due out in 2028 will double the data of the PCI Express 7.0 specification, taking it to 256 GT/s...
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Over the past three months we have been excitedly testing AMD's Strix Halo SoC with the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 flagship model as well as the Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 as one step below.lxer.com
Debian 13 Showing 13% Performance Improvement Over Debian 12 On AMD EPYC
If all goes according to plan Debian 13.0 will be released this weekend. Already in its effectively final state aside from any last minute fixes, I've begun running Debian 13 testing builds on various systems in the lab to great success. With two years since Debian 12, the new software packages of Debian 13 help in delivering better performance especially on modern syst…
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FFmpeg developers are known for delivering some really wild performance gains from hand-optimized Assembly code especially around Intel/AMD AVX-512 optimizations for various features of this widely-used open-source multimedia librarylxer.com
exFAT Fixes Significant Random Write Performance Regression With Linux 6.17
Following yesterday's F2FS pull request, the exFAT file-system updates were sent out and since merged for the ongoing Linux 6.17 kernel merge window...
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openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC is out with Xfce on Wayland, powered by a new Agama installer, SELinux defaults, and a revamped Zypper experience.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Intel Upstreams libsycl SYCL Runtime Library Into LLVM
For several years now Intel has been working on SYCL support within LLVM and various related efforts like the LLVM SPIR-V back-end as part of their oneAPI ambitions and Data Parallel C++ across their spectrum of hardware. The latest hitting upstream LLVM is libsycl as a SYCL run-time library...
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Raja Koduri Announces New GPU Software & IP Startup - OXPython For CUDA AI On Non-NVIDIA GPUs
Oxmiq Labs exited stealth mode today as a new startup led by Raja Koduri of AMD / Apple / Intel fame to focus on GPU software and licenseable graphics IP. Oxmiq Labs is a new GPU software and IP startup that has been in development for two years already and built a team of talented GPU and AI architects...
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: Developer community skeptical following 'long silent stagnation' of the framework and accompanying SDKTim Anderson (The Register)
SDL Library Lands Precision Scrolling For X.Org Usage
For Linux gamers relying on the X.Org Server, the SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed support for precision/pixel scrolling...
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FFmpeg Delivers Very Nice Performance Gains For Bwdif Deinterlacing With AVX-512
FFmpeg developers are known for delivering some really wild performance gains from hand-optimized Assembly code especially around Intel/AMD AVX-512 optimizations for various features of this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Merged this week was enhancing the Bwdif deinterlacing video filter with a 23~28x speed-up over the basic C code path when using AV…
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Linux 6.17 Introduces hash_pointers= Boot Parameter
Linus Torvalds yesterday merged a patch from SUSE's Petr Mladek introducing a new boot parameter option for the kernel to provide greater control over the behavior of hashing pointer values...
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Intel Updates Legacy Compute Driver To Benefit Broadwell Through Ice Lake iGPUs
Last year Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support discontinued its support for Broadwell through Ice Lake integrated graphics to focus strictly on Tigerlake with Intel "Gen12" graphics and newer. Today though they issued an update to their legacy driver branch for helping with the graphics compute support on those …
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Last year Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support discontinued its support for Broadwell through Ice Lake integrated graphics to focus strictly on Tigerlake with Intel 'Gen12' graphics and newerwww.phoronix.com
Along with today's NVIDIA R580 Linux driver beta, the CUDA 13.0 toolkit is now available to download and depends upon the new R580 Linux driver series.lxer.com
: On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summariesTobias Mann (The Register)
Junio Hamano announced the release of Git 2.51-rc0 to kick off the new week and the first step toward Git 2.51 as the next milestone for this open-source distributed version control system.lxer.com
In addition to the many MM changes merged this weekend for Linux 6.17, Andrew Morton on Sunday also sent out his 'non-MM' pull request for this new kernellxer.com
NVIDIA drops 580.65 beta driver for Linux with Vulkan crash fixes, improved Wayland support, and new latency-reducing options for VR and gaming.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
MX Linux 25 will offer Wayland by default on KDE, separate init system ISOs, Secure Boot support, and discontinue 32-bit ISO images.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
: Cites low demand and overcapacity for electric cars on the same day Tesla gives Elon Musk $29 billion for similar reasonsSimon Sharwood (The Register)
Sent out today for the Linux 6.17 merge window and already merged hours later were the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) feature updates.lxer.com
André, R.I.P. Natenom 🕯️🖤
in reply to Phoronix • • •Can you create a test scenario with and without patch on a shindled drive (after internal non shindled buffer ist fully occupied)?
I had my system almost come to halt with 2-6kb/s on some external 2.5" 5/6TB drives.