Early Linux 6.12 Kernel Benchmarks Showing Some Nice Gains On AMD Zen 5

With the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend and the bulk of the new feature merges now in the tree, I've begun running some Linux 6.12 benchmarks. Here is an initial look at Linux 6.10 vs. 6.11 vs. 6.12 Git on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X desktop...
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Fedora 41 is coming up, but we still have a new Linux kernel to test!

Help us test Linux kernel 6.11: fedoramagazine.org/contribute-…

Test Days will run from this Sun, Sep 29 to Oct 6. During this time the Quality Team will be available to work with you on bugs you find!

If you're interested in QA and would like to contribute to Fedora via QA, this is a great place to start. 🚀

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Bootable Containers are the future of Fedora Atomic Desktops and we presented that at @allsystemsgo.

Introduction by @cgwalters and Ben: media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-…

Then take a look at how we could use sysext's to improve the local layering story with @tormath1: media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-…

And then finally dive into Trusted Boot with UKI and composefs with @jbtrystram: media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-…

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AmpereOne CPPC CPUFreq Schedutil vs. Performance Governor Benchmarks

Similar to the ACPI CPUFreq and AMD/Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver and scaling governor benchmarks and power efficiency comparisons I routinely do on Phoronix, when recently having the Supermicro AmpereOne server in the lab with the 192-core A192-32X processor, I carried out some CPPC CPUFreq schedutil vs. performance governor benchmarks for curiosity and refere…
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Intel's Open PGL v0.7 Delivers New Experimental Features

Intel software engineers have released version 0.7 of Open PGL, their open-source Path Guiding Library (PGL) that can be used by 3D renderers to enjoy state-of-the-art path guiding methods for better sampling quality and efficiency...
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CouchDB Update Brings QuickJS Engine Option - 4~5x Faster Than SpiderMonkey

Apache CouchDB 3.4.1 was released today after the developers decided at the last minute before releasing CouchDB 3.4 to drop automatic upgrading of password hashes... Thus CouchDB 3.4.1 is out as the big "CouchDB 3.4" release. The CouchDB 3.4 series brings a number of performance improvements, QuickJS as an alternative to the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, and other…
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Dome Keeper hits 1 million players - multiplayer and modding support to come gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/dome…

#IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck #Godot

Stellaris: Grand Archive set for launch October 29th as Paradox teams up with Abrakam gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/stel…

#Stellaris #PCGaming

Voidwrought looks like another great one for Hollow Knight fans gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/void…

#IndieGames #PCGaming #SteamDeck

Sound Open Firmware 2.11 Adds AMD ACP 7.0 Strix Point & Intel Panther Lake Support

Sound Open Firmware 2.11 is now available for this open-source audio DSP firmware infrastructure and SDK project backed by Intel, AMD, and other IHVs/ISVs. With SOF 2.11 comes support for new hardware from both AMD and Intel...
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Warside looks great for turn-based tactics Advance Wars fans, set for launch in January 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/wars…

#Warside #Godot #IndieGames

Upstream Linux 6.12 Makes It Easier To Build A Debug Kernel For Arch Linux

The upstream Linux 6.11 kernel introduced the ability to easily produce a Pacman kernel package for Arch Linux with the new "make pacman-pkg" target. With Linux 6.12 new additions to the Kbuild code make it easy to also produce a debug kernel build for Arch Linux systems...
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Asynchronous Device Shutdown Doesn't Make It For Linux 6.12

Patches for wiring up async device shutdown within the Linux kernel were queued via the driver core branch for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. However, at the last minute these asynchronous device shutdown patches were reverted so that they can be reworked and hopefully land for the Linux v6.13 kernel in the new year...
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Streets of Rogue 2 gets a new Classes Overview Trailer gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/stre…

#StreetsofRogue2 #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Blumenkrantz Seeks Clear Policy How Wayland Protocol Changes Can Be Rejected

As part of his new hope for helping to accelerate Wayland protocol development, Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve proposed an "experimental" protocol development area within Wayland-Protocols. He's also laid out a proposal for seeking to solidify the means by which suggested protocol changes can be rejected...
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shapez 2 is a huge success selling over 270,000 in the first month, future plans detailed gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/shap…

#IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming

Steam Subscriber Agreement updated for disputes removing the need for individual arbitration gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/stea…

#Steam #Valve

DXVK 2.4.1 Improves Support for God of War, GTA: San Andreas, and Other Games linuxtoday.com/blog/dxvk-2-4-1…

BusyBox 1.37 Adds "getfattr" Along With Other Improvements

BusyBox 1.37 has been released as the first feature release in one and a half years for this "Swiss Army Knife of embedded Linux" systems. With BusyBox 1.37 comes some new options, many fixes, and other enhancements...
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