Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr large gaming performance over stock CPU scheduler when there is a heavy CPU task running in background...
AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023 (www.phoronix.com)
LXQt 1.4 Debuts As Last Planned Qt5 Desktop Release (www.phoronix.com)
LXQt 1.4 debuted today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Qt desktop environment that was formed years ago as the merging of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects....
AMD "INCEPTION" CPU Vulnerability Disclosed (www.phoronix.com)
AMD-SB-7005 “Return Address Security Bulletin” outlines this new speculative side channel attack affecting recent EPYC and Ryzen processors....
LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Low Power Mode Daemon v0.0.4 Released To Optimize Hybrid CPUs On Linux (www.phoronix.com)
Microsoft Engineer Sends Rust Linux Kernel Patches For In-Place Module Initialization (www.phoronix.com)
LACT 0.5.3 Released For Managing AMD Graphics Cards Under Linux (www.phoronix.com)
LACT is a graphical tool for AMD Radeon information reporting, GPU overclocking, fan control, power/thermal monitoring, and additional power state configurations....
Windows NT Sync Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel - Better Wine Performance (www.phoronix.com)
Trying Out & Benchmarking Bcachefs On Linux 6.7 (www.phoronix.com)
Intel DOWNFALL: New Vulnerability Affecting AVX2/AVX-512 With Big Performance Implications (www.phoronix.com)
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merged Into Mesa 23.3 (www.phoronix.com)
Released: NVIDIA 555.42.02 Linux Beta Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa's CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Now Supports Ray-Tracing (www.phoronix.com)
Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default (www.phoronix.com)
AMD P-State Preferred Core Handling Being Enabled For Linux (www.phoronix.com)
AMD CPUs since the Ryzen 3000 series (Zen 2) have had the notion of “preferred cores” that via ACPI CPPC are communicated to the OS and could be shown under Windows with the likes of AMD Ryzen Master. Now we have AMD Linux engineers working on properly leveraging the “preferred cores” handling for the modern AMD P-State...
Chrome 127 Should Provide PipeWire Camera Capture Support (www.phoronix.com)
Arch Linux Increasing Its vm.max_map_count To Help Steam Play Games & Other Software (www.phoronix.com)
article: The Significant Corporate Importance & Pressure Around Mesa Open-Source Linux 3D Drivers (www.phoronix.com)
“The most recent example is a now-merged merge request to revert an earlier change bumping the Zlib dependency for Mesa. The basis for that revert is that it breaks SPECViewPerf.”...
AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
RHEL's Source Code Access Change Is Causing Issues For CentOS SIGs (www.phoronix.com)
Fwupd 1.9.6 Brings Linux Firmware Updating For AMD Graphics Cards (www.phoronix.com)
Ubuntu Desktop "Charting A Course For The Future" With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year (www.phoronix.com)
The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away (www.phoronix.com)
Alice “psykose” who is easily responsible for the highest number of commits per author over the past year has decided to step down from maintaining her packages....
SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0 (www.phoronix.com)
