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      Godot 4.7 Released With HDR Output Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 hours ago

    Godot 4.7 is out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine...
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      How NVIDIA Vera CPU Performance Compares To The Ampere Altra Max

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 hours ago

    Last month on Phoronix was an exclusive first look at the NVIDIA Vera CPU performance compared to prior-generation NVIDIA Grace as well as the current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon competition. Following that was looking at how the ARM Linux server performance has evolved over the past eight years of AArch64 Linux servers. A Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested wanting to see how Vera compares to Ampere Altra. While Ampere Altra has been in the marketplace now for more than five years, they are some of the most readily available ARM Linux server options for DIY/enthusiast builds given the scarcity of AmpereOne and lack of other readily available socketed ARM CPU options. This article shows how the performance compares between Ampere Altra Max and NVIDIA Vera.
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      EXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster Directory Hash Computation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 hours ago

    The EXT4 file-system improvements were merged today for Linux 7.2 with some enticing optimizations...
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      Rust PNG Image Decoder Now Even Faster: Benefiting Chrome, GNOME, Etc

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    The Rust PNG crate, image-png, for PNG image encoding and decoding was already claimed to be the fastest PNG decoder in the world for the past year. Now with the latest optimizations, it's even faster...
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      Claude AI Assists In Fixing Years Old AMD Radeon Linux Display Bug Affecting Numerous Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    A bug in the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver leading to some laptop displays freezing after periods of use may finally be close to being resolved. Given the length and quantity of bug reports and one of the problematic commits being tracked back to 2017, it's a heavy hitting issue for some Linux users. With the help of Claude Code, it looks like a fix is on the way to the Linux kernel...
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      AF_ALG Deprecation Approved For Linux 7.2, Useless & Insecure Crypto Driver Code Removed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    The cryptographic subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...
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      Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    Canonical and the Ubuntu Release Team have implemented an important policy change for Ubuntu flavors moving forward. If they are to have an official release, they must now successfully submit a beta release...
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      Latest LLVM Patch Further Points To AMD GFX1250/GFX1251 Being Instinct Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    With the ongoing work around the AMD GFX1250 (and GFX1251) in the open-source AMD Linux driver stack, it's led to a lot of speculation about these parts in the GFX12 series associated with RDNA4. RDNA4 refresh? Or a lot of signals have pointed to GFX125x being possible AI/HPC accelerators such as for the upcoming Instinct MI400 series. Adding to the intrigue is GFX1251 being an APU. The latest LLVM compiler activity is further pointing to GFX1250/GFX1251 being for enterprise hardware...
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      Linux 7.2 EDAC Drivers Prep For Diamond Rapids, Nova Lake H

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) drivers, such as for dealing with ECC memory error reporting, are heavy on the Intel side with Linux 7.2 in preparing for upcoming hardware...