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      New Hygon Model 8 "Suzhou" x86 CPU Support Appears In The GCC Compiler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:12

    A seemingly new generation of Hygon x86 processors are on the way with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) seeing support today for the Hygon Model 8 "Suzhou" c86-4g-m8 processors...
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      Linux 7.2 RISC-V Reduces Kernel Startup Overhead, Eswin SoC Support By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:59

    Along with the many x86/x86_64 improvements and some ARM64 architecture improvements (albeit slowed down by the AI/LLM noise affecting the development pace), the RISC-V architecture changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel development...
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      KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:45

    Following last week's major Plasma 6.7 release, Plasma 6.7.1 is now available today with an initial assortment of bug fixes...
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      USB4STREAM Merged For Linux 7.2 To Quickly Send Data Between USB4 Connected Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    As part of today's USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window, USB4STREAM was merged as a nifty and exciting addition to opening up some interesting USB4 connnectivity use-cases for high speed, low latency data transfers...
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      Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 Lays Out Tuning Recommendations For More Workloads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Back in March Intel announced the Optimization Zone as a new initiative for helping server administrators and developers better maximize the performance of different workloads running on Intel hardware. Out today is the Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 release with more workloads now covered for squeezing out the most performance on Intel CPUs...
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      Steam Machine Launches, Priced $1049 To $1428 USD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Valve today finally revealed pricing on their SteamOS Linux-powered Steam Machine living room PC. Given the ongoing RAM and storage pricing pressure, the Steam Machine pricing comes in at the high-end...
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      Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.
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      Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Over the past half-year, Xfwl4 has been developed as a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. Released this weekend was the first preview release of Xfwl4 in alpha form...
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      Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status...