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      Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Moving To OpenJDK 25 By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    It's not too surprising but the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support release will be transitioning to OpenJDK 25 as its default Java version...
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      Intel Vulkan Driver Lands One-Line Change That Can Bring Minor Performance Benefits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    Merged today to Mesa 26.1 Git is a one-line change to the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver that is showing to deliver some slight performance benefits or up to 3% noted in some select games...
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      Turbostat With Linux 7.0 Can Report New L2 Cache Statistics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    The Turbostat command-line utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other useful information for AMD and Intel CPUs can now report some L2 cache stats for recent Intel CPUs beginning with Linux 7.0...
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      AI Helped Uncover A "50-80x Improvement" For Linux's IO_uring

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Linux block maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe recently was debugging some slowdowns in the AHCI/SCSI code with IO_uring usage. When turning to Claude AI to help in sorting through the issue, patches were devised that can deliver up to a "literally yield a 50-80x improvement on the io_uring side for idle systems." The code is on its way to the Linux kernel...
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      Gigabyte MZ33-AR1: A Uniquely Positioned AMD EPYC 9005 Motherboard For Open-Source Firmware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 is a single socket AMD EPYC 9004/9005 E-ATX server motherboard for those wanting up to 24 RDIMMs, dual 10 Gigabit LAN, and plenty of storage potential via six MCIO connectors and four PCIe Gen5 x16 slots. Beyond offering nice capabilities for this modern AMD EPYC server motherboard at a ~$700 USD price point, it's uniquely positioned for an open-source firmware future thanks to ongoing work around AMD openSIL and hopefully followed by OpenBMC.
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      Mediatek MT7902 WiFi Finally Seeing Open-Source Linux Driver Activity

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    When searching for "MT7902" and "Linux" there is no shortage of users asking about Linux driver support for the Mediatek MT7902 WiFi chipset or users complaining about their MT7902 WiFi not working under Linux with that chipset found in numerous laptops in recent years. Fortunately, there is finally Linux driver support for the MT7902 surfacing for review on the Linux kernel mailing list...
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      Weston 15.0 Wayland Compositor Released With Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    After delays, Weston 15.0 shipped this morning as the latest feature release to this reference Wayland compositor. Weston 15.0 comes in heavy on new features - including a Vulkan renderer in experimental form...
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      Linux 7.0 Speeds Up Reclaiming File-Backed Large Folios By 50~75%

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Merged on Wednesday were some additional memory management "MM" updates for the Linux 7.0 merge window. Most interesting out of these latest three dozen patches is support for batched unmapping of file-backed large folios...
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      Simdjson Shows More Speed-Ups Possible For SIMD In JSON Parsing: Another 30% Boost

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Simdjson is the open-source project for high performance JSON parsing by leveraging SIMD instructions for "parsing gigabytes of JSON per second." Notably it showed years ago the huge performance advantage to using AVX-512 in JSON parsing for surprisingly big benefits. Simdjson has continued advancing since then with various optimizations over the years and today is out with simdjson 4.3 that brings yet more SIMD optimizations...