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      Snapdragon X2 Performance On Linux Exceeding Expectations In Initial Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    For your viewing pleasure today are the first Linux benchmarks of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme on Linux using the new Ubuntu 26.10 X1E Concept ISO for Snapdragon X laptop support on Linux. The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme flagship SoC is tested within the ASUS Zenbook A16 UX3607OA laptop.
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      PHP Updates Released For Two Critical Code Execution Vulnerabilities

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 were just released to fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow for unauthenticated remote code execution. Server administrators are advised to update immediately...
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      AMD Working On Ryzen Overclocking Driver For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    AMD recently published patches for the Linux kernel to implement AOD, an AMD Overclocking driver for Ryzen processors. Linux enthusiasts have long sought an official AMD Ryzen CPU overclocking driver for Linux akin to Ryzen Master on Windows and it's finally coming, at least from the kernel driver perspective...
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      Linux 7.4 To Close Files Synchronously For close_range, exec & exit

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Of the many VFS changes to be merged for Linux 7.4 is now closing files synchrously for close_range, exec, and exit calls. In turn when needing to close many file descriptors this provides for much lower latency than the status quo...
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      Fwupd Working Toward Proper Android Integration

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Google Chromebooks already have a mandate for nice Fwupd support with the Linux Vendor Firmware (LVFS) while now there is work on improving the Android integration for Fwupd/LVFS...
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      Meta Makes Improvements To Kernfs Scalability With Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Kernfs as the functions/frameworks used for creating pseudo file-systems on Linux like sysfs and configfs have seen some nice scalability work carried out by Meta. After Meta engineers discovered some system daemons getting stuck for minutes on their massive fleet of servers, they uncovered some scalability bottlenecks within Kernfs that now look to be resolved for Linux 7.4...
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      AMD HIPRT 3.2 Released With Medusa APU Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    AMD HIPRT 3.2 released today as the first update to this HIP ray-tracing library since the beginning of 2026...
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      XFS Sees Small Performance Optimizations & Bug Fixes For Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The XFS file-system updates have landed for the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel...
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      Dynamic PAMT Merged For Linux 7.4 To Help Intel Servers Save Precious RAM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Dynamic PAMT has made it for Linux 7.4! Dynamic PAMT is a new feature for reducing memory overhead on Intel TDX servers where there may not be many concurrent virtual machines occupying a majority of the system. In today's world with high memory prices and tight availability, Dymanic PAMT provides nice memory overhead reduction for modern Intel Xeon servers...