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      Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:14

    As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support...
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      AMD ROCm 7.2.2 Brings Optimization Guide For Ryzen AI / RDNA 3.5 Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 hours ago

    ROCm 7.2.2 is out today as a small point release to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack. There are a few code changes but most notable is arguably on the documentation side...
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      LLM-Assisted Patches For Linux 7.1 May Have Negative Impact On 32-bit Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    Code now merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel may provide some negative performance implications for those still running modern Linux kernels on 32-bit hardware. A fundamental change can present cache line alignment and slab sizing implications for 32-bit Linux OS users but will provide for cleaner code with modern 64-bit computing...
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      Linus Torvalds Rejects Performance Fix "Hack" & Kconfig "Terrible Things" For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    While a lot of interesting new features and changes have been merged already for the Linux 7.1 merge window, two pull requests stand out so far for being rejected by Linus Torvalds and complete with his to-the-point commentary...
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      Ubuntu 26.04 Delivers Great Performance Improvements For AMD Strix Point, Especially For RDNA 3.5 Graphics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    As part of my ongoing testing around the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 release I have been running a lot of benchmarks. After recently showing some nice performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" with Ubuntu 26.04, several Phoronix readers inquired about any performance uplift from the more modest but still powerful Strix Point laptops like the popular Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 SKU. Here are benchmarks showing the performance of Ubuntu 26.04 in its near final state compared to Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS with its HWE stack on an ASUS Zenbook S16.
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      Nginx 1.30 Released With Multipath TCP, ECH & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Nginx 1.30 was just released as the newest stable version of this popular web server. Nginx 1.30 incorporates all of the changes from the Nginx 1.29.x mainline branch to provide a lot of new functionality like Multipath TCP (MPTCP)...
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      GNOME Mutter 50.1 Fixes Performance Regression For Some NVIDIA Driver Versions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    GNOME Shell 50.1 and Mutter 50.1 were released today as the first point releases in the GNOME 50 series...
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      X.Org Server 21.1.22 Released Due To Five New Security Vulnerabilities

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    X.Org Server 21.1.22 is out today and driven by five new security vulnerabilities being disclosed for the aging codebase. In turn these vulnerabilities also impact XWayland too and thus necessitating the XWayland 24.1.10 release...
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      Sunshine Game Streaming Introduces Vulkan Video Encode Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Sunshine v2026.413.143228 released this week as a new feature release for this self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight, an open-source game streaming client that is an implementation of the NVIDIA GameStream protocol. Notable with this Sunshine release is Vulkan Video encode support as an alternative to using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for game streaming...