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      AMD PerfOpt Boosting Prior-Gen Ryzen APU Performance For AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:38

    Last week I ran benchmarks of the new AMD PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4. In those PerfOpt benchmarks on current-gen AMD Ryzen AI APUs/SoCs the AI performance improved as much as 18~23%. Several Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing how prior-gen AMD Ryzen hardware benefited or not from PerfOpt, so here are some additional benchmarks.
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Sticks To Using GCC 15 By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:38

    From a performance and enthusiast perspective, what I personally find most disappointing and puzzling with the imminent release of Ubuntu 26.10 comes down to its default compiler version...
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      Faster Zswap With Patches To Batch The Writeback I/O

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:34

    For those making increased use of Linux's Zswap as a compressed RAM cache for swap pages amid these times of sky high RAM prices, a new patch series was posted providing some incremental performance gains for Zswap by batching the writeback I/O...
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      New AI Agent Resources Proposed For The Linux Kernel, AI Skills To Help Developers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:41

    The latest proposal for the upstream Linux kernel is introducing infrastructure for AI agent resources. Initially these agent resources would be for a skill so AI agents can automatically add a "Fixes: " tag on relevant patches for noting the first problematic Git commit automatically that a patch fixes...
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      Valve Lands VK_AMD_anti_lag Support For AMD RADV Driver In Mesa 26.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:23

    There is yet another feature to get excited about for this quarter's Mesa 26.3 release. Months in the making, the Valve-contributed VK_AMD_anti_lag support for the Radeon RADV driver was merged today for benefiting AMD Linux gamers as a nice improvement over the former implementation...
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      EXT4 Deprecates Its Journaled "data=journal" Mode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    The EXT4 file-system today deprecated its journaled mode of the "data=journal" mount option. Following its deprecation, this mode is planned for removal in the year 2028...
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      COSMIC Epoch 1.10 Released With Launcher Now Using GPU Accelerated Rendering

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.10 as the newest incremental update to this Rust-based desktop developed in-step with their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
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      Ubuntu Currently Suffering From Sustained DDoS Attack

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    Those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources today are finding the site inoperable amid what's now confirmed as an ongoing distributed denial of service attack...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Nice I/O Performance Wins Over Ubuntu 26.04 On AMD EPYC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    While Ubuntu 26.10 is not a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and thus will see limited enterprise deployments compared to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, for those not after that long-term deployment support and preferring to live more on the leading-edge, Ubuntu 26.10 is delivering some nice performance gains on current 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" hardware.