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      Huawei Proposes Enabling CPU Boost By Default For ACPI CPPC Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:24

    For those using the generic ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) CPUFreq driver such as on a number of ARM64 Linux server platforms, if the CPUs support a "boost" mode it's disabled by default. But a patch from Huawei is now looking to enable CPU boost mode by default on Linux...
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      GNOME Mutter Improves Damage Tracking For Secondary GPU Copy Buffers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:12

    As an early improvement to Mutter to look forward to with GNOME 52, the compositor is now tracking damage for secondary GPU copy buffers. This should improve the experience for those with multi-GPU setups such as some hybrid laptops...
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      Microsoft Releases Microsoft Defender For The Linux Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:52

    Microsoft's newest software release for Linux is... Microsoft Defender for the Linux desktop. Microsoft Defender has been ported to Linux to "secure Linux desktops" with Microsoft acknowledging that "more developers begin to use Linux desktops" and thus bringing their security application and threat-protection product to Linux desktops to complement their prior ill-used Linux server support...
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      Framework Computers Triples Their Financial Support To CachyOS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    In addition to providing Framework systems to the CachyOS Linux distribution for optimizing the support, Framework Computers has also been providing monthly donations to the project. CachyOS confirmed today that Framework Computers has now tripled their monthly donations to this independent Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux...
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      Apple Contributes SSAF Driver To LLVM Clang For Source Code Transformations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Apple compiler engineers have contributed to upstream LLVM/Clang today a Scalable Static Analysis Framework (SSAF) driver for whole-program based analysis and source-to-source code transformations...
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      Epic Games To Improve Easy Anti-Cheat On Linux With Anti-Cheat Systemd Service & eBPF

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    In addition to Epic Games announced a preview of their new Epic Games Launcher, including Linux support, they also announced plans to improve their Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software on Linux. Along with this improved EAC they are also working on official Linux support for the popular Fortnite game...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages Provide Some Additional Uplift On AMD EPYC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    In addition to Ubuntu 26.10 itself delivering some nice performance gains on Ubuntu 26.10 for AMD EPYC servers and other hardware, the optional and currently-unofficial amd64v3 package archive also provides additional performance uplift. Here is a look quantifying the performance impact of amd64v3 packages on AMD EPYC 9005 series servers.
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      HP EliteBook 6 G1q Powered By Snapdragon X1 Plus Sees Linux Patches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    Canonical engineer Juerg Haefliger posted a set of Device Tree patches in working to support the mainline Linux kernel on the HP EliteBook 6 G1q laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Plus SoC...
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      Linux Finally Making It Easier To Answer The Question: "Is This RISC-V System RVA23?"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    The RISC-V RVA23 profile is a big deal for reducing fragmentation in the RISC-V ecosystem and standardizing more of the ISA to make it easier to distribute modern RISC-V binaries and the like. Modern versions of Ubuntu mandate RVA23 even though compliant hardware is still quite limited. Somewhat surprisingly, only coming about now is an easy ability for Linux users to find the answer to "is my RISC-V system RVA23 compliant?" Pending Linux kernel patches are finally offering a one-shot way of telling you...