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      Intel Hyper Threading Performance On The Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids-WS"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:21

    With the Intel Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor that I have been recently testing within the HP Z4 G6i workstation, there are 48 cores plus with Hyper Threading is a total of 96 threads for this high-end workstation processor with a 300 Watt TDP. For those curious about the performance impact of HT/SMT on this Intel Xeon 600 series workstation processor, here are some comparison benchmarks.
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      FSCRYPT Sees Cleanup With Linux 7.3 To Open Door For More Features Like Btrfs Encryption

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:18

    FSCRYPT is the Linux file-system encryption framework for supporting per-directory, transparent encryption. FSCRYPT so far is used by the likes of EXT4, F2FS, and CephFS. For Linux 7.3 there is an important clean-up to the FSCRYPT code to simplify it while also opening the door for new features moving forward into future kernel versions...
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      Linux Driver Posted For The PreSonus Quantum 2626: A ~$700 Thunderbolt Audio Interface

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:28

    The PreSonus Quantum 2626 is a high-end, Thunderbolt 3 based audio interface. PreSonus just maintains Windows and macOS drivers for this high-end audio interface while now an open-source Linux driver has been posted after being independently developed via reverse engineering...
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      RPM 6.1 Released With Clang Build Fixes, New Release Model

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:35

    RPM 6.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this package management system. With RPM 6.1 comes a number of features and improvements as well as a new release model...
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      Mesa 26.2.1 Released With Dozens Of Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:35

    For those preferring the tradition of waiting for the first point release of a new Mesa feature release before upgrading, Mesa 26.2.1 is available today with a healthy round of bug fixing...
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      Linux 7.3 Cleans Up The Code For Disabling Of Legacy 32-bit Time Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:21

    The Linux kernel has supported the CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME Kconfig build time option for optionally disabling of legacy 32-bit time system call support. This is intended to disable the code that uses a 32-bit integer for time that is thus not Year 2038 safe, but at the cost of breaking compatibility for legacy 32-bit applications. Even if building without Linux 32-bit time support, it turns out some 32-bit time code persisted but that is now being fixed with Linux 7.3...
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      KDE Gear 26.08 Delivers The Latest KDE App Experience

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:58

    KDE Gear 26.08 was released today to deliver the latest collection of KDE application updates...
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      X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 Prepares For First Feature Release In Five Years

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2:18

    Following today's release of XWayland 26.1 RC1, X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 was tagged. This xorg-server 26.1 release is aiming to become the first major feature release in five years, succeeding the xorg-server 21.1 series...
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      EXT4 Preps More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:55

    In addition to the IOmap improvements helping EXT4 performance in Linux 7.3, the main EXT4 feature pull request has now been submitted for this next kernel version. That pull is set to land yet more performance optimizations for EXT4...