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      Linux 7.3-rc6 Released: Normal For The New "AI Normal"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 hours ago

    Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks...
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      OpenCourant: Rocky Linux Developers Create Community Fork Of OpenRadioss

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 hours ago

    This week was the surprising and unfortunate decision of Siemens shutting down the OpenRadioss project as the four year old open-source project started by Altair Engineering with their prominent Radioss finite element solver. Siemens didn't just end the project but they shutdown the GitHub repository that hosted the open-source code and removed other resources that had built around it. Fortunately, there's a new community fork of OpenRadioss as OpenCourant...
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      MGLRU-FG Delivering Up To 10~40% Higher Performance For Linux In Some Tests

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    Linux's Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" has already achieved nice performance gains for Linux in recent years by optimizing page reclaims and improves performance under memory pressure. The new MGLRU-FG patches aim to take things further...
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      NVIDIA's Results Of Conducting Wayland vs. X.Org Latency Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer's conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency...
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      Linux Begins Seeing Workarounds For Fujitsu MONAKA CPU Bugs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes after two years of seeing various Monaka patches to the GCC compiler and other open-source components. Now that MONAKA is announced, we are seeing more patches surface for the Linux kernel with this week seeing several workarounds for MONAKA CPU bugs...
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      AMD Sends In More New GPU Hardware Enablement For Linux 7.4, Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    We are nearing the cut-off of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem material for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. AMD this week sent in another feature pull to DRM-Next that is moving over to mostly bug fixing but does contain the enablement of some new GPU intellectual property blocks for upcoming graphics hardware...
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      openSUSE Turns To ZUPT For Post-Quantum Backups

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    OpenSUSE developers have announced they are making ZUPT available on their Linux distribution as a solution for providing post-quantum backups. ZUPT combines backup creation, compression, integrity verification, and encryption all via this single open-source utility...
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      Arm Working On "TLBID" For Linux To Increase Performance On High Core Count CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    Arm sent out an initial set of patches this week working on support in the Linux kernel for TLBI Domains. This "TLBID" feature is an upcoming Arm architecture capability designed to increase performance on high core count systems...
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      The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks. This week in Toronto, Kristóf presented on this AMDGPU work that he initially began as a kernel driver development exercise after initially spending years in user-space focused on the Mesa 3D driver code...