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      Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:31

    One of the Direct Rendering Manager changes made for Linux 7.2 was switching to "fair" as the DRM scheduler default in place of the existing FIFO policy. The intent was on making the DRM scheduler policy more fair with this being used by AMDGPU and various other DRM kernel graphics drivers. But due to a last minute regression report, the fair policy is being reverted for Linux 7.2...
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      Mold 2.42 Delivering Greater Performance For This High Speed Linker

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:21

    It's been quiet since the Mold 2.41 release back in April while today it's now been succeeded by Mold 2.42 for deliver even greater performance out of this high speed linker...
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      Intel LLM-Scaler Ready With Muse Glimmer Support, Other LLMs & Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:12

    Intel's LLM-Scaler project that was born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative aims to make it easier to run generative AI on Arc (Pro) B-Series graphics cards with the likes of vLLM, ComfyUI, SGLang, and other popular AI software in this Docker-based pre-configured AI stack. This week new LLM-Scaler releases brought same-day support for new models and other enhancements...
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      LACT 0.10 Released With New NVIDIA Overclocking Controls, Blackwell Hotspot Sensor

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:52

    LACT is one of the popular third-party Linux GPU configuration and monitoring utilities that works across NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel graphics. This GUI provides GPU overclocking controls plus a wealth of information reporting, which is especially great considering the lack of any official GUI control panel for AMD Radeon and Intel Arc graphics on Linux. With today's LACT 0.10 release, there are yet more features in tow...
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      QEMU 11.1 Released With Numerous Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:42

    For those using QEMU as part of the open-source virtualization stack, QEMU 11.1 is now available with a number of new feature enhancements and fixes...
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      Redox OS Enjoys installer Improvements, Performance Enhancements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:47

    A new blog post out today from the Redox OS crew highlights all of the interesting improvements made to this Rust-based, open-source operating system over the course of July...
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      Intel CPU Microcode 20260811 Release Fixes Eight Security Issues

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Intel today published their 20260811 CPU microcode updates to fix a variety of issues for exciting processors, including shipping the first new microcode images for Bartlett Lake and Wildcat Lake. The new microcode updates stretch back to Intel Core Gen10 processors...
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      OpenAI Brings ChatGPT Desktop App To Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    OpenAI announced today they have brought their ChatGPT Desktop application to Linux and is currently in preview form...
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      Analyzing Fedora's Slow Performance On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro With Intel Panther Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    As part of my recent Linux testing of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro I had recently benchmarked six Linux distributions on the Framework Laptop 13 Pro. CachyOS was the fastest to not much surprise but arguably the most surprising aspect was finding Fedora Workstation 44 typically running slower than the five other modern Linux distributions benchmarked. Here's a follow-up to that with more Fedora Linux benchmarks and the cause/workaround for Fedora's slower performance on the Intel Panther Lake laptop.