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      Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop Adjusting Its Behavior Under Memory Pressure

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:40

    The Ubuntu 26.10 desktop is adjusting its default out-of-memory (OOM) daemon behavior when dealing with memory pressure on the system...
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      Help Linux Hardware Testing & Reviews Continue While Enjoying Phoronix Without Ads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:30

    If you missed out on the Phoronix Premium special back during the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com in June, there is another promotion now active for helping to support the site and allow for continued daily original content and relentless Linux performance benchmarking and other open-sourced focused hardware testing...
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      Linux Kernel Build Times Ready To Be Significantly Reduced With Latest Patches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:26

    The past few weeks we have eagerly been following a Linux kernel patch series after AI found some major bottlenecks in the Linux kernel build code. With AI helping to address these bottlenecks, Linux kernel build times are substantially reduced. These optimizations might be ready in time for Linux 7.4 for reducing incremental kernel build times as much as around 70%. This week the latest iteration of these patches were posted by Arm engineer Lorenzo Stoakes...
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      OpenCL 3.1.2 Released With cl_khr_command_buffer Promoted

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:33

    The Khronos Group today released the newest revision of the OpenCL specification with a handful of changes...
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      Jemalloc 5.4 Released With Portability Improvements, Code Cleanups

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Earlier this year Meta announced a renewed investment into the jemalloc memory allocator that's been popular for server and HPC use among various desktop use-cases too. After stagnating a bit in recent years, Jemalloc has been off to seeing new developments since Meta's announcement and out today is Jemalloc 5.4 as the latest step forward...
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      Intel Granite Rapids WS vs. AMD Threadripper Zen 5 SMT Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    As a follow-up to the article earlier this month of the Intel Xeon 600 workstation performance against AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series in over 400 benchmarks -- including when carried out at the same core count and memory configuration -- today's article is exploring the Hyper Threading / SMT impact on both the Intel Redwood Cove and AMD Zen 5 cores for workstations.
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      Rust Issues Warning Over Key Developers Being Targeted For Compromise

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    The Rust security response working group and Crates.io team have issued a warning that a targeted attack is underway against key Rust programming language developers...
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      Mojo 1.1 Released, Now Accepting Community Contributions To The Compiler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Last month Modular's Mojo language was open-sourced following the acquisition of Modular by Qualcomm. Modular was the AI startup founded by Chris Lattner of LLVM and Swift fame. Released today was Mojo 1.1 and also marks the project recently now beginning code contributions from the community to its compiler...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 4 ISOs Published

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    The fourth monthly-ish snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is now available for testing and comes ahead of next week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta milestone...