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      Linux Mint To Begin Publishing HWE ISOs For Better Hardware Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:53

    Due to Linux Mint moving to a longer development cycle with their next release not due until December, Linux Mint developers have decided to begin regularly publishing hardware enablement "HWE" ISOs with newer Linux kernel versions to provide better support for new hardware...
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      CachyOS Linux Performance Leading Over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Fedora Workstation 44

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:45

    It's not too entirely surprising given the aggressive stance that the CachyOS Linux distribution has taken on out-of-the-box performance, but for those curious, it continues largely leading over the newly-released Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 distributions for the leading performance on modern hardware.
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      AerynOS Updated With Linux 7.0, Gaming Optimized Kernel Flavor

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:57

    AerynOS, the Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS, is out with a new monthly ISO refresh and details on other recent improvements to this original, from-scratch Linux distribution...
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      Linux 7.1-rc1 Showing Off Some Wins On AMD Ryzen Threadripper

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:23

    My initial testing of the Linux 7.1 development kernel on various systems in the lab continues going well. Aside from one main regression in a synthetic micro-benchmark appearing on multiple systems, not seeing much in the way of Linux 7.1 performance concerns thus far and seeing some nice performance gains in select workloads...
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      GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C/C++ Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:37

    GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release...
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      3mdeb Gets More Bits Of AMD openSIL & Coreboot Working On Ryzen AM5 Motherboard

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:28

    There are two exciting initiatives taking place simultaneously by the 3mdeb consulting firm: the open-source developers are working on an open-source firmware stack for a Gigabyte EPYC server motherboard and they are also working on a similar Coreboot + AMD openSIL port to a Ryzen AM5 consumer motherboard, the MSI PRO B850-P WiFi. While not yet ready for end-users, 3mdeb published their latest blog post to highlight their latest milestone achieved with the openSIL + Coreboot bring-up on the MSI PRO B850-P motherboard...
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      AMD Posts Newest Linux Patches To Accelerate Page Migration For Better Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:12

    Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was the newest revision of a patch series originally started in early 2025 by a NVIDIA engineer for accelerating page migration. Now being worked on by AMD engineers, this accelerated page migration via batch copies and hardware offloading continues to show promising results...
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      Servo Browser Engine Seeing Progress On FreeBSD Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:52

    Following the recent Servo 0.1 release, the Servo project has published their latest monthly status report to highlight recent development efforts around this modern open-source browser engine...
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      ACPI CPPC v4 Support Being Worked On For Linux ACPI CPPC Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:45

    Last year with the ACPI 6.6 specification release came revised Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) support for enhancing the capabilities around this standard for OS management of the performance of CPU cores using an abstract performance scale. That CPPC v4 support is now being worked on for the acpi_cppc Linux driver by NVIDIA engineers...