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      Improved Performance & Resource Usage For XFS Checksumming With Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:05

    Among the many VFS pull requests merged as the initial material for the in-development Linux 7.4, the VFS IOmap pull introduced lazy bounce buffering for checksummed reads. This improvement is benefiting checksumming on XFS with improved performance and lower resource usage...
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      Intel & AMD Now Collaborating On Software Optimizations With PyTorch/oneDNN

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:50

    Intel has long worked on tuning their oneDNN neural network library for their hardware and saw its adoption by PyTorch and other AI frameworks. AMD has maintained ZenDNN as their downstream fork that is oneDNN API compatible while catering to their Zen processor designs. As an interesting twist, AMD and Intel jointly announced today they will be collaborating around oneDNN for PyTorch and pushing the AMD Zen improvements into oneDNN...
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      Intel Core Ultra 9 Arrow Lake On Star Labs StarFighter Shows Nice Gains On Ubuntu 26.10

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:25

    For those running a Star Labs StarFighter Ultra or other Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake laptop, the recent Ubuntu 26.10 release is providing some nice performance gains over the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Here is a look at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.10 performs with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H over dozens of different benchmarks.
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      Linux Foundation Estimates 25% Of New Pull Requests To Be Low-Quality AI Slop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:18

    The Linux Foundation published a new study today around the impact of generative AI on open-source software development. One key takeaway is that ~25% of new open-source software pull requests amount to AI slop...
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      Linux Coredumps Via Sockets Can Be Much Smaller Now With Sparse Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:11

    Added to the Linux kernel last year was Coredump support via Unix domain sockets as an alternative to the pipe-based Coredumps. With code now merged for Linux 7.4, the core dumps via sockets has the potential of being much smaller thanks to sparse support. In extreme cases they can be 1% of the size without sparse support...
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      BFS Removed With Linux 7.4 As Old UnixWare File-System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:13

    Linus Torvalds began honoring pull requests overnight of new code entering the Linux 7.4 kernel -- as well as removing old code. BFS is the latest obsolete file-system removed from the mainline kernel...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8.1 Released With Dozens Of Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:04

    Following last week's release of Plasma 6.8, the Plasma 6.8.1 point release is out today with dozens of bug fixes...
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      Omarchy 4.5 Expanding To AArch64 World With Snapdragon X & NVIDIA N1X Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:52

    The Omarchy Linux distribution to date has been centered on x86_64 support for this Arch Linux distribution. Released today was Omarchy 4.5-RC1 and with this new version there is initial AArch64 support centered around Snapdragon X and NVIDIA N1X laptop support...
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      Linux 7.4 Adding New Emulation Function For Some Old CPUs That May Soon Be Phased Out

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:26

    Linux 7.4 is seeing a new emulation function added for cmpxchg() for compare and exchange. This is being done so that two-byte cmpxchg() can be used in common Linux kernel code that is already natively supported on newer CPU architectures. The pull request notes though that these old CPU architectures might no longer be supported by the Linux kernel moving ahead...