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      SQLite 3.54 Released With Faster Performance, Drops Windows XP Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:41

    SQLite 3.54 released today for this wildly popular embedded SQL database engine used by countless applications and other software. With SQLite 3.54, support for Microsoft Windows XP and older is finally removed...
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      Valve's Proton 11.0-2e Released To Fix EA App Issues

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    CodeWeavers working with Valve today released Proton 11.0-2e as their downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 To Include Desktop Images For RISC-V

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    Ubuntu Linux ISOs for RISC-V 64-bit to date have just been the server/CLI version without any desktop environment pre-seeded. But with next week's Ubuntu 26.10 release, there will now be Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop ISOs for both Ubuntu proper and a Xubuntu minimal ISO...
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      Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language...
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      AMD PerfOpt Boosting Prior-Gen Ryzen APU Performance For AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Last week I ran benchmarks of the new AMD PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4. In those PerfOpt benchmarks on current-gen AMD Ryzen AI APUs/SoCs the AI performance improved as much as 18~23%. Several Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing how prior-gen AMD Ryzen hardware benefited or not from PerfOpt, so here are some additional benchmarks.
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Sticks To Using GCC 15 By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    From a performance and enthusiast perspective, what I personally find most disappointing and puzzling with the imminent release of Ubuntu 26.10 comes down to its default compiler version...
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      Faster Zswap With Patches To Batch The Writeback I/O

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    For those making increased use of Linux's Zswap as a compressed RAM cache for swap pages amid these times of sky high RAM prices, a new patch series was posted providing some incremental performance gains for Zswap by batching the writeback I/O...
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      New AI Agent Resources Proposed For The Linux Kernel, AI Skills To Help Developers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The latest proposal for the upstream Linux kernel is introducing infrastructure for AI agent resources. Initially these agent resources would be for a skill so AI agents can automatically add a "Fixes: " tag on relevant patches for noting the first problematic Git commit automatically that a patch fixes...
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      Valve Lands VK_AMD_anti_lag Support For AMD RADV Driver In Mesa 26.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    There is yet another feature to get excited about for this quarter's Mesa 26.3 release. Months in the making, the Valve-contributed VK_AMD_anti_lag support for the Radeon RADV driver was merged today for benefiting AMD Linux gamers as a nice improvement over the former implementation...