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      Another Dozen Vulnerabilities Found In The X.Org Server & XWayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:31

    With the assistance of AI, another dozen security vulnerabilities affecting both the conventional X.Org Server as well as XWayland were made public this evening...
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      New Patches For Linux's Zswap Show Major Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:56

    Amid multiple ongoing innovations being pursued in the Linux memory management space amid sky high RAM prices, a new patch series posted on Monday aim to enhance the Zswap performance for this compressed RAM cache for swap pages...
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      Canonical Reaffirms Plans For Ubuntu 27.04 To Use ntpd-rs By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    Back in March Canonical announced switching to ntpd-rs was its next target as part of transitioning more Ubuntu Linux system components to Rust-based implementations. This time synchronization package is available for testing in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release while it aims to be the default for Ubuntu 27.04...
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      Meta Engineer's Linux Patches For Boosting AMD P-State / Steam Deck Gaming Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Back in July I wrote about AMD P-State driver patches boosting 1%-low frame rates for gaming by as much as 31%. That work was done by David Vernet who is a Linux kernel engineer/hacker at Mesa. This week Vernet presented on the topic at the Linux Plumbers Conference happening in Prague...
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      NVIDIA Vera HPC Performance Benchmarks Take On AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    While most everyone understandably likes to talk about AI these days, one of the areas of NVIDIA's Vera CPU I have been most eager to test has been for conventional high performance computing (HPC) workloads. HPC was talked up as one of Vera's strengths thanks to its 1.2TB/s LPDDR5x memory bandwidth and custom Olympus cores. Vera is seeing deployments at HPC labs like Los Alamos. With recently having unfettered remote access to a dual NVIDIA Vera server, I ran through a variety of HPC workloads and similar performance benchmarks. Here is a look at how NVIDIA Vera performs against AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon, including with CPU power and frequency metrics.
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      Vulkan API Improvements Coming For The AMD Polaris GPUs With Mesa RADV

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has done an incredible job improving older AMD GPU support under Linux with migrating GCN 1.0/1.1 era hardware to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver and an assortment of other improvements for various older Radeon GPUs. The newest work is on enhancing the RADV Vulkan driver support for old Radeon RX 400/500 "Polaris" graphics cards...
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      IBM & Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    IBM and Red Hat announced today they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across popular Java libraries...
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      The Importance Of Intel's LPMD For Linux Gaming Performance & Power Efficiency

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Intel's LPMD project as the Low Power Mode Daemon for modern Intel Core Ultra desktops and laptops is quite important for achieving peak performance and optimal power efficiency. Here are some of Intel's own findings on the importance of LPMD for Linux gaming..
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      Blender 6.0 May End Up Removing OpenGL Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    With Blender 5.0 having nice Vulkan API support that's now grown mature, Blender developers are contemplating on potentially removing OpenGL support in Blender 6.0...