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      USB4STREAM Merged For Linux 7.2 To Quickly Send Data Between USB4 Connected Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21:00

    As part of today's USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window, USB4STREAM was merged as a nifty and exciting addition to opening up some interesting USB4 connnectivity use-cases for high speed, low latency data transfers...
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      Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 Lays Out Tuning Recommendations For More Workloads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:45

    Back in March Intel announced the Optimization Zone as a new initiative for helping server administrators and developers better maximize the performance of different workloads running on Intel hardware. Out today is the Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 release with more workloads now covered for squeezing out the most performance on Intel CPUs...
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      Steam Machine Launches, Priced $1049 To $1428 USD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:33

    Valve today finally revealed pricing on their SteamOS Linux-powered Steam Machine living room PC. Given the ongoing RAM and storage pricing pressure, the Steam Machine pricing comes in at the high-end...
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      Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:30

    Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.
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      Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:37

    Over the past half-year, Xfwl4 has been developed as a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. Released this weekend was the first preview release of Xfwl4 in alpha form...
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      Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:09

    It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status...
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      AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:53

    Back in March AMD introduced ROCDXG to improve their Windows Subsystem for Linux support. This improved Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" support with the ROCm compute stack is a cleaneer architecture, open-source compared to their legacy WSL code having closed bits, and more robust handling. Today they issued a new ROCDXG library release to further enhance their WSL support...
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      Miracle-WM Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Aiming For v1.0 Later This Year

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:12

    Miracle-WM 0.10 released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor. With this new release is also acknowledgement they are hoping to cross the "1.0" milestone later in the year...
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      Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:33

    Merged today to Mesa 26.1 is the Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" as a new GUI created by developers on Valve's open-source Linux graphics team. The Ray-Tracing Inspector is designed to help in analyzing and optimizing the Vulkan ray-tracing performance as part of their continued work on further bettering the Radeon RADV RT performance for Steam Play / Linux gaming...