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      Patch Posted To Enable Intel FRED By Default On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21:03

    Following today's article exploring the performance benefits of Intel Flexible Return and Event Delivery "FRED" with Panther Lake and also pointing out the rather obscure nature of FRED being disabled-by-default, an Intel Linux kernel engineer posted a patch to now enable FRED by default for better performance...
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      Cloudflare Details Their Upgrade To EPYC Turin For 2x Throughput, 50% Better Perf/Watt

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19:28

    Cloudflare's technical blog posts about their hardware and software efforts are always a treat to read. Their latest fascinating technical content is on their newest "Gen 13" server platform based around AMD EPYC Turin where they are now achieving 2x throughput and 50% better performance-per-Watt thanks to these latest-generation AMD EPYC server processors paired with software improvements too...
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      XMMS Codebase Brought Back To Life By AI With GTK4 + GStreamer/PipeWire Port

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:30

    Longtime Linux desktop users will likely remember the glorious days of the XMMS music player inspired by Winamp. It's been about two decades since the last official release but thanks to AI there is now a modern port of the codebase to GTK4 and GStreamer/PipeWire...
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      Intel FRED Can Yield Great Performance - FRED Benchmarks On Panther Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:20

    With Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop SoCs, the Xe3-based Arc B390 graphics and much improved CPU performance capture much of the spotlight. One new capability with Panther Lake that isn't featured as much though is the new FRED capability with Flexible Return and Event Delivery. Today's Intel Panther Lake testing is looking at the very interesting performance impact of FRED on Linux.
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      Firefox 149 Now Available With XDG Portal File Picker, Rust-Based JPEG-XL Decoder

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:06

    Firefox 149.0 release binaries are now available with a wide assortment of improvements for this month's update to the cross-platform Mozilla web browser solution...
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      Linux's sched_ext Will Prioritize Idle SMT Siblings For Better Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:04

    A change to the Linux kernel's extensible scheduler class "sched_ext" for allowing nifty scheduler implementations via BPF programs will begin to prioritize SMT siblings to help with better performance...
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      Qt 6.11 Toolkit Released With "The Same 3D Capabilities As A Game Engine"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:38

    Qt 6.11 is out as the latest version of this cross-platform toolkit used by the KDE desktop and widely by both open-source and closed-source applications...
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      Ubuntu Maker Canonical Joins The Rust Foundation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:27

    Canonical announced today that they have joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member...
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      AMD Posts Latest "pghot" Code For Overhauling Linux Hot Page Tracking & Promotion

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:15

    One of the core Linux infrastructure improvements that AMD engineers have been working on recently is pghot as a hot-page tracking and promotion subsystem. This proposed addition to the Linux kernel could be quite beneficial especially for those using modern AMD EPYC servers with CXL and multiple memory tiers...