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      AMD Working On Ryzen Overclocking Driver For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:24

    AMD recently published patches for the Linux kernel to implement AOD, an AMD Overclocking driver for Ryzen processors. Linux enthusiasts have long sought an official AMD Ryzen CPU overclocking driver for Linux akin to Ryzen Master on Windows and it's finally coming, at least from the kernel driver perspective...
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      Linux 7.4 To Close Files Synchronously For close_range, exec & exit

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:55

    Of the many VFS changes to be merged for Linux 7.4 is now closing files synchrously for close_range, exec, and exit calls. In turn when needing to close many file descriptors this provides for much lower latency than the status quo...
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      Fwupd Working Toward Proper Android Integration

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:16

    Google Chromebooks already have a mandate for nice Fwupd support with the Linux Vendor Firmware (LVFS) while now there is work on improving the Android integration for Fwupd/LVFS...
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      Meta Makes Improvements To Kernfs Scalability With Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:54

    Kernfs as the functions/frameworks used for creating pseudo file-systems on Linux like sysfs and configfs have seen some nice scalability work carried out by Meta. After Meta engineers discovered some system daemons getting stuck for minutes on their massive fleet of servers, they uncovered some scalability bottlenecks within Kernfs that now look to be resolved for Linux 7.4...
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      AMD HIPRT 3.2 Released With Medusa APU Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:40

    AMD HIPRT 3.2 released today as the first update to this HIP ray-tracing library since the beginning of 2026...
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      XFS Sees Small Performance Optimizations & Bug Fixes For Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:30

    The XFS file-system updates have landed for the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel...
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      Dynamic PAMT Merged For Linux 7.4 To Help Intel Servers Save Precious RAM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:26

    Dynamic PAMT has made it for Linux 7.4! Dynamic PAMT is a new feature for reducing memory overhead on Intel TDX servers where there may not be many concurrent virtual machines occupying a majority of the system. In today's world with high memory prices and tight availability, Dymanic PAMT provides nice memory overhead reduction for modern Intel Xeon servers...
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      COSMIC Epoch 1.11 Released With Wayland xdg-dialog-v1, Better Multi-GPU Handling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    System76 developers just released COSMIC Epoch 1.11 as the newest point release to their Rust-written open-source desktop environment catering to their in-house Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
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      Improved Performance & Resource Usage For XFS Checksumming With Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    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...