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      Archinstall 4.5 For Arch Linux Brings AArch64 Improvements, RT Kernel Options

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:25

    Ahead of the October ISO refresh of the Arch Linux media, Archinstall 4.5 released today as the newest update to this convenient, text-based Arch Linux installer...
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      AMD Boosting AI/LLM Performance For Radeon iGPUs As Much As 18~23% With Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    If you have an AMD Ryzen laptop/desktop and looking to leverage AI/LLM capabilities with the integrated graphics, Linux 7.4 is going to be a real treat especially for lower-end hardware. AMD's new PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4 is set to provide some solid gains as shown in these benchmarks today across different AMD Ryzen/Radeon hardware.
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      Microsoft Announces General Availability Of WSLC: Linux Containers On Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Following the public preview of Linux containers on WSL, Microsoft today announced the general availability of WSLC for supporting Linux containers on Windows...
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      Branch Target Reuse, BTR: New Spectre V2 Attack Targeting JIT Compilers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    It's been a while since any new Spectre vulnerabilities have come to light but that's changing today. The embargo has now lifted on BTR, Branch Target Reuse as a new Spectre-V2 attack affecting just-in-time (JIT) compilers...
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      New Ubuntu Concept ISO For Snapdragon Laptops Brings First X2 Laptop Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    It's been a while since Canonical announced any new ISOs of their Ubuntu builds targeting Qualcomm Snapdragon X series laptops. But ahead of this week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta release, they shipped new Ubuntu 26.10 Snapdragon Concept images today with improved Snapdragon X1 laptop support as well as the initial Snapdragon X2 laptop support...
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      Meta Releases OpenZL 0.3 With Decompression Speed 144% Faster Than Zstd

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Just shy of one year ago Meta announced OpenZL as a format-ware compression framework focused on delivering both high compression ratios and high speed compression/decompression. OpenZL has continued making more optimizations and out today is OpenZL v0.3 and advertising some huge gains over Zstandard (Zstd) that is also worked on by Meta engineers...
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      hw-monitor 0.6 Released With Per-Process GPU Usage & Memory Reporting

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    For those after in-depth hardware and system monitoring support from the Linux desktop, hw-monitor continues to advance as one of the modern options. Released on Monday was hw-monitor 0.6 with per-process GPU reporting metrics when using capable DRM drivers like the AMDGPU, Intel i915 and Xe, and Nouveau drivers...
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      NOCL Making Progress As Mesa Gallium/OpenCL Atop NVIDIA CUDA

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    In development the past year has been the Mesa Gallium3D API implemented atop NVIDIA's CUDA driver API. Initially named "CLUDA" and now going by "NOCL", this Mesa code paired with Rusticl is working well for OpenCL atop the NVIDIA proprietary driver as a new compute option...
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      Mesa 26.3 Enables Intel's New Jay Shader Compiler By Default, Compile Times 55% Faster Or 66% Faster Than Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Over the past year Jay has been in development as a new open-source shader compiler for Intel GPUs. Alyssa Rosenzweig has been leading its development since joining Intel in 2025. For Mesa 26.3 the Jay shader compiler is being enabled by default for modern Intel graphics hardware and is around ~10% faster than the existing BRW compiler code...