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      Valve's Proton 11.0-2e Released To Fix EA App Issues

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:56

    CodeWeavers working with Valve today released Proton 11.0-2e as their downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 To Include Desktop Images For RISC-V

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:50

    Ubuntu Linux ISOs for RISC-V 64-bit to date have just been the server/CLI version without any desktop environment pre-seeded. But with next week's Ubuntu 26.10 release, there will now be Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop ISOs for both Ubuntu proper and a Xubuntu minimal ISO...
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      Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:58

    Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language...
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      AMD PerfOpt Boosting Prior-Gen Ryzen APU Performance For AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:38

    Last week I ran benchmarks of the new AMD PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4. In those PerfOpt benchmarks on current-gen AMD Ryzen AI APUs/SoCs the AI performance improved as much as 18~23%. Several Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing how prior-gen AMD Ryzen hardware benefited or not from PerfOpt, so here are some additional benchmarks.
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Sticks To Using GCC 15 By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:38

    From a performance and enthusiast perspective, what I personally find most disappointing and puzzling with the imminent release of Ubuntu 26.10 comes down to its default compiler version...
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      Faster Zswap With Patches To Batch The Writeback I/O

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:34

    For those making increased use of Linux's Zswap as a compressed RAM cache for swap pages amid these times of sky high RAM prices, a new patch series was posted providing some incremental performance gains for Zswap by batching the writeback I/O...
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      New AI Agent Resources Proposed For The Linux Kernel, AI Skills To Help Developers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:41

    The latest proposal for the upstream Linux kernel is introducing infrastructure for AI agent resources. Initially these agent resources would be for a skill so AI agents can automatically add a "Fixes: " tag on relevant patches for noting the first problematic Git commit automatically that a patch fixes...
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      Valve Lands VK_AMD_anti_lag Support For AMD RADV Driver In Mesa 26.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:23

    There is yet another feature to get excited about for this quarter's Mesa 26.3 release. Months in the making, the Valve-contributed VK_AMD_anti_lag support for the Radeon RADV driver was merged today for benefiting AMD Linux gamers as a nice improvement over the former implementation...
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      EXT4 Deprecates Its Journaled "data=journal" Mode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The EXT4 file-system today deprecated its journaled mode of the "data=journal" mount option. Following its deprecation, this mode is planned for removal in the year 2028...