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Linux 6.13 To Tune Intel Granite Rapids For Better Performance Out-Of-The-Box

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 November, 2024

A patch queued yesterday ino the Linux power management subsystem's "linux-next" branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window will tune Intel Xeon Granite Rapids processors for better performance out-of-the-box...

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Linux To Allow Disabling TPM PCR Integrity Protection Due To Performance Bottleneck

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 November, 2024

Linux 6.10 introduced TPM bus encryption and integrity protection for enhancing the Trusted Platform Module support to protect against interposers from compromising them with TPM sniffing attacks. There is now a new option being added to opt-out of this protection due to a discovered performance bottleneck...

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Intel Touch Host Controller "THC" Driver Support Being Worked On For Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 November, 2024

The newest Linux driver being developed by Intel is for the Touch Host Controller (THC) as a new high performance input tech for enhancing touch screen, touch pad, and stylus input handling...

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Bcachefs Squeezes More Fixes Into Linux 6.12

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 November, 2024

Ahead of the expected final Linux 6.12 stable kernel release this weekend, a last round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted today for this next kernel version...

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AMD Developing Next-Gen Fortran Compiler Based On Flang, Optimized For AMD GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 November, 2024

AMD today went public with details on the "AMD Next-Gen Fortran Compiler" as a new Fortran compiler they are working on based on LLVM's Flang...

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Mesa 24.3-rc2 Brings Fixes For Intel & NVK Drivers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 November, 2024

Last week Mesa 24.3 was finally branched and Mesa 24.3-rc1 subsequently issued for getting the release process kicked off for this quarterly 3D graphics driver feature release. Out today is Mesa 24.3-rc2 with an initial batch of fixes...

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Apple M4 Mac Mini With macOS vs. Intel / AMD With Ubuntu Linux Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 November, 2024

Apple last week released their latest iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro products powered by their fourth-generation M-series Apple Silicon. The new Mac Mini in particular is interesting for under $600 starting out with the all re-designed Mac Mini with 10-core M4 and now the base model having 16GB of memory. It will take some time before there is any reasonable Linux support on the M4 hardware with Asahi Linux, but for those curious about how the M4 Mac Mini with macOS compares to AMD Ryzen and Intel Core CPUs under Linux, here are some preliminary benchmarks.

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Ubuntu 25.04 To Further Enhance Its Installer, Aims For Linux 6.14 Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 November, 2024

Canonical's Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop, Oliver Smith, has shared some early roadmap plans for the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle...

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RISC-V Motherboard For Framework 13 Pricing Starts At $368 In Early Access, $928 For Laptop

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 November, 2024

Framework Computer has been promoting a RISC-V motherboard option for their Framework Laptop 13 to complement their existing Intel Core and AMD Ryzen motherboard options. This RISC-V motherboard is being developed in cooperation with DeepComputing. Early access pricing and more details on this quad-core StarFive JH7110 powered mainboard for the Framework 13 have now been announced...