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CachyOS Explores Optimizing Its Kernel With AutoFDO

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 November, 2024

CachyOS continues to be a fascinating Arch Linux based distribution that pushes the boundaries of out-of-the-box performance with a variety of patches, optimization techniques, specialized package builds, and more. One of the latest areas they are exploring is making use of AutoFDO for their kernel builds...

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Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 Launches For $60 USD, 720 x 1280 7-Inch Display

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 November, 2024

Nine years after the Raspberry Pi Touch Display was announced as a 800 x 480 pixel LCD panel catering to the Raspberry Pi, today the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 was announced...

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Linux 6.12-rc6 Released With That Latest Performance Optimization & Various Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 November, 2024

Linus Torvalds has just issued the Linux 6.12-rc6 kernel release as we close in on the stable Linux 6.12 kernel release later in November...

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Rust-Based Redox OS Gets RISC-V Working, Also Able To Boot On The Raspberry Pi 4

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 November, 2024

The Redox OS open-source Rust-based operating system project is out with their newest monthly development update...

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AMD Heterogeneous CPU Design Topology Patches Coming For Linux 6.13

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 November, 2024

The latest patches from AMD Linux engineers for working on x86 heterogeneous design identification were queued last week for introduction in the Linux 6.13 kernel...

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Linux Mint Working On Night Light For Cinnamon, Collaborating With Framework Computer

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 November, 2024

The Linux Mint crew is out with their newest monthly status update that outlines the activities of this desktop Linux distribution over the course of October...

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Nice Performance Gains With SVT-AV1 2.3 Encoding On The System76 Thelio Astra

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 November, 2024

With this week's release of SVT-AV1 2.3 for open-source AV1 encoding citing significant performance improvements for running on ARM, I was eager to see how well this AV1 encoder would be performing on the new System76 Thelio Astra ARM developer desktop powered by Ampere Altra. Here are some benchmarks showing those big speed-ups for ARM-based AV1 encoding...

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Apple Silicon OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Updated This Week For Mesa 24.3

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 November, 2024

Alyssa Rosenzweig has pushed the latest Apple Silicon OpenGL "AGX Gallium3D" and Vulkan "Honeykrisp" code from the Asahi Linux development repository into the Mesa Git codebase ahead of this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release...

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Snapdragon X1 Elite CPUFreq Support Revised In Latest Linux Patches

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 November, 2024

While the mainline Linux kernel has begun seeing initial support for various Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops, various feature limitations are outstanding before these Qualcomm-powered laptops really become usable for daily use. For instance, just a few days ago the audio firmware was finally upstreamed to make setting up X1 Elite laptops easier. Another important feature as an example is CPUFreq driver support for CPU frequency scaling to ensure optimal performance and power efficiency...