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Ubuntu Announces Official Support For The PolarFire SoC FPGA Icicle Kit RISC-V Board

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

Following work bringing Ubuntu Linux to the RISC-V boards like the StarFive VisionFive 2, LicheeRV, Nezha, and others, Canonical today announced they have published an optimized RISC-V image for the Microchip PolarFire SoC FPGA powered "Icicle Kit" development board...

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Samba 4.18 Released With Performance Optimizations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

Samba 4.18 is out today as the popular open-source implementation of the SMB networking protocol that allows for file and print service interoperability with Microsoft Windows systems in an Active Directory (AD) environment...

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Wayland Clients Can Now Survive Qt Wayland Crashes / Compositor Restarts

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

A change merged to Qt this week can allow for Wayland clients to survive compositor restarts, such as when the compositor crashes...

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IOCB_NOWAIT For Linux Pipes Yields 10~23x Performance Improvement

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

In wanting to avoid waiting for pipes via the IOCB_NOWAIT option in order to further enhance IO_uring performance, Jens Axboe has implemented said functionality and in a simple test is seeing 10x to 23x performance improvements...

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RADV Enables Variable Rate Shading For RDNA3, RadeonSI Lands More Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

If you are an AMD Radeon RX 7900 series "RDNA3" GPU owner and don't mind running bleeding-edge open-source graphics driver code, you'll want to pull down today's Mesa 23.1-devel Git snapshot...

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Vanilla OS 2.0 Shifting From Ubuntu Base To Debian Sid

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

One of the newer Linux distributions that has been making waves is Vanilla OS as an immutable and atomic version of Ubuntu Linux that aims to provide a pleasant Linux desktop experience, close to upstream, and is augmented by the growing selection of Flatpak packages. Now though the project has decided to move from Ubuntu Linux as its base over to Debian Sid...

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Python 3.12 Alpha 6 Released With More Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 March, 2023

Python 3.12 Alpha 6 was released on Tuesday as the newest development release toward this next major Python release...

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Intel Releases x86-simd-sort v1.0 Library For High Performance AVX-512 Sorting

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 March, 2023

Last month you may recall the news of Intel having an extremely fast AVX-512 sorting library they published as open-source and found adoption already by the popular Numpy Python library. In the case of Numpy it could deliver some 10~17x speed-ups. That header-only library has now reached version 1.0...

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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D Linux Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 March, 2023

Following last week's review of the brand new AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and then moving on to looking at the Ryzen 9 7900X3D gaming performance, today's Linux hardware coverage on Phoronix is looking at the Ryzen 9 7900X3D Linux performance in other system/CPU workloads aside from gaming.