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Wine 10.8 Released With Performance Improvement

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 May

Wine 10.8 is out today as the newest bi-weekly test release for this open-source solution to enjoy Windows games and apps on Linux. Wine is what also forms the basis of Valve's Proton for Steam Play for a great gaming experience on Linux...

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Direct I/O For DMA-BUF Can Yield A Big Performance Win

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 May

Smart device manufacturer HONOR has posted a patch series adding direct I/O support to DMA-BUF with the "DMA_BUF_IOCTL_RW_FILE" flag. In turn this direct I/O use can yield significant throughput improvements and lower latency to help with AI model loading, real-time data streaming, and other uses...

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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Delivers Best Performance On Linux Over Windows 11 - Even With Gaming

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 May

Now having shown the very strong AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance for this "Strix Halo" SoC with Radeon 8060S iGPU for its integrated graphics, you may be wondering on the same hardware how this compares to Microsoft Windows 11. Today's article is looking at the Microsoft Windows 11 Pro performance as shipped by HP on their ZBook Ultra 14 G1a laptop compared to Ubuntu 25.04 with a clean install.

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Asahi Linux Highlights Recent Upstream Efforts In Linux 6.15, Other Ongoing Efforts

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 May

With the Linux 6.15 kernel soon to debut as stable, the Asahi Linux project issued a new blog post outlining some of the new code they managed to get upstream for this next mainline kernel version as well as some of their other efforts for enabling Linux on modern Apple Silicon hardware...

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Ubuntu 25.10 Planning For Good NVIDIA On Wayland Experience, VRR & RISC-V Desktop

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 May

A public Ubuntu 25.10 desktop road-map was published today to outline some of the plans that Canonical engineers are beginning to work on ahead of the next Ubuntu Linux release in October...

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AMD Is Hiring Again To Help Enhance Ryzen On Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 May

AMD is once again hiring more Linux engineer(s) to work on their Ryzen client efforts under Linux with next-gen hardware enablement, enhancing features/support for existing Ryzen systems, and related efforts...

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Google Posts New Version Of Live Update Orchestrator For Speedy Kernel Updates In Production Environments

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 May

Back in March Google unveiled the Live Update Orchestrator "LUO" as a new means of live kernel updates for running production systems with a particular emphasis on servers running cloud workloads. A second iteration of the Live Update Orchestrator patches were posted for review today...

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Lenovo Thinkbook 16 X1 Plus Laptop Sees Linux Patches But Not Yet Ready For Daily Use

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 May

Device Tree patches have been posted for enabling Linux support on the Lenovo Thinkbook 16 G7 QOY powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Plus SoC...

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Intel Core Ultra 7 256V "Lunar Lake" Linux Performance In Mid-2025 vs. Launch Day

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 May

Given the significant gains to the Intel Arrow Lake performance on Linux since launch that I showcased last month on Phoronix, I was also eager to see how the Intel Lunar Lake performance has evolved since its debut last year. In this article is a look at those relatively weak launch-day Linux performance numbers for the Core Ultra 7 256V compared to where they are performing now on Ubuntu 25.04 for showing how far the Intel Lunar Lake performance has evolved since last September.