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DM-PCACHE Merged For Linux 6.18 Along With Other DeviceMapper Changes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October

The DeviceMapper changes have been merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel that includes the new DM-PCACHE target...

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Notice: Brief Server Downtime Overnight

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October

Just a friendly heads-up that some brief downtime of Phoronix.com will happen overnight due to replacing a drive in the web server's RAID array...

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Wine 10.16 Released With Fast Synchronization Support Using NTSYNC

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October

Wine 10.16 is out today as a very exciting bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux...

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Linux 6.18 Will Be A Big Improvement For Servers Encountering DDoS Attacks

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October

A set of patches merged via the networking pull request for the Linux 6.18 will help servers better cope with distributed denial of service "DDoS" attacks. Thanks to a Google engineer there are some significant optimizations found in the Linux 6.18 kernel code for more efficiently handling of UDP receive performance under stress, such as in DDoS scenarios...

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Linux 6.18 Lands Compress-Offload API For Opus Audio Codec

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October

The sound changes were merged this week for the pngoing Linux 6.18 merge window. There is some interesting new API additions as well as new audio hardware support and enhancements to existing sound drivers...

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Rusticl Performance For AMD Strix Halo Against ROCm OpenCL

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October

After recently carrying out ROCm 7.0 benchmarks on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo", I ran some complementary tests looking at the OpenCL performance. In particular, the ROCm OpenCL performance compared to using the Mesa-based Rusticl OpenCL driver on Strix Halo. It was an interesting benchmark battle with some healthy competition.

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Linux 6.18 Device Tree Prepares For Arm C1 Nano / Pro / Platinum / Ultra CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October

In addition to the Arm and RISC-V SoC changes and new platforms/machines added for the Linux 6.18 kernel, the separate Device Tree pull request was merged for this next kernel version that also now adds the strings for the upcoming Arm C1 Nano, Pro, Platinum, and Ultra processor cores...

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Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.24 Released

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October

Intel today released a new version of their NPU Linux driver user-space components that interface with the upstream IVPU kernel driver...

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Ubuntu 25.10 Ready With "Stubble" For Better ARM64 Experience

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October

Announced over the summer by Canonical was Stubble as a way to improve the ARM64 experience by providing a minimal UEFI kernel boot stub for loading machine-specific Device Trees embedded within a kernel image. The initial focus with Stubble is on improving the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop experience on Ubuntu Linux. Thanks to some granted feature freeze exceptions, the support is ready for Ubuntu 25.10...