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Linux 6.15-rc6 Released With AMD Performance Fix & Other Bugs Addressed

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May

Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.15-rc6 today with hopes of releasing Linux 6.15 stable in two weeks...

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Linux 6.15 Fix Merged For Sizable Performance Regression On Newer AMD CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May

At the end of April I reported on a significant performance regression affecting newer AMD CPUs and was bisected to a change in the AMD SRSO mitigation handling for Zen 4/5 processors with the Linux 6.15 kernel. The fix for that significant performance regression was merged today ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15-rc6 release...

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Linux 6.15 Adds Support For Several More Gaming Controllers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May

Merged today to Linux Git ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc6 release is support for several more gaming controllers...

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Intel Arc Graphics B570 & B580 Gaming Performance On Linux For Mid 2025

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May

A number of Phoronix readers have been inquiring in recent weeks around seeing updated Linux graphics/gaming benchmarks for the Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics cards. So for your viewing pleasure today is a look at the Arc Graphics B580 and B570 graphics cards on Ubuntu 25.04 for showing how the graphics performance have improved with the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver stack since launch.

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GSoC 2025 Projects: AI-Powered Log Analyzer For Fedora, Better AMD ROCm On Debian

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May

This week Google announced all of the accepted projects for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC). There are 1,272 accepted students/projects this year for student developers working on various interesting open-source efforts over the summer...

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The Linux Kernel Dropping Its Unused Built-In Software Echo Cancellation Code

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May

Queued up for removal in the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle is dropping "echo", a software-based echo cancellation code within the kernel intended for telecommunications use. But it's old, unmaintained, and likely not actively used...

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Intel oneDNN 3.8 Brings More CPU & GPU Performance Optimizations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May

Intel software engineers released oneDNN 3.8 to end out the week with various new performance optimizations and more...

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Bcachefs, Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS File-System Performance On Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 May

With the copy-on-write Bcachefs file-system considering its on-disk format now "soft frozen" and nearing the point of potentially removing the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag on it, a number of Phoronix readers have been requesting some fresh benchmarks of this open-source file-system. For your viewing pleasure today are some fresh benchmarks of Bcachefs and other file-systems atop the Linux 6.15 kernel being released as stable later this month. On the benchmarking block today are Bcachefs, Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS in-tree file-systems.

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KDE Plasma Will Now Make Sure Your System Doesn't Suspend When Transferring Files

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 May

KDE Plasma 6.4 embarked on its soft feature freeze this week. Thus KDE Plasma developers are now predominantly working on bug fixing and UI polishing for this next open-source desktop release...