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Mesa RADV vs. AMDVLK Vulkan Driver Performance For The AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 March

With my launch day testing of the Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards on Linux the Mesa RADV driver was used given that is what is predominantly used by Linux gamers/enthusiasts and is used out-of-the-box by all of the major Linux distributions. Last week AMD released an AMDVLK Vulkan driver with RDNA4 GPU support as the company's official open-source Vulkan API Linux driver. For those curious how the Mesa RADV and AMDVLK drivers are competing for the Radeon RX 9070 series, this article is for you with benchmarks of both drivers and both RX 9070 graphics cards.

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Arm Bringing Up Support For Newer Mali GPUs With The Open-Source Panthor Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 March

Arm engineer Karunika Choo today sent out the latest patches developing a new GPU-specific initialization framework for the Panthor open-source kernel graphics driver as part of bringing up support for newer Mali GPUs...

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Google Developing "Live Update Orchestrator" As New Means Of Live Linux Kernel Updates

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 March

While there is Kpatch, Ksplice, and other live patching solutions already in use for patching a running Linux kernel for deploying security updates without downtime, Google engineers are developing the Live Update Orchestrator as a new means of transitioning to a new updated kernel with minimal downtime...

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DAMON Self-Tuned Memory Tiering Shows Nice Improvement For Linux Servers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 March

Linux developer SeongJae Park has posted a set of patches for the Linux kernel's wonderful DAMON code to provide for self-tuned memory tiering that "just works" and is racking up some nice performance wins...

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Google Chrome Replacing FreeType With Rust-Written Skrifa For Font Handling

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 March

The Google Chrome web browser is moving away from the FreeType font rendering library and instead pursuing their Skrifa project that is written in Rust for better memory safety around handling fonts on the web...

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Miracle-WM 0.5 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Tiling Window Manager

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 March

Miracle-WM 0.5 released on Wednesday as their first update of 2025 for this Mir-based Wayland tiling window manager. With this release comes a number of new features and other enhancements...

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SoftBank Acquiring ARM Server CPU Vendor Ampere Computing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March

SoftBank Group just announced they will be acquiring Ampere Computing, the leader in ARM64 server processors that has come under increasing pressure with more of the public cloud service providers like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon/AWS turning to their own in-house ARM64 server processor designs...

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Fedora 43 Hopes To Set An Expectation That Package Builds Are Reproducible

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March

A change proposal filed for the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 development cycles hopes to establish an expectation that RPM package builds for the distribution are reproducible...

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GNOME 48 Released With New Default Font, HDR Support, New Audio Player & More

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March

GNOME 48 is officially out as the newest stable release for this open-source desktop that will be powering the likes of Fedora Workstation 42 and Ubuntu 25.04...