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Ubuntu 25.10 Planning To Use Dracut By Default

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March

For the past number of months there has been talk in the Ubuntu developer space around replacing initramfs-tools with Dracut for handling initrd generation. While there has been progress in switching to Dracut, they aren't over the finish line yet and not until Ubuntu 25.10 are they planning to use Dracut by default...

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Meta's eBPF-Powered Strobelight Software Reduced CPU Cycles By 20%

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March

Adding to the excitement around the possibilities provided by the in-kernel eBPF Linux tech, Meta shared that their Strobelight software they are working on open-sourcing for profiling across servers has yielded a 20% reduction in CPU cycles and in turn a 10-20% reduction in the number of required servers for Meta’s top services...

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SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Linux Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March

SiFive recently sent over a review sample of the much anticipated HiFive Premier P550 developer board, their newest RISC-V creation featuring four RISC-V cores, Imagination AXM-8-256 integrated GPU, Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe x16 slot, and 16GB or 32GB of RAM. The HiFive Premier P550 is a modern RISC-V developer board capable of desktop uses, developer build boxes, and similar with pricing starting out at $399 USD. Here is a look at the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 as well as comparison benchmarks of this RISC-V board to the popular Raspberry Pi single board computers.

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PipeWire 1.4 Released With MIDI 2.0 Support & Other New Features

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March

Wim Taymans of Red Hat today released PipeWire 1.4 as the newest major update for this leading open-source software to replace PulseAudio, JACK, and other solutions on the modern Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams in a very excellent way...

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Blender's Vulkan Renderer Is Making Great Progress To Production Readiness This Year

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March

With the release of Blender 4.3 last November an experimental Vulkan back-end was added and it continues to be improved upon for modernizing this 3D creation suite for digital artists and serving a variety of other purposes. The upcoming Blender 4.4 release will further refine the Vulkan support while later in the year it should be reaching production readiness...

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FreeBSD Continues Working On 802.11n/802.11ac WiFi & Other Laptop Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March

The FreeBSD Foundation paired with resources committed by AMD, Dell, and Framework are working to improve FreeBSD laptop support. In recent months there have been FreeBSD development efforts to improve the power management support with modern laptops as well as a strong focus on enhancing the WiFi driver support. A status update was issued yesterday for highlighting the latest FreeBSD laptops efforts...

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FEX 2503 Brings Fixes & Multi-Block By Default For x86_64 Linux Binaries On ARM64

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March

FEX 2503 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that enables the ability to run Linux x86_64 binaries on Linux ARM64 (AArch64) hosts...

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Mold 2.37 Linker Preps For Intel APX

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March

Rui Ueyama released Mold 2.37 today as the newest feature update to this high performance linker as an alternative to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD...

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AMD Announces "Instella" Fully Open-Source 3B Language Models

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March

Another announcement at AMD today beyond the open-source Linux driver fun for the Radeon RX 9070 series is announcing the open-sourcing of Instella as their new fully open 3B parameter language models...