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AlmaLinux 10 Beta Running Great With Nice Performance As Free/Community Alternative To RHEL 10

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 December, 2024

Along with the recent release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 beta, the AlmaLinux crew released their AlmaLinux 10 beta as the latest wares for this popular community/free alternative to upstream RHEL. I've been running some early benchmarks and testing on this AlmaLinux 10.0 Beta "Purple Lion" release and it's running well with performance right inline with upstream RHEL 10 Beta.

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AMD Updates Linux Patches For L3 Smart Data Cache Injection SDCIAE Handling

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 December, 2024

Back in August AMD posted Linux patches for L3 Smart Data Cache Injection Allocation Enforcement (SDCIAE). That L3 Smart Data Cache Injection (SDCI) work was since announced as part of the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. A second iteration of those SDCIAE were posted this week in working to get this functionality enabled for the mainline Linux kernel...

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Linux 6.14 To Support Realtek RTL8125D Rev B 2.5G Ethernet ASIC

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 December, 2024

The Linux kernel already supports the Realtek RTL8125D 2.5G Ethernet controller but additional handling is required to enable the revision B variant of this chipset, which will be coming in the next kernel cycle...

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Cloud Hypervisor 43 Brings Live Migration Over TCP, Performance Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 December, 2024

Cloud Hypervisor 43 is out as the newest version of this Intel-backed, Rust-based open-source VMM project that now routinely sees contributions from Microsoft, Arm, Rivos, Tencent, and other organizations...

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NetBSD 10.1 Released With Support For More Network Hardware, Better Ampere Altra Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 December, 2024

Building off the release of NetBSD 10.0 that arrived for Easter this year and incorporated a half-decade of work, NetBSD 10.1 is out right before Christmas as the first update to this BSD operating system series...

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AMD Preps Many Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.14, DRM Panic Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 December, 2024

AMD today sent out a first batch of "new stuff" feature patches to DRM-Next of new code for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of material for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

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MemryX MX3 M.2 Module Delivers Nice AI Performance With A Great Software Experience

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 December, 2024

While there are a growing number of startups offering AI accelerators, many of them are more or less vaporware and the other big challenge even among those actually shipping products is their software stacks are very premature or an outright heaping mess. Surprisingly there's a company known as MemryX that was started out of the University of Michigan AI research that is both shipping actual hardware -- and at a decent price point -- and where the software stack is a pleasant experience that works on both Windows and Linux. Here are my initial experiences in testing out the MemryX M.2 module that features four of their in-house MX3 AI accelerator chips.

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UEFI 2.11 Released With PI 1.9 Bringing LoongArch & RNG Additions

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 December, 2024

On Tuesday the UEFI Forum released the UEFI 2.11 specification alongside the Platform Initialization (PI) 1.9 specification...

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EROFS Switches To Buffered I/O For File-Backed Mounts To Speed-Up Container Start Times

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 December, 2024

Back for the Linux 6.12 kernel EROFS introduced support for file-backed mounts to help with container and sandboxing use-cases. As part of the EROFS "fixes" merged yesterday to the Linux 6.13 kernel, file-backed mounts are now using buffered I/O by default to speed-up container start times...