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Ptyxis Becomes Ubuntu's Recommended Replacement To GNOME Terminal

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 December, 2024

While the Ubuntu desktop has been offered the newer GNOME Console as an alternative to GNOME Terminal, there's been a recent fondness around Ptyxis and apparently is becoming the recommended replacement to GNOME Terminal for the Ubuntu camp...

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New Linux Patch Establishes "CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE" For -march=native Kernel Builds

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 December, 2024

Last week I wrote about Linux patches cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel builds for x86_64 CPUs. The new iteration of those patches were sent out today, including the addition of a patch adding the CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE Kconfig tunable for enabling "-march=native" kernel builds to cater your optimized kernel compilation for the CPU on which you are building the kernel...

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Perf Support For 2,048 CPU Cores Is Becoming Not Enough - Patches Bump Kernel Limit

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 December, 2024

Currently the Linux kernel's "perf" performance monitoring subsystem has a limit on 2,048 CPU cores for its CPU map that is set by the MAX_NR_CPUS value. But that's becoming not enough in today's high core count era that patches are looking to raise it to a 4,096 CPU core limit by default...

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Updated Dasharo Firmware Pulls In Raptor Lake Instability Fix, Other Enhancements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 December, 2024

For those wanting to run Coreboot or Coreboot-derived firmware on a modern desktop motherboard with good performance and features, the main contender currently is 3mdeb's Dasharo downstream that can be flashed on the MSI PRO Z790-P/Z790-P motherboards for using with Intel Core Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors. Firmware consulting firm 3mdeb today published a new Dasharo firmware update for the MSI PRO Z790-P WIFI motherboard...

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Optimizing Linux MD Bitmap Code Yields 89% Throughput Boost For Quad SSDs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 December, 2024

A promising patch for the Linux kernel is optimizing the locking contention and scattered address space for the MD bitmap code to improve both the storage throughput and latency...

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IBM Deprecating Linux Drivers For CXL Coherent Accelerators & CAPI Flash

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 December, 2024

IBM engineers announced they are deprecating the upstream CXL and CXLFLASH Linux kernel drivers with plans to then remove the drivers from the mainline kernel the following cycle. Before getting too worked up when seeing the "cxl: Deprecate driver" patch, this is about the Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) that predates the Compute Express Link...

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Servo Browser Engine Landed More Performance Optimizations In November

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 December, 2024

The Servo browser engine project is out with their latest monthly status update to outline improvements made to this Rust-based open-source engine...

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NTSYNC Linux Patches Revived To Help Boost Steam Play Gaming Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 December, 2024

Back in May for the Linux 6.10 kernel the initial bits of the NTSYNC driver was upstreamed for helping to emulate the Windows NT synchronization primitives so Windows games running under Wine/Proton (such as Valve's Steam Play) can enjoy a very nice performance boost. That NTSYNC code for Linux 6.10 wasn't yet in functioning shape and now a half-year later the newest NTSYNC patch series has been sent out for review...

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GNU Shepherd 1.0 Service Manager Released As "Solid Tool" Alternative To systemd

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 December, 2024

GNU Shepherd as a service manager for both system and user services that is used by Guix and relying on Guile Scheme has finally reached version 1.0. For those not pleased with systemd, GNU Shepherd can be used as an init system and now has finally crossed the version 1.0 milestone after 21 years of development...