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Mesa 25.1-rc2 Released With NVK Vulkan 1.4 Conformance For Older NVIDIA GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Wednesday, 23 April - 18:22

Mesa 25.1-rc2 is now available for testing as the newest weekly test version of this collection of OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Mesa 25.1 continues working its way toward a stable release in May...

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Orange Pi RV2 Benchmarks: The Most Performant RISC-V Board For Less Than $100 With 8 Cores + 8GB RAM

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Wednesday, 23 April - 14:30

Earlier this month Canonical announced Ubuntu Linux support for the Orange Pi RV2 as a low-cost RISC-V developer board. The Orange Pi RV2 with eight RISC-V cores and 8GB of RAM costs just around $64 USD. The price point and specs were interesting that I ordered one and have been running performance benchmarks on it since for seeing how capable this is as finally an interesting, low-cost and readily available RISC-V board.

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AMD Posts Open-Source Linux Patches For Pensando RDMA Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Wednesday, 23 April - 12:20

The newest open-source Linux driver being worked on by AMD engineers is a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) solution for their Pensando networking hardware...

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Ubuntu 25.10 Moving Ahead With Plans For Migrating To Rust Coreutils

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Wednesday, 23 April - 10:31

Back in March some ideas were talked about by Canonical engineers for Ubuntu Linux to move to Rust Coreutils and other Rust-written system components. Some of this is likely to materialize for the Ubuntu 25.10 release due out in October to allow for sufficient testing ahead of the all important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release next year. Today the more solidified plans have been laid out for moving to the Rust Coreutils as a replacement to GNU Coreutils with Ubuntu 25.10...

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Fedora 43 Change Proposal Filed For Removing GNOME X11 Packages: Wayland-Only GNOME

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Wednesday, 23 April - 10:15

Following a lot of work in this direction toward the end goal of removing GNOME X11 support, this milestone may finally be acheived for the Fedora 43 cycle due out by the end of the year. A change proposal has been filed for removing the GNOME X11 packages in the repository and in turn making the GNOME desktop Wayland-only on Fedora Linux...

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VMware Updates Linux Patches For Running VMware Workstation Atop KVM

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Wednesday, 23 April - 10:05

One of the biggest surprises of last year was finding out that VMware has been working on shifting VMware Workstation from proprietary code to building atop the upstream KVM code within the Linux kernel. Following the initial patches from last October, an updated patch series was sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list yesterday for working on this transition...

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Patches Hoping For The Upstream Kernel Finally Provide Google Pixel 4a Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Wednesday, 23 April - 09:58

The Google Pixel 4a smartphones launched in mid-2020 and now in mid-2025 it looks like we might finally be close to seeing mainline kernel support for the Pixel 4a devices and other hardware making use of Qualcomm Snapdragon 730/730G/732G SoCs...

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QEMU 10.0 Released With True Multi-Queue Support, New Apple Graphics Devices

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Wednesday, 23 April - 00:35

QEMU 10.0 was released today as the newest version of this emulator code that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

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Linux 6.15 Git Tanked Nginx HTTPS Web Server Performance - Here's The Bisect

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Tuesday, 22 April - 21:09

With the Linux 6.15 kernel settling down nicely, I've been testing out the current Linux Git state on more systems in looking for any performance changes. Unfortunately this week I ran into a large performance regression affecting the Nginx HTTP(S) web server. Here's a look at that problem currently affecting Linux Git.

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