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GCC 16 Increasing Its Default LTO Partition Count Due To Today's High Core Count CPUs

4. Září 2025 - 19:44
GCC's --param lto-partitions= compiler flag is used for controlling the number of partitions used during Link Time Optimization (LTO). It had defaulted to 128 for a number of years but given today's rising core counts especially for servers and HEDT/workstation processors, that default partition count is being quadrupled...

Intel Xe Graphics Driver Preps More SR-IOV Code For Linux 6.18

4. Září 2025 - 18:35
In addition to the SR-IOV work for the Intel Xe driver that landed in Linux 6.17 with a focus on Battlemage, additional SR-IOV work is coming for the Linux 6.18 cycle. Plus a variety of other Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes too...

Linux 6.17 With EXT4 Showing Some Nice Performance Improvements

4. Září 2025 - 15:00
With the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some block allocation scalability improvements for EXT4 on top of other file-system enhancements with this new kernel and other new features. Linux 6.17 performance has been looking good and when drilling down to the EXT4 file-system performance, it's looking extremely good. Here are some benchmarks of EXT4 on Linux 6.17 compared to the 6.15 and 6.16 stable kernels.

HIP-RT Update For Blender 5.0 To Deliver Improved Ray-Tracing On RDNA4 GPUs

4. Září 2025 - 14:38
AMD engineers have submitted a HIP-RT update for Blender developers ahead of the big Blender 5.0 release to enhance the RDNA4 ray-tracing performance...

NVIDIA Posts Initial Linux Patches For Extended GPU Memory "EGM" Virtualization

4. Září 2025 - 14:10
NVIDIA engineer Ankit Agrawal today posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series working on Linux virtualization support for Extended GPU Memory (EGM)...

Ubuntu 25.10 Proceeding With Its Rust Coreutils Transition

4. Září 2025 - 13:11
Following sudo-rs becoming the default sudo implementation in Ubuntu 25.10 as of a few days ago, Canonical is also proceeding with its transition of using the Rust version of Coreutils for this next Ubuntu Linux release...

Miracle-WM 0.7 Brings Mouse/Keyboard Configuration, Enhances Sway IPC Compatibility

4. Září 2025 - 11:44
Miracle-WM is the Wayland compositor built atop Canonical's Mir project with a focus on tiling and inspired by Sway/i3. Miracle-WM 0.7 is now available for advancing this Mir-powered Wayland experience with additional functionality now in place...

Fedora 44 Change Proposal Aims To Ensure A Nice Wine/Proton + NTSYNC Experience

4. Září 2025 - 11:34
A change proposal filed for next year's Fedora 44 release wants to aim for a nice experience when running Wine or the Proton variants supporting the Linux kernel's NTSYNC driver for better emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives...

Microsoft Building Out Its "OS Guard" Functionality For Azure Linux

4. Září 2025 - 11:21
A new feature Microsoft has been working on for its Azure Linux operating system is OS Guard as a container-host platform that enforces immutability, code integrity, mandatory access control, and other features. Microsoft quietly revealed more about OS Guard last month and yesterday's release of Azure Linux 3.0.20250822 builds out more of the OS Guard functionality...

Linux Mint 22.2 Officially Released With Fingwit, UI Tweaks

4. Září 2025 - 11:08
Linux Mint 22.2 is officially out today as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package base...

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2025.3 With More GenAI Enhancements & Arc Pro B-Series Support

4. Září 2025 - 10:55
On the same day as beginning to ship the Intel Arc Pro B50 ~$349 USD workstation graphics card, Intel also shipped OpenVINO 2025.3 as the newest feature release for this open-source AI toolkit...