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Intel i915 vs. Xe Graphics Driver Benchmarks For Meteor Lake: Extra Performance In 2025

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 September

Last month I provided a fresh look at the Intel Arc A-Series graphics between the i915 and Xe kernel graphics drivers for Linux systems. The aging i915 driver is the default for the Alchemist GPUs but there is "experimental" support with the modern Xe kernel graphics driver. There were some performance advantages for the Arc A-Series if switching over to that newer driver option. Similarly, there are advantages with Meteor Lake too when moving from the i915 to Xe Linux drivers. Here are benchmarks to quantify that advantage.

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Intel Linux Graphics Driver Seeing 2~5% Faster Shader Compilation Times, Up To ~20%

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 September

A few days ago I wrote about Intel fixing some Panther Lake Xe3 graphics performance issues ahead of launch. The downside of those performance optimizations for Panther Lake was that they led to longer shader compilation times. The good news though is that some separate improvements were merged now for Mesa 25.3 to help enhance the Intel graphics shader compilation performance...

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Linux Mint 22.3 Planned To Bring More Wayland Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 September

While Linux Mint 22.2 was just released one week ago, Linux Mint developers are planning for a Linux Mint 22.3 update before year's end...

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Fish Shell 4.0.6 Released With Many Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 September

Fish 4.0.6 is out as the newest update to this shell that with Fish 4.0 was rewritten in Rust from C++...

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Samba 4.23 Released With SMB3 Over QUIC, SMB3 Unix Extensions By Default

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 September

Samba 4.23 is out today as the newest version of this SMB protocol re-implementation for file and print services interoperability with the Microsoft Windows world...

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Linux 6.17 Fix Lands To Address Regression With "Serious Breakage" In Hibernation

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 September

This week's round of power management fixes for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel are on the more notable side with fixes for both AMD and Intel P-State drivers plus addressing a system hibernation issue that could lead to "serious breakage" and stems from a Linux 6.16 regression...

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Fwupd 2.0.16 Released With New Search Feature, Fixes For FreeBSD Firmware Updates

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 September

It was just two days ago that Fwupd 2.0.15 released with new hardware support and other improvements. That has already been replaced by Fwupd 2.0.16...

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Bcachefs Outlines Plans For Shipping As A DKMS Out-Of-Tree Kernel Module

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 September

With Linus Torvalds having recently marked Bcachefs as being "externally maintained" following ongoing disagreement over the generally accepted Linux kernel development practices, the plans were laid out today for shipping Bcachefs as an out-of-tree DKMS module...

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Fedora 43 Beta Being Released Next Week

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 September

Fedora 43 Beta is declared a "GO" and ready for release next Tuesday...

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