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      Linux 6.15 Goes Very Heavy On Intel & AMD x86_64 CPU Changes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 March

    Merged today for the recently-opened Linux 6.15 merge window were all of the "x86/core" changes that are particularly heavy on new feature work for both Intel and AMD x86/x86_64 processors. This is easily quite one of the most significant Intel/AMD CPU set of updates in a given kernel cycle in quite some time...
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      XZ 5.8 Debuts As First Major Feature Release Since The Backdoor Disaster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March, 2025

    XZ 5.8 is out today as the first notable feature release since last year's malicious backdoor in XZ 5.6 inserted by a then-co-maintainer of the project. XZ 5.6.2 was out last May while XZ 5.8.0 is now stable today for bringing new features to this lossless data compressor project...
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      MPV 0.40 Media Player Released With Wayland HDR Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March, 2025

    MPV 0.40 was just released as the newest version of this open-source media player derived from MPlayer/MPlayer2. With the MPV 0.40 release there is support for HDR videos on Wayland using the new color management protocol along with a variety of other new features...
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      Fwupd 2.0.7 Released With New Plug-Ins & Additional Hardware Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March, 2025

    Fwupd 2.0.7 brings the newest plug-ins and expanded hardware support for being able to update a variety of system and device/peripheral firmware under Linux...
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      NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux Gaming/Graphics Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March, 2025

    Earlier this month for launch-day there were NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU compute benchmarks. The graphics/gaming benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 5070 on Linux were held up by waiting for a new R570 Linux driver release with proper support for this new Blackwell graphics card. Last week that new Linux driver arrived in the form of the NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux build. That new NVIDIA Linux driver is working out great with the GeForce RTX 5070 Founder's Edition and in this article are some initial Linux gaming/graphics performance benchmarks for that new graphics card competing with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series.
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      www.phoronix.com /review/nvidia-rtx5070-linux-gaming

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      Latest Batch Of Rust Compiler Updates For GCC 15.1 Lands Support For... For Loops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March, 2025

    Over the past week a lot of new Rust "gccrs" code was merged into the GCC 15 compiler code-base as a big step forward for this open-source Rust front-end. Another big batch of patches have been merged with for-loops now working among other functionality...
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      Intel Engineer Posts Cache-Aware Load Balancing For Linux - May Be Very Useful For AMD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March, 2025

    An exciting new Linux kernel patch series was posted today for testing... Introducing support for cache-aware load-balancing. The patch comes from a veteran Intel Linux engineer but this cache aware load balancing may also prove very applicable for AMD Linux users for EPYC and Ryzen processors...
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      F2FS Sees Nice Set Of Enhancements For Linux 6.15

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March, 2025

    In addition to the Btrfs updates with real-time Zstd compression support and Bcachefs stabilizing its on-disk format, the Flash Friendly File-System updates have also been submitted already for the newly-opened Linux 6.15 merge window. There are a few exciting improvements for F2FS with this next Linux kernel version...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/F2FS-Linux-6.15

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      GCC & LLVM Clang Merge Support For The NVIDIA Olympus Cores With The Vera CPU

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March, 2025

    The GCC and LLVM Clang open-source compilers have landed support for the NVIDIA Olympus cores for NVIDIA's Vera CPU that is part of their next-gen Rubin microarchitecture succeeding Blackwell...
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