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      AMD INVLPGB Merged For Linux 6.15 To Provide Another Performance Advantage

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

    The work carried out by a Meta engineer to make use of AMD's INVLPGB instruction within the Linux kernel for broadcast TLB flush handling has been merged for the in-development Linux 6.15! AMD INVLPGB has the possibility of helping with the performance in some areas and is found supported by recent generations of Zen CPU cores...
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      Flowblade 2.20 Open-Source Video Editor Leveraging SDL2, Other Improvements

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

    Flowblade 2.20 is out this morning as the newest feature update to this open-source, non-linear video editing system for Linux...
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      GNU Linux-libre 6.14-gnu Deals With New Firmware Blobs From AMDXDNA & Other Drivers

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

    Building off yesterday's Linux 6.14 release, the GNU Linux-libre 6.14-gnu downstream is now available for this flavor of the Linux kernel that strips out support for hardware/drivers depending upon non-open-source firmware/microcode as well as the ability to load proprietary kernel modules and other tainted code...
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      GRUB Bootloader Received 73 Patches To Fix A Variety Of Recent Security Issues

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

    The GRUB bootloader saw a set of 73 patches last month for addressing a variety of security flaws that were discovered...
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      GIMP 3.0.2 Released To Fix Early Bugs From GIMP 3.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March, 2025

    GIMP 3.0 was 7+ years in development before releasing as stable last week for this much anticipated, GTK3-ported image manipulation program update. Thankfully we're not seeing any lengthy periods of time for new bug-fix releases with today already marking the release of GIMP 3.0.2...
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      Bcachefs Aims For "Soft Frozen" On-Disk Format With Linux 6.15 Along With New Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March, 2025

    Last month Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet talked of Bcachefs getting to the point of freezing its on-disk format with future on-disk format updates slated to be optional. With today's Bcachefs pull request for Linux 6.15, it's now being treated as "soft frozen" and also landing other new features for this copy-on-write file-system. Among the new features is case insensitive file/folder support contributed by Valve...
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      Btrfs Adding Fast/Realtime Zstd Compression & Other Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March, 2025

    David Sterba of SUSE sent in all of the Btrfs file-system updates today for the now-open Linux 6.15 kernel merge window. There are some new performance optimizations, new and faster Zstd compression level options, and other changes slated to be included for this CoW file-system in Linux 6.15...
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      New FWCTL Subsystem Submitted For Linux 6.15

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March, 2025

    Assuming no objections from Linus Torvalds, the now open Linux 6.15 merge window could introduce a brand new subsystem: fwctl...
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      AMD Lands LLVM Flang Fortran Runtime Support For Compiling Directly On The GPU

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March, 2025

    An AMD engineer has landed experimental support within the LLVM codebase for building Flang-RT on GPUs. Flang-RT being the run-time for LLVM's modern Fortran "Flang" compiler and in turn this effort working to allow more Fortran code to easily run on GPUs with capable LLVM back-ends...
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