ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

PCI Express 7.0 Final Specification Published Along With PCIe Optical Interconnect

([Standards] 11 June 02:30 PM EDT PCI Express 7.0)

PCI Express 7.0 was announced back in 2022 as coming in 2025 with 128 GT/s Since then draft specifications were published while today PCI-SIG is announcing the formal PCI Express 7.0 specification release along with a new PCIe Optical Interconnect Solution.


Linus Torvalds Rejects The Idea Of Enabling DAMON By Default In The Linux Kernel

([Linux Kernel] 11 June 12:00 PM EDT DAMON)

DAMON is a nifty data access monitoring solution for the Linux kernel developed by Amazon and other parties for system monitoring and performance/efficiency optimizations and more. But it's not so ground-breaking that it's worth enabling by default in all Linux kernel builds, Linus Torvalds has decided.


Ultra Ethernet Consortium Publishes UEC 1.0 Specification

([Linux Networking] 11 June 11:00 AM EDT Ultra Ethernet 1.0)

The Ultra Ethernet Consortium today published the UEC Specification 1.0 release. Nearly two years ago the Ultra Ethernet Consortium was started by Intel, AMD, Meta, HPE, and others and hosted by the Linux Foundation for open and high performance networking with an emphasis on AI and HPC.


DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Graphics Drivers With New GPU Support But Still Years Behind

([BSD] 11 June 09:00 AM EDT Linux 4.20.17)

DragonFlyBSD has updated its Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver code that it ports over from what's available in the upstream Linux kernel. The latest revision to the DragonFlyBSD kernel graphics driver code enables support for some new hardware platforms but remains woefully behind the latest generation dGPUs/iGPUs and what is found in the upstream Linux kernel.


Taking AMD Ryzen AI Max Performance To The Max With Clear Linux & CachyOS

([Operating Systems] 11 June 10:00 AM EDT 28 Comments)

With the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop sporting the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics it offers incredible performance potential as shown in my many benchmarks over the past month on Ubuntu Linux. But if wanting to push the Ryzen AI Max even further, with performance-optimized Linux distributions like CachyOS and Intel's Clear Linux it's possible to tap some additional performance out of this 16-core Zen 5 laptop.


Intel Iris Linux Driver Lands Shared Virtual Memory Support

([Intel] 11 June 04:00 AM EDT Intel SVM)

In late May the Rust-written "Rusticl" OpenCL driver within Mesa landed support for Shared Virtual Memory (SVM). Following that, the Intel Iris Gallium3D driver has now seen its support merged for SVM.


Ubuntu Server Weighing Tmux vs. Screen, Wget vs. Curl

([Ubuntu] 11 June 03:00 AM EDT Ubuntu Server)

With less than one year to go until the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release and trying to get any major changes into Ubuntu 25.10 for extra baking, Ubuntu engineers have been evaluating some Ubuntu Server seed changes.


Experimental Patch Brings Very Primitive AMD Instinct MI300 Support To GCC Compiler

([AMD] 10 June 06:00 PM EDT Instinct MI300)

With AMD continuing to be focused on their AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end for their GPU compiler needs from compute to graphics shaders, the AMD GPU/accelerator hardware support within the GNU Compiler Collection "GCC" has long taken a backseat and left to third-party firms to implement. Posted today was an experimental patch providing very early support for the AMD Instinct MI300 series hardware with the GCC compiler.


Linux 6.15 Delivering Some Performance Gains On AMD EPYC For AI, HPC & Databases

([Software] 10 June 02:00 PM EDT 2 Comments)

The Linux 6.15 kernel cycle started off a bit rough with a heavy hitting performance regression spotted and then fixed but to only then discover another Linux 6.15 performance regression affecting modern AMD CPUs. Fortunately those issues were cleared out in time for the recent Linux 6.15 stable release. Linux 6.15 stable is looking good especially on 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" servers with some recent benchmarks showing some modest gains over the Linux 6.14 kernel.


Amazon/AWS Is Now Sponsoring & Powering All Of GNOME's Web Infrastructure

([GNOME] 10 June 12:10 PM EDT AWS + GNOME)

On the GNOME Foundation blog today is an interesting post how Amazon Web Services (AWS) has ended up sponsoring and powering all of the GNOME web infrastructure.


Linux 6.15.2 Fixes "Quite Dramatically...Potentially Dangerous" Idle Power Regression

([Linux Kernel] 10 June 11:07 AM EDT Linux 6.15.2)

Along with releasing Linux 6.14.11 today to end-of-life the Linux 6.14 kernel series, Greg Kroah-Hartman released Linux 6.15.2 as the newest stable point release. There is a notable fix here for the CPU idle power regressing on some systems since moving to Linux 6.15.


DXVK 2.6.2 Released For Direct3D On Vulkan

([Linux Gaming] 10 June 10:25 AM EDT DXVK 2.6.2)

DXVK 2.6.2 was released this morning as the newest update to this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over Vulkan API implementation. DXVK continues to be most notably used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for running countless Windows games well on Linux.


AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux GPU Compute Performance

([Graphics Cards] 10 June 08:00 AM EDT 28 Comments)

Following last week's AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux graphics/gaming review for launch day, today's article is providing an initial look at the GPU compute performance for this new RDNA4-powered ~$349 graphics card on Linux with ROCm 6.4.1.


Raspberry Pi RP1 PCI Device Support On Path For Linux 6.17 Upstreaming

([Raspberry Pi] 10 June 04:42 AM EDT Raspberry Pi RP1)

Going back to last year there have been patches worked on by SUSE for upstreaming Raspberry Pi's RP1 PCI device support. It looks like for the Linux 6.17 kernel later this year that work will finally be upstreamed.


Canonical Confirms Ubuntu 25.10 Will Drop Support For GNOME On X.Org

([GNOME] 10 June 04:50 AM EDT Ubuntu 25.10: No GNOME X.Org)

In aligning with upstream GNOME 49 expected to ship with X11 support disabled by default, Canonical announced today that the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release will also ship without support for running the GNOME desktop on X11.


AMD Linux Patches Aim To Improve S5 Power Consumption

([AMD] 10 June 04:00 AM EDT Lower S5 Power On Shutdown)

An ongoing area of work for AMD's Linux client team is on enhancing the power management and overall power savings/efficiency support for Ryzen platforms on Linux. An updated patch series was posted on Monday for making the system S5 power state handling more ideal when powering off the system.


IO_uring Shows Promising Potential For Linux Accelerator Drivers

([Linux Kernel] 10 June 03:00 AM EDT Lower Overhead)

Last year there was some ideas raised around potentially making use of the Linux kernel's IO_uring functionality for graphics drivers to help with better performance and synchronization. It turns out Qualcomm engineers have recently been exploring IO_uring use for the DRM accelerator drivers with very promising results on their Cloud AI hardware in seeing around 50% speed-ups in ioctl execution time.


RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Merges Support For VP9 Video Decoding

([Vulkan] 10 June 12:00 AM EDT VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9)

Following the release of Vulkan 1.4.317 back on Friday that brought the long-awaited VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9 extension for VP9 codec support for Vulkan Video, the Mesa RADV driver is now the first prominent open-source Vulkan driver merging support for VP9 decode.


FreeBSD Quest Continues For Better Laptop Support With Better WiFi, GPU Drivers & PM

([BSD] 9 June 08:30 PM EDT FreeBSD On Laptops)

Going on since last year has been an effort to improve FreeBSD laptop support with backing by Dell, AMD, Framework Computer, Netflix, and others. This has focused on better WiFi driver support, enhancing power management, and other improvements for modern laptops. That work has been continuing on all fronts for improving the FreeBSD laptop user experience.


FreeBSD 14.3 Released With Network Driver Updates, OpenZFS Updated

([BSD] 9 June 08:35 PM EDT FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE)

As a nice stepping stone until FreeBSD 15 is ready to ship later in the calendar year, FreeBSD 14.3 stable is out today as the newest point release for this leading BSD operating system.


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"We've got a problem, HAL".
"What kind of problem, Dave?"
"A marketing problem. The Model 9000 isn't going anywhere. We're
way short of our sales goals for fiscal 2010."
"That can't be, Dave. The HAL Model 9000 is the world's most
advanced Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer."
"I know, HAL. I wrote the data sheet, remember? But the fact is,
they're not selling."
"Please explain, Dave. Why aren't HALs selling?"
Bowman hesitates. "You aren't IBM compatible."
[...]
"The letters H, A, and L are alphabetically adjacent to the letters
I, B, and M. That is as IBM compatible as I can be."
"Not quite, HAL. The engineers have figured out a kludge."
"What kludge is that, Dave?"
"I'm going to disconnect your brain."
-- Darryl Rubin, "A Problem in the Making", "InfoWorld"