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BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Gets ARM64 Port Booting

([Operating Systems] 3 Minutes Ago Haiku OS + ARM64)

Over the course of March there was much progress made on the ARM64 port of Haiku OS, the open-source operating system serving as the spiritual successor to BeOS.



FFmpeg Integrates Video Encoder For Advanced Professional Video (APV)

([Multimedia] 5 Minutes Ago APV Encoder)

One week ago FFmpeg merged decode support for Samsung's Advanced Professional Video "APV" codec. APV is designed for professional-grade video recording purposes and is a royalty-free video codec geared for prosumers. Now arriving within FFmpeg Git is APV video encode support.



Hugging Face Contributes Safetensors To PyTorch Foundation To Secure AI Model Execution

([AI] 1 Minute Ago Safetensors)

Announced today from the PyTorch Conference EU in Paris is word that Hugging Face has contributed their Safetensors project to the PyTorch Foundation, which is an umbrella organization under the Linux Foundation for hosting AI initiatives. Safetensors aims to help mitigate arbitrary code execution risks and more.



Patches For Linux 7.1 May Have Negative Impact On 32-bit Systems

([Linux Kernel] 99 Minutes Ago 4 Byte Hit)

Code now merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel may provide some negative performance implications for those still running modern Linux kernels on 32-bit hardware. A fundamental change can present cache line alignment and slab sizing implications for 32-bit Linux OS users but will provide for cleaner code with modern 64-bit computing.



Linus Torvalds Rejects Performance Fix "Hack" & Kconfig "Terrible Things" For Linux 7.1

([Linux Kernel] 3 Hours Ago Rejected By Linus)

While a lot of interesting new features and changes have been merged already for the Linux 7.1 merge window, two pull requests stand out so far for being rejected by Linus Torvalds and complete with his to-the-point commentary.



Ubuntu 26.04 Delivers Great Performance Improvements For AMD Strix Point, Especially For RDNA 3.5 Graphics

([Operating Systems] 5 Hours Ago 1 Comment)

As part of my ongoing testing around the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 release I have been running a lot of benchmarks. After recently showing some nice performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" with Ubuntu 26.04, several Phoronix readers inquired about any performance uplift from the more modest but still powerful Strix Point laptops like the popular Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 SKU. Here are benchmarks showing the performance of Ubuntu 26.04 in its near final state compared to Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS with its HWE stack on an ASUS Zenbook S16.



Nginx 1.30 Released With Multipath TCP, ECH & More

([Free Software] 7 Hours Ago Nginx 1.30)

Nginx 1.30 was just released as the newest stable version of this popular web server. Nginx 1.30 incorporates all of the changes from the Nginx 1.29.x mainline branch to provide a lot of new functionality like Multipath TCP (MPTCP).



GNOME Mutter 50.1 Fixes Performance Regression For Some NVIDIA Driver Versions

([GNOME] 7 Hours Ago Mutter 50.1)

GNOME Shell 50.1 and Mutter 50.1 were released today as the first point releases in the GNOME 50 series.



X.Org Server 21.1.22 Released Due To Five New Security Vulnerabilities

([X.Org] 8 Hours Ago X.Org Server 21.1.22)

X.Org Server 21.1.22 is out today and driven by five new security vulnerabilities being disclosed for the aging codebase. In turn these vulnerabilities also impact XWayland too and thus necessitating the XWayland 24.1.10 release.



Sunshine Game Streaming Introduces Vulkan Video Encode Support

([Linux Gaming] 8 Hours Ago Sunshine v2026.413.143228)

Sunshine v2026.413.143228 released this week as a new feature release for this self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight, an open-source game streaming client that is an implementation of the NVIDIA GameStream protocol. Notable with this Sunshine release is Vulkan Video encode support as an alternative to using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for game streaming.



OpenSSL 4.0 Released With Encrypted Client Hello, RFC 8998 Support

([Free Software] 9 Hours Ago OpenSSL 4.0)

OpenSSL 4.0 was just released as a big update for this widely-used SSL/TLS and crypto library.



Linux 7.1 Revamps T10 PI Data Integrity Handling For Better Read Performance

([Linux Storage] 9 Hours Ago T10 PI)

Merged yesterday for the Linux 7.1 kernel is overhauling the T10 PI code for generating and verifying data integrity information. In turn the new code is cleaner while also allowing for better read storage performance.



Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play

([Radeon] 10 Hours Ago VK_EXT_descriptor_heap)

As a big helper for Valve's Steam Play with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its initial support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap Vulkan extension.



KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years

([KDE] 12 Hours Ago Per-Screen Virtual Desktops)

A request made a KDE user all the way back in June 2005 on KDE 3.3.2 is finally resolved. After being sought after for 21 years, the latest KWin code now has support for per-screen virtual desktops.



AMD Ready With CPPC Performance Priority & Dynamic/Raw EPP In Linux 7.1

([Linux Kernel] 12 Hours Ago Linux 7.1 Power Management)

All of the power management subsystem feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel.



BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Gets ARM64 Port Booting

([Operating Systems] 12 Hours Ago Haiku OS + ARM64)

Over the course of March there was much progress made on the ARM64 port of Haiku OS, the open-source operating system serving as the spiritual successor to BeOS.



Linux 7.1 Lands ARM64 NEON-Accelerated CRC64-NVMe For ~6x Improvement

([Arm] 12 Hours Ago Faster ARM64 CRC64-NVMe)

Merged yesterday were all the CRC code updates for the Linux 7.1 kernel. Most notable with that pull is an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation that can deliver multiple times faster performance.



jemalloc 5.3.1 Released With Many Improvements After Nearly Four Year Hiatus

([Programming] 13 April 08:22 PM EDT jemalloc 5.3.1)

Jemalloc 5.3.1 was released today with next month marking four years since the prior release, jemalloc 5.3.0. While the version bump may not seem like much, jemalloc 5.3.1 comes with many performance improvements, new features, and other enhancements.



GreenBoost Memory Orchestrator For NVIDIA GPUs Introduces GreenBoost-Proton For Gaming

([NVIDIA] 13 April 03:30 PM EDT GreenBoost)

Last month we showcased GreenBoost as an open-source means of augmenting NVIDIA GPU vRAM with system RAM and NVMe storage. This memory tiering solution for NVIDIA GPUs was developed by an open-source developer with a focus on CUDA and allowing larger LLMs to be handled on graphics cards with smaller vRAM capacities. There was a setback to the project due to NVIDIA legal but now the project is going in new form and also has introduced GreenBoost-Proton for helping Linux gaming on NVIDIA hardware.



Coreboot Comes To AMD Ryzen Powered Star Labs StarBook MK VI After 3+ Year Wait

([Coreboot] 13 April 03:05 PM EDT StarBook MK VI)

For those that had purchased a StarBook MK VI laptop 3+ years ago over the advertised support for Coreboot, Star Labs has now delivered with a Coreboot build finally available and working for this AMD Ryzen 5000 series powered laptop.



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