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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.



AMD Preps Linux Support For User CPUID Faulting

([AMD] 9 June 03:11 PM EDT AMD CPUID Faulting)

While Intel has supported CPUID Faulting on processors going back to Ivy Bridge and supported this feature in the Linux kernel since early 2017, only now the AMD support is being wired up and making use of the existing Intel code paths.



AMD EPYC 4345P 8-Core CPU Performance

([Processors] 9 June 11:00 AM EDT 10 Comments)

Last month with the launch of the AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado" series for entry-level Zen 5 servers we ran benchmarks of the AMD EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX processors as the top-tier 16-core CPUs. They delivered an excellent combination of performance, power efficiency, and most of all value for those looking to assemble an AM5-based budget-oriented server in 2025 and beyond. Those processors destroyed the Intel Xeon 6300 series competition's flagship, the Xeon 6369P that is simply 8 cores / 16 threads in 2025... Being curious about the core-for-core performance between the AMD EPYC 4005 series and Intel Xeon 6300 series, I got my hands on an AMD EPYC 4345P as the Grado 8-core processor to see how it performs against that Xeon E-2400 series replacement as well as how the performance compares to the prior generation 8-core EPYC 4344P.



Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX

([Software] 9 June 08:30 AM EDT 6 Comments)

Now that the Linux 6.16 kernel merge window closed this weekend, here is a convenient recap of all the interesting features coming in this next kernel release due out as stable around the end of July.



Open-Source Linux Driver Preps For Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 GPU Support

([Hardware] 9 June 06:37 AM EDT Adreno X1-45 GPU)

When it comes to the Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops on Linux it's been primarily focused on the Snapdragon X Elite support with the X Plus SoC support not being as well off yet. But recently there has been more patches surfacing around the Snapdragon X Plus support, including the Adreno X1-45 GPU used by that lower-tier SoC.



Mold 2.40.1 Delivers More Performance - Including A New Algorithm Generated By ChatGPT

([Programming] 9 June 06:46 AM EDT Mold 2.40.1)

While a point release, Mold 2.40.1 is another notable step forward for this high-speed linker alternative to GNU LD/Gold and LLVM LLD. Mold 2.40.1 brings yet more performance improvements.



NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.14 Improves Compatibility & Fixes Various Issues

([NVIDIA] 9 June 06:00 AM EDT NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver)

The open-source, unofficial VA-API driver implementation for NVIDIA GPUs is out with a new release. The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver project continues to build VA-API support atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface to allow the NVIDIA proprietary driver stack to work with VA-API-only applications like the Mozilla Firefox web browser on Linux.



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