A Very Big Performance Optimization For Loop Block Devices Heading To Linux 6.19 A set of patches implementing async I/O IOCB_NOWAIT support for the loop block device is heading to the Linux 6.19 kernel with some performance improvements that will make loop block device users "wow"...

A Very Big Performance Optimization For Loop Block Devices Heading To Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

A set of patches implementing async I/O IOCB_NOWAIT support for the loop block device is heading to the Linux 6.19 kernel with some performance imp...

Memtest86+ 8.0 Released With Support For Latest Intel & AMD CPUs Since the 2022 release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used RAM testing utility, this open-source software has continued advancing nicely after a decade hiatus. Released on Sunday night was memtest86+ 8.0 as the latest iteration of this popular RAM tester for enthusiasts...

Memtest86+ 8.0 Released With Support For Latest Intel & AMD CPUs - Phoronix

Since the 2022 release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used RAM testing utility, this open-source software has continued advancing nice...

Wayland Protocols 1.46 Released With New Experimental Additions Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management protocol for HDR...

Wayland Protocols 1.46 Released With New Experimental Additions - Phoronix

Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management p...

NVIDIA Preps 1.6Tb/s Networking For Linux 6.19 NVIDIA has a number of Linux kernel patches on the way to the Linux 6.19 kernel in preparing for 1.6 Tb/s networking on NVIDIA-Mellanox hardware...

NVIDIA Preps 1.6Tb/s Networking For Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

NVIDIA has a number of Linux kernel patches on the way to the Linux 6.19 kernel in preparing for 1.6 Tb/s networking on NVIDIA-Mellanox hardware.

Glibc Math Code Sees 4x Improvement On AMD Zen By Changing FMA Implementation Merged this week to the GNU C Library "glibc" code is dropping the ldbl-96 FMA implementation from this library as in doing so they found a 4x improvement to throughput and latency on AMD Zen 3 hardware...

Glibc Math Code Sees 4x Improvement On AMD Zen By Changing FMA Implementation - Phoronix

Merged this week to the GNU C Library 'glibc' code is dropping the ldbl-96 FMA implementation from this library as in doing so they found...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Provide A Much Better Experience For High Refresh Rate Displays More features continue piling on for the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop, including an important performance fix this week for those running displays with a higher than 60Hz refresh rate...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Provide A Much Better Experience For High Refresh Rate Displays - Phoronix

More features continue piling on for the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop, including an important performance fix this week for those running displays with a...

Nautilus File Manager In GNOME 50 Will Load Thumbnails Much Faster Just last week GNOME's Nautilus file manager "GNOME Files" made headlines for finally supporting Ctrl+INsert and Shift+Insert while this week there is more activity worth pointing out. Nautilus in GNOME 50 will be loading thumbnail images much faster than in prior versions...

Nautilus File Manager In GNOME 50 Will Load Thumbnails Much Faster - Phoronix

Just last week GNOME's Nautilus file manager 'GNOME Files' made headlines for finally supporting Ctrl+INsert and Shift+Insert while ...

NVIDIA 580.94.11 Linux Driver Brings HDR Metadata Support NVIDIA today issued the 580.94.11 driver release as their newest Vulkan beta driver for Linux customers. Most notable with this beta driver update is adding VK_EXT_hdr_metadata support...

NVIDIA 580.94.11 Linux Driver Brings HDR Metadata Support - Phoronix

NVIDIA today issued the 580.94.11 driver release as their newest Vulkan beta driver for Linux customers

Servo Announces Sponsorship Tiers To Get More Organizations Backing This Browser Engine The Servo open-source web browser engine has been making good progress in recent times. Long outside the confines of Mozilla and working as a Linux Foundation Europe project, Servo has been advancing thanks to Igalia and other open-source developers while getting by on around ~$5.7k USD per month thanks mostly to donations from individuals. Servo has now…

Servo Announces Sponsorship Tiers To Get More Organizations Backing This Browser Engine - Phoronix

The Servo open-source web browser engine has been making good progress in recent times

VKD3D 1.18 Released With Numerous Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan VKD3D 1.18 is now available for this Direct3D 12 implementation that is part of the upstream Wine project. The VKD3D 1.18 release also comes just ahead of next month's feature freeze for the upcoming Wine 11.0 stable release...

VKD3D 1.18 Released With Numerous Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan - Phoronix

VKD3D 1.18 is now available for this Direct3D 12 implementation that is part of the upstream Wine project