Linux Will Be Able To Boot ~0.035 Seconds Faster With One Line Kernel Patch The Linux kernel itself can already boot quite fast but with a simple one-line patch another ~0.035 seconds will be able to be shaved off the boot time...

Linux Will Be Able To Boot ~0.035 Seconds Faster With One Line Kernel Patch - Phoronix

The Linux kernel itself can already boot quite fast but with a simple one-line patch another ~0.035 seconds will be able to be shaved off the boot ...

Red Hat's Tuned 2.24 Can Now Control AMD Core Performance Boost Red Hat's performance team has been working on the Tuned profile delivery software as an alternative to power-profiles-daemon on Linux systems. Fedora will be switching over to Tuned to replace power-profiles-daemon and the newest Tuned 2.24 release is now available...

Red Hat's Tuned 2.24 Can Now Control AMD Core Performance Boost - Phoronix

Red Hat's performance team has been working on the Tuned profile delivery software as an alternative to power-profiles-daemon on Linux systems

Valve's SteamOS 3.6.9 Beta Brings Many Fixes & Supports More Controllers Valve has just released a SteamOS 3.6.9 beta as the newest update to their Arch Linux derived operating system powering the Steam Deck and other gaming devices...

Valve's SteamOS 3.6.9 Beta Brings Many Fixes & Supports More Controllers - Phoronix

Valve has just released a SteamOS 3.6.9 beta as the newest update to their Arch Linux derived operating system powering the Steam Deck and other ga...

More HDR Preparations Merged In Time For GNOME 47 Following the recent Mutter 47 beta release that also marks the feature freze point for GNOME 47, there still are some High Dynamic Range (HDR) display preparations being merged ahead of this next stable desktop release due out in September...

More HDR Preparations Merged In Time For GNOME 47 - Phoronix

Following the recent Mutter 47 beta release that also marks the feature freze point for GNOME 47, there still are some High Dynamic Range (HDR) dis...

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X & Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance This could quite well be my simplest review in the past twenty years of Phoronix. The AMD Ryzen 9000 series starting with the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X launching tomorrow are some truly great desktop processors. The generational uplift is very compelling, even in single-threaded Linux workloads shooting ahead of Intel's 14th Gen Core competition, across nearly 400 benchma…

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X & Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance Review - Phoronix

This could quite well be my simplest review in the past twenty years of Phoronix.

Sway Compositor Lands Wayland Explicit Sync Support Yesterday the Sway i3-inspired Wayland compositor saw tearing control support merged while today another prominent Wayland protocol has been merged: linux-drm-syncobj-v1 for explicit sync support...

Sway Compositor Lands Wayland Explicit Sync Support - Phoronix

Yesterday the Sway i3-inspired Wayland compositor saw tearing control support merged while today another prominent Wayland protocol has been merged...

LLVM OpenMP Runtime Lands Improvements For Intel Meteor Lake A three month old merge request finally landed in mainline LLVM Git this past week to deliver improvements initially for Intel Meteor Lake processors...

LLVM OpenMP Runtime Lands Improvements For Intel Meteor Lake - Phoronix

Linux 6.12 To Drop Old Code That Slows Down CPU Frequency Polling The Linux 6.12 kernel cycle later this year has a change coming that will impact users of the "Schedutil" CPU frequency scaling governor. This change is dropping the "LATENCY_MULTIPLIER" that has been within the kernel code the past two decades to slowdown how frequent the CPU frequency evaluation occurs. In turn the revised logic can allow for that CPUFreq frequency re-…

Linux 6.12 To Drop Old Code That Slows Down CPU Frequency Polling - Phoronix

The Linux 6.12 kernel cycle later this year has a change coming that will impact users of the 'Schedutil' CPU frequency scaling governor

Immutable Version Of Arch-Based Manjaro Linux Available For Testing For those intrigued by the likes of the likes of Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla OS, and NixOS for an immutable Linux distribution but desiring something based on Arch Linux, Manjaro Linux has an immutable variant now available for testing...

Immutable Version Of Arch-Based Manjaro Linux Available For Testing - Phoronix

For those intrigued by the likes of Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla OS, and NixOS for an immutable Linux distribution but desiring something based on Ar...