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Servo Engine Lands Support For Rendering Inline SVG Elements, More Performance

The Servo open-source browser engine project has published their monthly status update that covers all the improvements they made over the course of August. There's been a lot of progress on this Rust-based browser engine that has a lot of potential particularly for embedded/CEF-like use-cases...

Linux 6.18 Linear RAID "md-linear" To Support Atomic Writes

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 25, 2025 9:11 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Building off the work in months prior around Device Mapper atomic write support and related infrastructure, the md-linear target for linear software RAID support will enable atomic write support with the upcoming Linux 6.18 merge window...

Wild: A Very Fast Linker Written In Rust, Aims To Outperform Mold Linker

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 25, 2025 6:09 PM EDT)
  • Groups: GNU; Story Type: News Story
While the Mold linker has been very impressive for its speed the past few years compared to the linkers out of the LLVM and GNU toolchain projects, there is a new high speed linker on the scene and it's written in Rust: meet Wild...

Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Sep 25, 2025 3:06 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Ruby; Story Type: News Story
Ruby Central is accused of ousting maintainers from core gems under pressure from Shopify Ruby Central is said to have quietly snatched control of several flagship Ruby open source projects from their long-time maintainers without their consent, following pressure from Shopify, one of its biggest backers.…

PostgreSQL 18.0 Released With Async I/O, Performance Improvements

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 25, 2025 1:34 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
PostgreSQL 18.0 is out today as the annual major feature release for this widely-used SQL database server. PostgreSQL 18 is a big one with many exciting performance optimizations and other new features...

Raspberry Pi 500+ Benchmarks: Mechanical Keyboard Computer, 16GB RAM & NVMe SSD

Last year Raspberry Pi launched the Raspberry Pi 500 for taking their Raspberry Pi keyboard computer into the Raspberry Pi 5 world. Today they are announcing the Raspberry Pi 500+ as an upgraded version of the device now with a mechanical keyboard, LED lighting, 16GB of RAM, and NVMe SSD storage.

Bcachefs goes DKMS after Torvalds' kernel banishment

Performance of new version mostly good, but future uncertain The bcachefs file system, now "externally maintained" outside the Linux kernel codebase, offers packages of its first version to be loadable on the fly.…

SUSE Announces Better Support For NVIDIA CUDA

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 25, 2025 7:28 AM EDT)
  • Groups: SUSE; Story Type: News Story
SUSE in partnership with NVIDIA today announced making the NVIDIA CUDA TOolkit officially available on all SUSE platforms...

GCC 16 Will No Longer Treat Function Multi-Versioning As Experimental On ARM64

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 25, 2025 5:57 AM EDT)
  • Groups: ARM; Story Type: News Story
Function Multi-Versioning (FMV) is the compiler feature that allows developers to specify multiple versions of the same function that can be used for optimizing execution for specific target features. For example, FMV can allow optimized functions to be called if the CPU supports AVX, AVX-512, SSE4.2, or other differing ISA capabilities. With the GCC 16 compiler release, AArch64/ARM64 now considers its FMV support to be stable and complete...

Qualcomm Announces X2 Elite SoCs - Up To 18 Cores & Up To 5.0GHz Boost Frequency

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 25, 2025 2:54 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoCs as building off their X Elite laptop SoCs that shipped last year. With the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) flagship is 18 cores with a 5.0GHz single and dual core boost frequency...

Sony DualSense Controller Audio Jack Handling Ready For Linux 6.18

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 24, 2025 11:51 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
In addition to the patches providing haptic touchpad support for Linux 6.18, another notable HID addition queued into the "hid-next" tree ahead of the imminent Linux 6.18 merge window is proper audio jack handling with the Sony PlayStation DualSense controller...

Linux Laptop Vendor MALIBAL Attempting To Pursue Made-In-USA Laptops

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 24, 2025 10:19 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Linux/Windows laptop vendor MALIBAL that caused quite a fuss last year when suggesting against supporting Coreboot and in turn blocked shipping of products to states/countries where the involved developers were located is now pursuing an initiative of made-in-America laptops. But it's going to be a lengthy journey and first they are soliciting investments to first pursue American-made keyboards and touchpads...

The Massive AI Performance Benefit With AMX On Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids"

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 24, 2025 8:48 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
Besides the support for MRDIMM-8800 memory, another distinct advantage of Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors is the continued presence of Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the impact of AMX on the Intel Xeon 6980P processors for AI inference workloads.

Zorin OS 18 beta makes Linux look like anything but Linux

Windows, macOS, Cinnamon, even iPadOS – all just a layout switch away Although Zorin doesn't aim to closely track its Ubuntu upstream, version 18 of its eponymous OS has been a long time coming.…

FFmpeg Introduces MPEG-H 3D Audio Decoding Support

The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged support for MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding...

DE25-Nano with 138K-LE Agilex 5 FPGA and Dual-Cluster ARM HPS

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Sep 24, 2025 12:47 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Intel, ARM; Story Type: News Story
The DE25-Nano is a compact development and education platform based on Intel’s Agilex 5 SoC FPGA. It follows the format of the earlier DE10-Nano board but introduces a new architecture with expanded logic resources, upgraded memory, and updated processor support. The board integrates an Agilex 5 FPGA fabric with 138K logic elements together with a […]

From Zero to Web Server: Building with Image mode for Fedora Linux & Caddy

Image mode for Fedora Linux leverages bootable containers. This technology enables OCI containers to serve as a transport and delivery mechanism for operating system content. This article will guide you through how to use that technology to quickly create a Web Server using Caddy Introduction Bootable containers leverage existing OCI container tools (like Podman and […]

SquashFS Optimization Achieves 15,277x Performance In Developer Benchmark

SquashFS developer Phillip Lougher posted a patch today just over one hundred lines of code yielding an outright massive performance gain for some operations with this compressed. read-only file-system...

New Patches Optimize EXT4 Online Defragmentation For Better Performance

A set of 13 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for optimizing the online defragmentation handling by the EXT4 kernel driver. The online defragmentation improvements for EXT4 can net a nice performance win with a very significant improvement in a variety of scenarios...

OpenSSF warns that open source infrastructure doesn't run on thoughts and prayers

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Sep 24, 2025 3:38 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Foundations say billions of downloads rely on registries running on fumes – and someone's gotta pay the bills The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has had enough of being the unpaid janitor of the world's software supply chain.…

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