File-systems in user-space continue to become more robust with the latest FUSE updates merged for Linux 6.12. The leading new FUSE feature for Linux 6.12 is supporting Idmapped mounts for that functionality of use from containers to systemd-homed and more. […]
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With the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend and the bulk of the new feature merges now in the tree, I’ve begun running some Linux 6.12 benchmarks. Here is an initial look at Linux 6.10 vs. 6.11 vs.
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The input subsystem updates merged this week bring a number of improvements to existing drivers while adding one new input driver. The new input driver of Linux 6.12 is for handling PixArt PS/2 touchpads and clickpads. This new “pixart_ps2” driver
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It’s been just one week since the release of ROCm 6.2.1 while today ROCm 6.2.2 was released. ROCm 6.2.2 is just a very minor update over the prior 6.2.1 point release. The only listed change is fixing an Instinct MI300X
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AMD today announced “AMD-135M” as their first small language model they are publicly releasing. AMD-135M is open-source with the training code, dataset, and weights all being open-source to help in the development of other SLMs and LLMs. AMD-135M features speculative
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Intel software engineers have released version 0.7 of Open PGL, their open-source Path Guiding Library (PGL) that can be used by 3D renderers to enjoy state-of-the-art path guiding methods for better sampling quality and efficiency. Open PGL is part of
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PostgreSQL 17 is out today as the newest annual feature release to this widely-used SQL database server. Notable with PostgreSQL 17 is having an AVX-512 optimized bit_count function along with several other heavy hitting performance optimizations. PostgreSQL 17 brings an
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BusyBox 1.37 has been released as the first feature release in one and a half years for this “Swiss Army Knife of embedded Linux” systems. With BusyBox 1.37 comes some new options, many fixes, and other enhancements. Among the many
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There’s been much speculation since this morning over a reported “severe” unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting Linux systems that carries a CVSS 9.9.9 score… The embargo has now lifted with the details on this nasty issue. There’s been
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Earlier this week in the launch-day Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids review/benchmarks I unfortunately wasn’t able to provide any CPU power consumption and performance-per-Watt benchmarks due a Linux kernel issue and the minimal time ahead of launch for testing. I’ve
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