Ubuntu 26.10 Reaffirms Plans For Switching To Dbus-Broker
…3 Comments Among the many new features planned for Ubuntu 26.10 is switching the default D-Bus implementation over to using the high performance Dbus-Broker drop-in replacement. Seven years…
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KTransformers Adds AVX2 MoE Support For Viable Performance On CPUs Without AMX/AVX-512
KTransformers Adds AVX2 MoE Support For Viable Performance On CPUs Without AMX/AVX-512 Written by Michael Larabel in AI on 2 April 2026 at 06:01 AM EDT. 3 Comments KTransformers…
Linux 7.1 Crypto Code Rework Enables More Optimizations By Default
…The libcrypto code in Linux 7.1 also now optimizes SHA-256 performance on Zhaoxin CPUs via the Padlock Hash Engine, dropping some old and not too useful MD5 implementations, and other…
Btrfs Change Coming For Linux 7.2 Yields Very Healthy Performance Gain
…significant improvement to the direct I/O write performance. While a big gain, technically it's a regression fix after a change mistakenly dropped the behavior several years ago. The change on…
Glibc Lands A Big Optimization For LoongArch CPUs
…performance win for large binaries by reducing transparent lookaside buffer (TLB) pressure and improving instruction fetch efficiency. Benchmarks for compiling Rust's Cargo on a Loongson 3A6000 show instruction TLB misses dropping…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland
…2 Comments KDE developers are sticking to their plans for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in dropping X11 support. Meanwhile it turns out 95% of current Plasma 6.6 users are…
Legacy NVIDIA xf86-video-nv Driver Sees First Release In Years
…It was more than a decade and a half ago when NVIDIA announced they would be dropping support for the xf86-video-nv driver with their GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" generation. Even…
LLVM's DTLTO Now More Efficiently Adding Files To The Link For Much Better Performance
…has dropped to just 157 ms. Or under Linux the patch reduces the time from ~255 ms down to just ~41 ms. Ben explained with the patch improving the performance: "The in…
Red Hat's Stratis Storage 3.9 Released With Online Encryption/Decryption/Reencryption
It's crazy to realize it has been ten years already since Red Hat abandoned their Btrfs plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and dropped it, which was a technology preview feature…
AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy
…shifting the blame to PostgreSQL, Linux 7.0 stable could lead to a significant drop for PostgreSQL performance in some scenarios until that popular database server is updated. Linux 7.0 stable…