Linux 7.1-rc1 Showing Off Some Wins On AMD Ryzen Threadripper
…Aside from one main regression in a synthetic micro-benchmark appearing on multiple systems, not seeing much in the way of Linux 7.1 performance concerns thus far and seeing some nice…
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ZimaCube 2 Makes For A Nice Personal Cloud/NAS With Power Of Linux + Intel CPU Review
…This allows for the Thunderbolt 4 connectivity and a lot more performance than the many personal NAS devices on the market making use of an ARM SoC. Additionally, the ZimaCube 2 can…
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance
…This has meant much better performance than previously when hitting re-clocking challenges and the like, but most users will still be best off using the official NVIDIA driver stack, now up…
Intel FRED Appears Ready To Enable By Default With Linux 7.1
…Now, Panther Lake (Core Ultra 300 series) has been released, and benchmarking by Phoronix has shown that it provides a significant performance benefit on most workloads: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel…
Intel Xeon 6+ & Intel Ethernet E835 Launch
…With lacking AVX-512 and the higher per-core performance of P-core server CPUs like Granite Rapids, Clearwater Forest isn't focused as much on AI and HPC scenarios. The Darkmont…
Intel Posts Fourth Version Of Cache Aware Scheduling For Linux
…Intel's own performance benchmarks shown with the patch cover letter indicate nice performance gains for Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC. My own testing of prior versions of these patches have also…
AI-Driven Security Disclosures, NVIDIA Vera & Linux 7.1 Features That Made An Exciting May
…2 Comments May 2026 is now in the books after writing 275 original Linux/open-source minded news articles and another 20 featured-length benchmark articles / Linux hardware reviews. There was a…
Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily
…not suppressed by the order filter." No specific performance numbers were shared as part of the patch. The patch is out for review on the Linux kernel mailing list. Linux Kernel Adds…
BPF-Based I/O Scheduler For Linux Demonstrated
…testing performed and awaiting feedback from other upstream developers around this BPF-based I/O scheduling initiative. Those interested in these RFC patches for UFQ can find them for review on the…
GCC Establishes Working Group To Decide On AI/LLM Policy
…Stemming from ongoing questions and differing views over whether AI/LLMs belong in the area of GCC compiler development for aiding in the development of the compiler and/or code review processes…